1. Robert Nelson Wareing was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby from 1983 to 2010.
22 Facts About Bob Wareing
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Bob Wareing was born in Liverpool and attended Ranworth Square Council School in Norris Green, then Alsop High School in Liverpool.
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Bob Wareing gained an external BSc degree in Economics from the University of London in 1956 and a teacher's certificate from Bolton College of Education the following year.
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Bob Wareing was a local government officer for Liverpool Corporation from 1946 to 1948 and from 1950 to 1956.
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Bob Wareing was a lecturer at Brooklyn Technical College in Great Barr from 1957 to 1959, at Wigan and District Mining and Technical College from 1959 to 1963, at Liverpool College of Commerce on Tithebarn Street from 1963 to 1965, at Liverpool City Institute of Further Education from 1964 to 1972, and at the Central Liverpool College of Further Education from 1972 to 1983 as Deputy Head of Adult Education.
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Bob Wareing replaced Eric Heffer as the councillor for the Pirrie ward in Walton constituency.
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Bob Wareing was first elected to the House of Commons at the 1983 general election, having previously stood in Liverpool Edge Hill at the by-election in March 1979 and at the 1979 general election.
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Bob Wareing spoke during a House of Commons debate on Bosnia on 29 April 1993.
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Bob Wareing, who was Chairman of the All-Party British-Yugoslav Parliamentary Group from 1994, held talks in 1995 with the Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic.
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Bob Wareing told neither his constituency party, nor the Labour Party nationally about his intention to meet Karadzic, who was then wanted for war crimes, during his visit to the Serb controlled areas of Bosnia.
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Bob Wareing, who was accompanied by the Conservative peer Lord Harlech, was not directly criticised at the time by Tony Blair, the Labour leader, although Blair's spokesman did distance him from Bob Wareing.
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In June 1997, Bob Wareing was suspended from membership of the Labour Party on suspicion of breaking the rules governing MP's lobbying.
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Bob Wareing was found to have received illicit funds as a lobbyist from Serbian firms.
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Bob Wareing was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, and frequently rebelled against the government.
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On 31 October 2006, Bob Wareing was one of 12 Labour MPs to back Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party's call for an inquiry into the Iraq War.
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On 16 September 2007, Bob Wareing was defeated in a selection contest by Stephen Twigg, a former MP.
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Bob Wareing denounced his de-selection as the work of a "New Labour Mafia", announcing his intention to seek re-election as an independent, and resigned the Labour whip.
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However, on 4 March 2010, Bob Wareing announced he would not be standing at the general election.
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Bob Wareing married Betty Coward was born on July 1929 and on 16 August 1962.
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Bob Wareing had been admitted to hospital in London with a chest infection.
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On 29 February 2016 Bob Wareing featured on the BBC television programme Heir Hunters, a series that follows probate researchers tracking down heirs to unclaimed deceased estates.
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Since Bob Wareing's wife died in 1989 and the couple had no children, there were no immediate heirs to his estate.