Jamie Charles Cann (28 June 1946 – 15 October 2001) was a

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Labour Party politician who was the Leader of

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from 1979 to 1991, before being elected as the

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(MP) for

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at the 1992 general election, a seat he held until his death in 2001.

Early and family life

He was educated at Barton-upon-Humber Grammar School and Kesteven College of Education. He then became a primary school teacher, serving as deputy headmaster of Handford Hall Primary School in Ipswich from 1981 to 1992.

Political career

Cann voted against equalising the age of consent for same-sex relations. In 1998, he was fined £1,000, and disqualified from driving for eighteen months for

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. Renowned as an MP with acerbic wit, he spent most of his time campaigning in the constituency. As leader of Ipswich Borough Council, he was noted as a reformer and helped make Ipswich a model local authority. He died of liver disease, in October 2001, just four months after being re-elected at the 2001 general election, and following a spell in hospital in Cambridge. The subsequent by-election for Ipswich was held on 22 November and was retained for the Labour Party by the new candidate

Chris Mole Christopher David Mole (born 16 March 1958) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Ipswich from a by-election in 2001, after the death of Jamie Cann, and was re-elected in 2005. He was Parliamentary Unde ...

. A retirement home on the Ravenswood development in

was named in Cann's honour following his death.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cann, Jamie Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Ipswich Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1992–1997 UK MPs 1997–2001 UK MPs 2001–2005 1946 births 2001 deaths Councillors in Suffolk People from Barton-upon-Humber