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Eric Moonman
Eric Moonman (29 April 1929 – 22 December 2017) was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour politician. He was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Billericay (UK Parliament constituency), Billericay (1966–70) and Basildon (UK Parliament constituency), Basildon (1974–79). Moonman was educated at Liverpool University, Liverpool and Manchester University, Manchester Universities and became a senior research fellow in the Department of Management Science at Manchester University. He was a councillor on Metropolitan Borough of Stepney, Stepney Borough Council, serving as Council Leader until 1965, and on the London Borough of Tower Hamlets from 1964. Moonman contested Chigwell (UK Parliament constituency), Chigwell in 1964 without success and was elected for Billericay in the 1966 United Kingdom general election, 1966 general election, losing the seat four years later. He then was elected for Basildon (UK Parliament constituency), Basildon at the Febr ... [...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] |