34 Facts About Jon Cruddas

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Jonathan Cruddas was born on 7 April 1962 and is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Dagenham and Rainham since 2010, and formerly for Dagenham between 2001 and 2010.

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Jon Cruddas ruled himself out of the 2010 leadership election, saying he would rather influence policy.

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In 2012, Jon Cruddas was appointed to Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet, replacing Liam Byrne as Policy Coordinator.

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Jon Cruddas was born in Helston, Cornwall to John, a sailor, and Pat.

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Jon Cruddas is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and is a visiting professor at the University of Leicester, primarily involved with the Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures.

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Jon Cruddas was selected to be the prospective parliamentary candidate for the safe Labour seat of Dagenham in 2000, after the sitting MP Judith Church announced that she would be retiring.

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Jon Cruddas was elected as the MP for Dagenham the following year at the 2001 general election, with a majority of 8,693 votes.

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Jon Cruddas rebelled against the government on a number of occasions; including on the introduction of university top-up fees, the legislation on asylum seekers, the introduction of trust schools, proposals to renew the UK Trident nuclear weapons system, and foundation trusts.

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Jon Cruddas supported both the Fourth Option for direct investment in council housing and the Trade Union Freedom Bill.

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Jon Cruddas was re-elected at the 2005 general election, but his Dagenham constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 2010 general election.

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Jon Cruddas chose to contest the newly created constituency of Dagenham and Rainham, which was notionally marginal.

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Jon Cruddas won the seat by 2,630 votes in a close-run election campaign, which was a seat that the British National Party had heavily targeted.

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On 27 September 2006, Jon Cruddas announced his intention to stand to become Deputy Leader of the Labour Party once the incumbent, John Prescott, stood down.

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Jon Cruddas said he did not want to be Deputy Prime Minister, but instead wished to act as a "transmission belt" with the grassroots of the party.

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In interviews, Jon Cruddas said that he did not want the "trappings or baubles" that would potentially come with the job of Deputy Prime Minister, such as use of the Dorneywood weekend country residence.

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Jon Cruddas accrued nominations from 49 MPs and received strong union backing, including Amicus and the Transport and General Workers' Union.

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On 24 June 2007, it was announced that Harriet Harman had won the election, although Jon Cruddas gained the highest proportion of votes in the first round.

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Jon Cruddas was ultimately eliminated in the fourth round of voting, coming third behind Harman and Alan Johnson.

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Jon Cruddas had secured the highest number of votes from members of affiliated organisation in every round before his elimination.

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In 2012, Jon Cruddas was appointed to Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet, replacing Liam Byrne as Labour Party Policy Coordinator.

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Jon Cruddas accepted the offer, saying that it had always been his wish to influence policy.

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Jon Cruddas MP is one of the Commissioners working on the project.

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Jon Cruddas narrowly retained his seat at the 2019 general election, with a hugely reduced majority, winning by 293 votes over the Conservative candidate.

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Jon Cruddas supported Lisa Nandy for Labour Leader in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election.

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Jon Cruddas expressed optimism about Labour's chances of winning this.

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Jon Cruddas is an Honorary Professor at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham.

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Jon Cruddas is writing a history of the Labour Party to celebrate the 100 year centenary of the first Labour Government in January 2024.

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In terms of his relative position within the Labour Party, newspapers have described Jon Cruddas as "left wing"; however, he has been described as "modernising centre-left", and more recently has become associated with the socially conservative Blue Labour tendency and has formed a political partnership with James Purnell.

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Jon Cruddas was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.

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In 2023 Jon Cruddas publicly revealed his opposition to ULEZ expansion that was decided by Sadiq Khan calling it "an unwelcome hit on working people".

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Jon Cruddas is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.

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Jon Cruddas married Labour activist Anna Healy in 1992; the couple have one son, Emmett Jon Cruddas.

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Jon Cruddas's wife worked as a special adviser to Harriet Harman, and had previously worked for Labour MPs Jack Cunningham, Mo Mowlam and Gus Macdonald.

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In October 2012, Jon Cruddas was banned from driving for eight weeks, for driving with no MOT or insurance.