1. Greg Mulholland was first elected at the 2005 general election, winning the seat from Labour and was re-elected with an increased majority at the 2010 general election, and with a reduced majority at the 2015 general election.
28 Facts About Greg Mulholland
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Greg Mulholland served as a Liberal Democrat spokesman for Health, Schools and International Development.
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Greg Mulholland then worked in marketing for five years, including two years spent in Edinburgh, working on several national promotional campaigns.
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Greg Mulholland had a long-standing interest and involvement in international development, trade justice and debt campaigns.
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Greg Mulholland was an active member of the campaigning groups Trade Injustice and Debt Action Leeds and Catholic Aid For Overseas Development.
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Greg Mulholland was the Liberal Democrat group's spokesperson on the Leeds Supertram, approval for which was turned down in 2006.
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Greg Mulholland was elected to Parliament at the 2005 general election for the constituency of Leeds North West.
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Greg Mulholland was a member of the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee.
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Greg Mulholland was a member of 27 all-party parliamentary groups including 4 as chair or co-chair and 7 as vice chair.
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Greg Mulholland did have two claims rejected: for a cot and playpen, then later to have photographs reframed.
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In November 2005, Greg Mulholland proposed the Sale of Green Belt Land Bill to prevent 'land banking'.
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Greg Mulholland is one of three Liberal Democrat MPs to have supported MP Nadine Dorries's attempts to reduce the number of weeks at which a woman can legally have an abortion.
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Greg Mulholland took part in a community campaign in his constituency against further cuts at the Wharfedale Hospital in Otley.
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Greg Mulholland called a public meeting at which he presented a 5,000-signature petition to Parliament after one ward was closed.
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Greg Mulholland campaigned alongside other Leeds MPs for a new children's hospital in the city, questioning the then Prime Minister Tony Blair over the issue at Prime Minister's Questions.
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Greg Mulholland is an active campaigner for Save the Pub, an all party parliamentary group which aims to preserve and protect the Great British pub.
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Greg Mulholland set up a rugby league team called "Political Animals", based at Westminster, to bring greater prominence and attention to rugby league within Parliament.
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Greg Mulholland is a Vice President of the Leeds Rugby Foundation charity.
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Greg Mulholland was criticised for calling a constituent a "disingenuous, manipulative, illiberal shit" over Twitter in response to the constituent's comments on his vote in favour of the Marriage Act 2013.
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Greg Mulholland has tabled Early Day Motions on a variety of subjects including support for small breweries, winter fuel payments for the severely disabled under 60, and against biometric data collection in schools.
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In 2008, Greg Mulholland was recorded describing health minister Ivan Lewis as an "arsehole" after Lewis refused to let him intervene in a Westminster Hall debate on hospice funding.
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Greg Mulholland has been active in seeking to expose companies which wish to move out of the Leeds area to reduce costs.
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In September 2018 Greg Mulholland announced that he would not be standing for election to Parliament in the next general election.
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Greg Mulholland described the shock of losing his seat in the unexpected 2017 election, when "just eight weeks later I had lost my job, my career, our family income and actually to a great extent, my identity".
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Greg Mulholland is establishing himself as a "specialist campaigning and public affairs consultant" and political campaigning would be incompatible with that role.
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Greg Mulholland did not rule out the possibility of standing for Parliament again, but "only if we see real change in British politics".
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Greg Mulholland would devote more time to his band Summercross, whose album My Northern Heart was nearing completion.
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The songs refer to topics including the construction of the Bramhope Tunnel, the suicide of Big Country singer Stuart Adamson, the campaign for the restoration of hire boats on the River Wharfe at Otley, and Greg Mulholland's campaigning work for community pubs.