1. John Spellar served as a minister in various departments between 1997 and 2005, and as Comptroller of the Household in the Whips' Office between 2008 and 2010.
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John Spellar was Chairman of the Oxford University Labour Club in 1967.
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John Spellar was the Political Officer of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union from 1969 to 1992, and was a speech-writer for general secretaries Frank Chapple and Eric Hammond.
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John Spellar was a councillor in the London Borough of Bromley between 1970 and 1974.
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John Spellar stood for the constituency of Bromley at the 1970 general election as Labour's youngest candidate.
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John Spellar was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1982 Birmingham Northfield by-election but lost at the 1983 general election to the Conservative candidate, Roger King.
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John Spellar returned to the House of Commons in the 1992 general election becoming the MP for Warley West with a majority of 5,472, and was appointed an opposition whip.
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At the 1997 general election, John Spellar was elected as MP for the new Warley constituency, after Warley West had been abolished in a boundary review.
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John Spellar left the front benches in 2005, but in 2008, he rejoined the government as a whip and served until Labour entered opposition in May 2010.
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In November 2015, John Spellar he suggested that Jeremy Corbyn should resign as Labour leader over the question of whether to conduct air strikes on ISIL in Syria.
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In November 2017, John Spellar was appointed as a member of the UK parliament delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
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On 27 May 2024, John Spellar announced he would step down at the 2024 general election, after having served as an MP for over 32 years.
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John Spellar was created Baron Spellar, of Smethwick in the County of the West Midlands, on 12 August 2024.
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John Spellar is a Director of the centre-right Labour grouping Labour First, and sits on the Advisory Council of the Henry Jackson Society, a prominent neoliberal and neoconservative foreign policy think tank.
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John Spellar is a member of the Council on Geostrategy Advisory Board.
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John Spellar was married to dentist Anne Wilmot from 1981 until her death in 2003.