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Anthony Wayland Wright (born 11 March 1948) is a British
Labour Party politician and author, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for
Cannock Chase
Cannock Chase (), often referred to locally as The Chase, is a mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England. The area has been designated as the Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is managed by Forestry E ...
from
1997
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to
2010
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. He was first elected in
1992
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for
Cannock and Burntwood.
Early life
Wright was educated at Desborough County Primary School, then
Kettering Grammar School (now known as the
Tresham Institute although the old building has been recently knocked down) on Windmill Avenue in
Kettering
Kettering is a market and industrial town in North Northamptonshire, England. It is located north of London and north-east of Northampton, west of the River Ise, a tributary of the River Nene. The name means "the place (or territory) of Ket ...
. Wright was educated at the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
(gaining a First class honours BSc in government in 1970),
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
(where he was a
Kennedy Scholar
Kennedy Scholarships provide full funding for up to ten British post-graduate students to study at either Harvard University or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Susan Hockfield, the sixteenth president of MIT, described the schol ...
from 1970 to 1971), and
Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...
, gaining a DPhil in 1973.
He was a lecturer in politics at the
University College of North Wales, Bangor
, former_names = University College of North Wales (1884–1996) University of Wales, Bangor (1996–2007)
, image = File:Arms_of_Bangor_University.svg
, image_size = 250px
, caption = Arms
...
from 1973 to 1975. He was a lecturer in politics from 1975 to 1992 at the
University of Birmingham
, mottoeng = Through efforts to heights
, established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...
(School of Continuing Studies), where he is now an honorary professor.
Parliamentary career
He contested the
Kidderminster
Kidderminster is a large market and historic minster town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Birmingham and north of Worcester. Located north of the River Stour and east of the River Severn, in the 2011 census, it had ...
seat in 1979. He has a keen interest in constitutional affairs, and from 1999 to 2010 was chairman of the
Public Administration Select Committee
The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee, formerly the Public Administration Select Committee, is a select committee appointed by the British House of Commons to examine the reports of the Parliamentary and Health S ...
. He also chaired the
Reform of the House of Commons Committee
The Reform of the House of Commons Committee (known informally as the Wright Committee after its chair, Tony Wright) was a Select committee of the UK Parliament. It was established in 2009 to improve the procedures and relevance of Parliament. I ...
("the Wright Committee") from 2008 to 2009. He has written or edited 21 books.
On 21 July 2008 Wright announced that, for health reasons, he would not stand again at the
2010 general election.
Return to academia
On 10 May 2010,
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
announced that Wright had been appointed Professor of Government and Public Policy. He joined the Department of Politics at
Birkbeck College
Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a public university, public research university, located in Bloomsbury, London, England, and a constituent college, member institution of the federal Universit ...
as a professorial fellow on 1 September 2010.
Tony Wright joins Department of Politics
(Birkbeck press release)
Personal life
He married Moira Phillips in 1973 in Oxford, and they have three sons, one of whom is BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...
political correspondent
Ben Wright. He has had
leukaemia
Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ' ...
.
Works
*''Restating the State? '' (Blackwell, 2004)
*''British Politics: A Very Short Introduction'' (Oxford Paperbacks, 2002)
*''The British Political Process: An Introduction'' edited by Tony Wright (Routledge, 1999)
*''The New Social Democracy'' edited by Tony Wright and
Andrew Gamble
Andrew Michael Gamble (born 15 August 1947) is a British scholar of politics. He was Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Queens' College from 2007 to 2014. He was a member of the Department of Politics at the Univ ...
(Blackwell, 1999)
*''The People's Party: the History of the Labour Party'' with
Matt Carter (Thames and Hudson, 1997)
*''Why Vote Labour?'' (Penguin, 1997)
*
Who Wins Dares: New Labour – New Politics' (Fabian Society, 1997)
*''Socialisms: Old and New'' (Routledge, 1996)
*''Power to the Back Benches? Restoring the Balance Between Government and Parliament'' by
Stuart Weir, Tony Wright (Charter 88, 1996)
*''Values, Visions and Voices'' edited with
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 ...
(Mainstream, 1995)
*
Beyond the Patronage State' (Fabian Society, 1995)
*''Contemporary Political Ideologies'' edited by
Roger Eatwell
Roger Eatwell is a British academic currently an Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Bath.
Since the late 1970s, Eatwell has engaged in research in fascism and populism. He defines fascism as a syncretic ideology, which could at ...
, Anthony Wright (Pinter, 1993)
*''Citizens and Subjects'' (Routledge, 1993)
*''Political Thought Since 1945: Philosophy, Science, Ideology'' edited by
Leonard Tivey, Anthony Wright (Edward Elgar, 1992)
*''Consuming Public Services'' by
Nicholas Deakin, Anthony Wright (Routledge, 1990)
*''Matters of Death and Life: a Study of Bereavement Support in NHS Hospitals in England'' (King's Fund, 1988)
*''R.H. Tawney'' (Manchester University, 1987)
*''Socialisms: Theories and Practices'' (Oxford University Press, 1986)
*
Socialism and Decentralisation' (Fabian Society, 1984)
*''Worlds of Labour: Essays in Birmingham Labour History'' edited by Anthony Wright,
Richard Shackleton (University of Birmingham, 1983)
*''G.D.H.Cole and Socialist Democracy'' (Oxford University, 1979)
References
External links
Staff profileat University College London
www.tonywright.org– official site
Tony Wright photos on Flickr*
ttps://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/tony_wright/cannock_chase TheyWorkForYou.com – Tony Wright MPBBC Politics page*
News items
Announcing his leukaemia in October 2004
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Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1992–1997
UK MPs 1997–2001
UK MPs 2001–2005
UK MPs 2005–2010
1948 births
Living people
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
Harvard College alumni
Kennedy Scholarships
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Academics of University College London
Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Chairs of the Fabian Society