John Robert Cryer was born on 11 April 1964 and is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Leyton and Wanstead since the general election in May 2010.
12 Facts About John Cryer
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John Cryer was previously MP for Hornchurch from 1997 until his defeat at the 2005 general election.
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John Cryer is the Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
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John Cryer was on the left wing of the Labour Party and was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group until he resigned from the group in 2015.
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John Cryer has worked for Tribune, the Morning Star, ASLEF and the Transport and General Workers Union.
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John Cryer describes himself as a Eurosceptic, and was one of only a small number of Labour MPs who campaigned and voted for the UK to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum.
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John Cryer consistently opposed holding a second referendum on EU membership.
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John Cryer's seat was targeted by the Pro-EU Liberal Democrats in the 2019 general election for his support for Brexit.
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John Cryer voted against tuition fees and top-up fees for higher education, against cuts in lone parent benefits and against the Iraq War.
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John Cryer lost this marginal seat in 2005, before being selected to succeed Harry Cohen in Leyton and Wanstead, a safe Labour seat; he comfortably retained it for the party at the 2010 general election.
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John Cryer was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements.
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On 9 February 2015, John Cryer was elected, unopposed, to succeed Dave Watts as the Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party.