14 Facts About Stan Orme

Stan Orme was a Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1997, and served as a cabinet minister in the 1970s.

Stan Orme was educated at a technical school, which he left in 1938 to become an instrument maker's apprentice.

Stan Orme joined the RAF in 1942, becoming a bomber-navigator, serving in Canada and Egypt.

Stan Orme was demobilised in 1947 as a warrant officer.

Stan Orme first stood for Parliament in Stockport South at the 1959 general election, when he lost to the incumbent Member of Parliament, Conservative candidate Harold M Steward.

Stan Orme was elected as MP for Salford West at the 1964 general election.

When Labour returned to office at the February 1974 general election, Stan Orme was installed at Stormont as Minister of State for Northern Ireland.

Stan Orme made an impression in this role, before moving to the Department of Health and Social Security in March 1976.

Stan Orme joined the Shadow cabinet in 1979 as chief health and social security spokesman, before later moving on to hold the Industry and Energy portfolios until 1987.

Stan Orme served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1987 to 1992.

Stan Orme retired from the House of Commons at the 1997 general election, and he was created a life peer as Baron Orme, of Salford in the County of Greater Manchester on 21 October 1997.

Stan Orme made several unsuccessful attempts to be elected to Labour's National Executive Committee, without breaking through.

Lord Stan Orme died 22 days after his birthday, on 27 April 2005.

In December 2019, a Daily Telegraph investigation reported that Stan Orme had been involved in handing confidential information to Czech communist spies.