Dennis Skinner

Biography:

Dennis Skinner was re-elected MP for Bolsover on May 7th 2015 with 22542 votes, taking 51.2% of the vote.

Skinner’s politics have been influenced by his background. The Bolsover area was formerly dominated by coal mining, and Skinner began his working life as a miner, although he won a place at Tupton Grammar School (now called Tupton Hall School) when he was 11. He was a miner from 1949-70, first at Parkhouse Colliery in Clay Cross until 1962 when it closed, and then at Glapwell Colliery near Chesterfield. He joined the Labour Party in 1956. He later attended Ruskin College in Oxford in 1967 after doing a preparatory course run by the NUM at the University of Sheffield. He was a councillor on Derbyshire County Council from 1964-70, and a Clay Cross councillor from 1960-70. He became leader of the Derbyshire area of the National Union of Mineworkers between 1966 and 1970.

He was chairman of the Labour Party between 1988 and 1989, and has sat on the National Executive Committee in most years since 1978. He identifies with the left of his party, is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group.

Constituency: Bolsover

Constituency Address: 1 Elmhurst Close, South Normanton, Derbyshire

Constituency Tel: 020 7219 5107

Date of Birth: 11 February 1932

Email: skinnerd@parliament.uk

Party: Labour

Westminster Address: House of Commons, London , SW1A 0AA

Westminster Tel: 020 7219 5107

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