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Bill Miller (Scotland)
Bill Miller (born 22 July 1954), is a former Labour Party (UK), Labour Member of the European Parliament, MEP representing Glasgow (European Parliament constituency), Glasgow and Scotland (European Parliament constituency), Scotland. Personal life Miller was brought up in Gartocharnand was educated at Paisley, Renfrewshire, Paisley Technical College and Kingston Polytechnic. He was a surveying, chartered surveyor by profession and is married with one son and one daughter. Political life Miller was chairman of the Glasgow Labour Party between 1984 and 1987 as well as acting as an election agent and was assistant secretary of the Glasgow branch of Nalgo between 1980 and 1986. He served as a Strathclyde, Strathclyde Regional Councillor (from 1984 to 1994), chairman, chairing the council's economic development, Economic and Industrial Development Committee. He was elected to the European Parliament]He represented the Glasgow constituency from 1994 to 1999 and the Scotland constitue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The Labour Party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. In all general elections since 1922, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition. There have been six Labour prime ministers and thirteen Labour ministries. The party holds the annual Labour Party Conference, at which party policy is formulated. The party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the 19th century. It overtook the Liberal Party to become the main opposition to the Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming two minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labour served in the wartime coalition of 1940–1945, after which Clement Attlee's Labour government established the National Health Service and expanded the welfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |