1. David Hallam, is a British Labour Party politician and writer.
33 Facts About David Hallam
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David Hallam is a trustee of his local church, a Life Member of the National Union of Journalists, a Patron of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, an Honorary Vice President of the Severn Valley Railway Holdings plc, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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David Hallam represents the West Midlands on the National Members' Council of the Co-op Group, the UK's largest ethical retailer.
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David Hallam contributes a weekly television and radio review column to the Methodist Recorder.
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David Hallam has used his reviews as the basis of a book "The Year The Queen Died: a media diary of 2022".
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David Hallam spoke with an East London, or Cockney, accent and remarked in later life that when speaking through interpretation at the European Parliament it was the first occasion that the social nuances of his accent did not matter.
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David Hallam campaigned in the 1975 European Referendum in Smethwick, where he lived.
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David Hallam stood unsuccessfully for the Labour Party in Solihull in the 1979 General Election.
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David Hallam set up a publicity business, becoming a Methodist Local Preacher.
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David Hallam has worked for several organisations including the Birmingham City Council, the National Children's Home, the National Health Service and the Ceramic and Allied Trades Union.
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David Hallam is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and the National Union of Journalists.
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In 1984 David Hallam confronted a gunman during a shooting incident at the headquarters of the National Children's Home in Highbury, London, where he worked.
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David Hallam first stood for the European Parliament in 1984 for the Shropshire and Stafford constituency; he stood again in 1989 and was elected on revised boundaries in 1994 for what was widely held to be a safe Conservative seat.
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David Hallam was on this committee for the whole of his mandate and drafted several reports or opinions on its behalf.
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David Hallam was on this committee for the first half of his mandate and drafted two opinions on its behalf:.
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David Hallam's constituency benefited from Objective 5B, Objective 2, and Leader II regional funds.
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David Hallam was a member on this then newly formed committee to assist in the accession of Slovakia to the European Union.
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David Hallam made it clear that his top priority would be to encourage peace and trade.
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David Hallam was a substitute member, standing in for colleague John Hume at the 21st, 24th, 27th and 28th sessions.
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David Hallam was President of the members' prayer breakfast which met each month when the Parliament convened in Strasbourg.
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David Hallam met separately with the Northern Irish politician and cleric Ian Paisley regularly at a time when this was seen to be politically risky.
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In July 1996 David Hallam flew to Belfast to discuss the Drumcree conflict with Ian Paisley in a bid to avert serious bloodshed.
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David Hallam was one of many Labour Party members who opposed Labour leader Tony Blair's re-writing of the common ownership Clause IV in the Labour Party constitution.
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David Hallam set out his views in a paper that was widely circulated within the Labour Party entitled Common Ownership and Social Justice which drew heavily on Hallam's Christian Socialist beliefs.
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David Hallam clashed with Tony Blair himself when Blair met the European Parliamentary Labour Party.
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David Hallam was placed in fifth place on Labour's list for the West Midlands but the party was only allocated three seats following the 1999 European Parliamentary Elections.
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Shortly after his election David Hallam took up the case of Harold "Ginger" Williams who had been convicted of the murder of Dorothy Margaret Davies in her house on Whitern Way, Hereford in January 1977.
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David Hallam's staff reviewed the available evidence and submitted a dossier to the Criminal Law Review Commission who then referred the case to the Court of Appeal.
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When David Hallam was elected as an MEP in 1994 he was in the same congregation at City Road Methodist Church, Birmingham as hymn writer Martin Leckebusch.
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David Hallam's book Taking on the Men: the first women parliamentary candidates 1918 provided the basis for the December edition of ITV's political programme in the Midlands, Central Lobby.
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David Hallam appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain in July 2016 to speak about City Road Methodist Church, Birmingham becoming a Pokemon Go gym.
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David Hallam tells the story of a small church that had a great impact in its neighbourhood.
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David Hallam had a difficult marriage, lost a beloved daughter in infancy and lived in a community at Great Barr where hostility to her Methodist faith was never far from the surface.