John Eugene Joseph Dromey (29 September 1948 – 7 January 2022) was a British politician and
trade unionist
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who served as
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Birmingham Erdington
Birmingham Erdington is a parliamentary constituency in Birmingham, England, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2022 by Paulette Hamilton of the Labour Party.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1918†...
from
2010
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until his death. A member of the
Labour Party, he was deputy general secretary of
Unite
Unite may refer to:
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* ''Unite'' (A Friend in London album), 2013 album by Danish band A Friend in London
* ''Unite'' (Kool & the Gang album), 1993
* ''Unite'' (The O.C. Supertones album), 2005
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from 2003 to 2010.
Dromey joined the Labour
frontbench
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, under leader
Ed Miliband
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, as
Shadow Minister for Housing
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from 2010 until 2013 when he became
Shadow Minister for Policing. He remained in post after
Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. On the political left of the Labour Party, Corbyn describes himself as a socialist ...
's
election as leader until his
resignation in June 2016, but returned to the frontbench as
Shadow Minister for Labour in October 2016. He was appointed
Shadow Minister for Pensions in 2018, and continued to serve in the role under
Keir Starmer
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until 2021, when he joined the shadow
Cabinet Office
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team as
Shadow Paymaster General
His Majesty's Paymaster General or HM Paymaster General is a ministerial position in the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom. The incumbent Paymaster General is Jeremy Quin MP.
History
The post was created in 1836 by the merger of the posi ...
. He was later appointed Shadow Immigration minister in the December reshuffle, serving in the role for a month before his sudden death in January 2022.
Prior to his election to Parliament, he was deputy general secretary of the
Transport and General Workers' Union
The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland – where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU) to differentiate its ...
and
Treasurer of the Labour Party
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.
Dromey was married to long-serving MP
Harriet Harman
Harriet Ruth Harman (born 30 July 1950) is a British politician and solicitor who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Camberwell and Peckham, formerly Peckham, since 1982. A member of the Labour Party, she has served in various Cabi ...
, former
deputy Labour Party leader and cabinet minister.
Early life and career
Dromey was born on 29 September 1948 to Irish parents in
Brent,
Middlesex
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, and raised in
Kilburn, London
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. He was educated at
Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School
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, Holland Park, which was a grammar school at the time.
As a trade unionist
In the early 1970s, while working at the Brent Law Centre, Dromey was elected as chairman of his branch of the
Transport and General Workers' Union
The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland – where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU) to differentiate its ...
(TGWU) and as a delegate to the Brent Trades Council. In 1973 he took a leading role in planning the occupation of
Centre Point
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,
along with prominent Housing and
Direct Action
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campaigners
Jim Radford
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The first song Radfo ...
and Ron Bailey. This high-profile event was designed to highlight and publicise the perceived injustice of London's most prominent (and tallest) building development – which included a number of luxury flats – remaining empty for consecutive years while tens of thousands of people languished on housing waiting lists across the capital. The event was postponed in 1973 but eventually carried out successfully in January the following year.
Dromey built a reputation as an effective speaker and organiser in the
trade union movement
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and through his involvement with Brent Trades Council and the
Greater London Association of Trades Councils, who sent him as a delegate to the South East Regional Council of the
Trades Union Congress
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.
Dromey attended the 1976 "
Luanda Trial
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Background
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" "Mercenaries' Trial" in
Luanda
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,
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, as an "observer".
As secretary of the local Trades Council he also had a prominent role in supporting the
strike at the Grunwick film processing laboratory which lasted from 1976 to 1978. The mostly-female Asian workforce at Grunwick went on strike to demand that company boss George Ward recognise their union; instead, Ward dismissed the strikers, leading to a two-year-long confrontation involving
mass picketing and some violence. The strike was ultimately unsuccessful.
Dromey was appointed deputy general secretary of the TGWU, having lost the 2003 election for general secretary to
Tony Woodley
Anthony Woodley, Baron Woodley (born 2 January 1948) is a British trade unionist who was the Joint- General Secretary of Unite, a union formed through the merger of Amicus and the Transport and General Workers' Union, from 2007 to 2011. Despite ...
by a wide margin.
Controversies
Links between NCCL and PIE
Dromey was a member of the executive committee of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL; now
Liberty
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In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...
) in the 1970s during a period when the
Paedophile Information Exchange
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(PIE) had taken out corporate membership of NCCL. Dromey denied supporting PIE or its aims, stating that he actively opposed the links between the two groups and voted for the expulsion of the group at the NCCL Annual General Meeting.
Cash for Peerages
On 15 March 2006, during the
Cash for Peerages
The Cash-for-Honours scandal (also known as Cash for Peerages, Loans for Lordships, Loans for Honours or Loans for Peerages) was a political scandal in the United Kingdom in 2006 and 2007 concerning the connection between political donations an ...
scandal, Dromey said he was unaware – despite being the
Labour Party treasurer
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Although a post with little power, in the past, it was often hotly contested by people who later became big names in British politics ...
– of £3.5 million loaned to the Labour Party in 2005 by three persons who were subsequently nominated for
life peer
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ages (
Chai Patel
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,
Sir David Garrard, and
Barry Townsley
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). Loans made on commercial terms, as was claimed to be the case here, are not subject to reporting requirements to the
Electoral Commission
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.
Dromey stated publicly that neither he nor Labour's elected
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* National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, in South Africa
* Australian Labor Party National Executive
* Nationa ...
(NEC) chairman,
Sir Jeremy Beecham, had knowledge of or involvement in the loans, and that he had become aware of them when he read about them in the newspapers. Dromey stated that he was regularly consulted about conventional bank loans. As well as announcing his own investigation, he called on the Electoral Commission to investigate the issue of political parties taking out loans from non-commercial sources. His report was discussed by the NEC on 21 March 2006.
Labour Party donations scandal
Dromey was caught up in a further financial scandal in 2007, as he was responsible for party finances, which included more than £630,000 in illegal donations from
David Abrahams. Dromey again claimed to know nothing of the donations, with critics wondering why he had not examined the issue more closely.
Harriet Harman
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, Dromey's wife, was also caught up in the affair, as her staff had solicited and accepted donations totalling £5,000.
Parliamentary career
![Frank Sharry and Jack Dromey MP (6357735845)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Frank_Sharry_and_Jack_Dromey_MP_%286357735845%29.jpg)
Dromey first sought to stand for Labour at the
1997 general election but failed to make the shortlist for the
Pontefract and Castleford constituency.
Dromey again sought a
safe seat
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in 2007, when there were plans for a general election to be called.
Peter Watt
Peter Martin Watt (born 20 July 1969) was the General Secretary of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom from January 2006 until he resigned in November 2007 as a result of the Donorgate affair. Watt was then a member of the National Society ...
, the then
Labour general secretary, later revealed that
Unite the Union
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had given £1 million in donations on the assumption of Dromey gaining nomination for the safe seat of
Wolverhampton North East
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.
In August 2009, it was revealed that senior Labour figures thought Dromey was likely to be selected in the
Leyton and Wanstead constituency for the
2010 general election. The chair of Leyton and Wanstead
Constituency Labour Party
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said he would be "somewhat aggrieved" were Dromey selected and Dromey's wife Harriet Harman had campaigned for
all-women shortlists
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in safe seats.
The party's candidates for the constituency were due to be announced in November 2009, though this was delayed for at least two months, with ''
The Daily Telegraph
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It was fo ...
'' alleging that the announcement was going to be made at the last possible minute so Dromey could be imposed as the candidate using emergency rules. It was revealed in January 2010 that the seat would not be subject to an all-woman shortlist, but the Constituency Labour Party subsequently selected former
Hornchurch
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MP
John Cryer
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as its candidate on 27 February.
In February 2010,
Siôn Simon
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, Labour MP for
Birmingham Erdington
Birmingham Erdington is a parliamentary constituency in Birmingham, England, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2022 by Paulette Hamilton of the Labour Party.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1918†...
since 2001, announced his intention to stand down at the imminent general election. The NEC of the Labour Party swiftly announced that Birmingham Erdington would have an open shortlist. Dromey was confirmed to have made that shortlist. On 27 February 2010, it was confirmed that Dromey had been selected as the Labour Party candidate for Birmingham Erdington. He was elected on 6 May 2010.
In November 2011,
John Lyon, the
Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
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The current commissioner is Kathryn Stone.
Duties
The commissioner is i ...
, launched an investigation into allegations that Dromey had failed to declare thousands of pounds in salary. Dromey's entry in the register of Members' interests stated he had declined his salary from Unite since entering Parliament. However, in October 2011 he changed his entry to state "Between the General Election and 30 October 2010, I received £27,867 in salary." Dromey apologised to the House of Commons on 19 January 2012, in relation to this mistake.
He supported
Owen Smith
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in the failed attempt to replace
Jeremy Corbyn
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in the
2016 Labour leadership election.
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Dromey retained his seat in the
2019 general election; although his majority fell to ten percentage points, he won more than 50 per cent of the vote.
In January 2021, Dromey moved to the Shadow Cabinet Office team, led by
Rachel Reeves
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Born in Lewis ...
, as
Shadow Paymaster General
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History
The post was created in 1836 by the merger of the posi ...
. In December 2021, during the
reshuffle of the shadow ministerial team, he became
Shadow Minister for Immigration
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. However, as he died a month later, he only made one parliamentary speech in this capacity in a
Westminster Hall
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debate on the Afghan resettlement scheme just the day before his death.
Personal life and death
Dromey married Harriet Harman in 1982 in the
Borough of Brent
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, after meeting her on the
picket line
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A variant of a high l ...
of the Grunwick dispute in 1977; Harman was legal advisor to the Grunwick Strike Committee. They had three children: Harry (born February 1983), Joseph (born November 1984) and Amy (born January 1987), who has taken Harman's surname. Labour colleague
Patricia Hewitt
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is godmother to one of their children. Their son Joe was a councillor in the
London Borough of Lewisham
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between 2014 and 2021. They had a house in
Suffolk
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, in addition to a home in
Herne Hill
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, south London.
The couple decided to send their children to selective schools, the subject of negative comments at the time. Dromey served for ten years on the executive of the
National Council for Civil Liberties
Liberty, formerly, and still formally, called the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), is an advocacy group and membership organisation based in the United Kingdom, which challenges unjust laws, protects civil liberties and promotes hu ...
, a pressure group for which Harman worked as legal officer. Dromey, whose parents were from counties
Cork
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** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
***Wine cork
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** Metropolitan Cork, also known as G ...
and
Tipperary
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Places
*County Tipperary, a county in Ireland
**North Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Nenagh
**South Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Clonmel
*Tipperary (town), County Tipperary's na ...
, was a vocal advocate for Irish issues in Parliament, and in his Birmingham constituency, and was always present at the city's annual St Patrick's Day parade.
Dromey died from heart failure at his flat in Birmingham on 7 January 2022, at the age of 73.
Former prime minister
Tony Blair
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described Dromey as a "stalwart of the Labour and trade union movement", while
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Chance ...
said he had lost "a friend, colleague and great humanitarian who never stopped fighting for social justice". The flags of Parliament were lowered to half-mast, and House of Commons speaker
Lindsay Hoyle
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said MPs were "all in disbelief that the life-force that was Jack Dromey has died".
His funeral was held on 31 January 2022 at
St Margaret's Church, Westminster. Those in attendance included Hoyle, Blair, Brown,
Ed Balls
Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British broadcaster, writer, economist, professor and former politician who served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from 2007 to 2010, and as Shadow Chancellor of the Exc ...
,
Andrew Marr
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, and MPs
Ed Miliband
Edward Samuel "Ed" Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero since 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband ...
,
Lisa Nandy
Lisa Eva Nandy (born 9 August 1979) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010.
N ...
and
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob William Rees-Mogg (born 24 May 1969) is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset since 2010. Now a backbencher, he served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council ...
. Speaking at the service, Brown said that Dromey "made and remade history".
References
External links
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Jack Dromey MPBirmingham Labour, Erdington
Jack Dromeyat Erdington Labour Party
;Profiles
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Democracy Live , Your representatives , Jack DromeyJack Dromey– profile at guardian.com
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