Roger Leslie Berry was born on 4 July 1948 and is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Kingswood from the 1992 general election until his defeat at the 2010 general election.
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Roger Berry was born in 1948 in Huddersfield and educated at the Dalton County Primary School in Huddersfield; Huddersfield New College; the University of Bristol, where he obtained a BSc in Economics in 1970; and the University of Sussex where he was awarded a DPhil in Economics in 1977.
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Roger Berry contested Weston-super-Mare at the 1983 general election but was defeated by Jerry Wiggin.
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Roger Berry unsuccessfully fought the seat of Bristol for the European Parliament in 1984.
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Roger Berry was selected to contest the marginal seat of Kingswood at the 1987 general election but was defeated by Conservative Robert Hayward by over 4,000 votes.
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Roger Berry again contested Kingswood against Hayward at the 1992 general election and this time was victorious, winning the seat with a majority of 2,370.
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Roger Berry made his maiden speech on 10 June 1992.
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Roger Berry was a frequent "rebel" against the Labour government after 1997.
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Roger Berry was a Member of the Trade and Industry Committee.
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In December 2007 Roger Berry added his name to a petition to save the threatened Cadbury's Somerdale Factory from demolition.
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Early on in his parliamentary career, Roger Berry became known as a disability rights activist, and was Secretary and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Disability Group.
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Roger Berry lost his seat to Conservative Party candidate Chris Skidmore in the 2010 general election.
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Roger Berry married Alison Delyth in December 1996 in Pontypridd.