Tony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Hampstead

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Clarke of Hampstead
CBE
Official portrait of Lord Clarke of Hampstead crop 2.jpg
Official portrait, 2017
Member of the House of Lords
Assumed office
29 July 1998
MonarchElizabeth II
Personal details
Born
Anthony James Clarke

(1932-04-17) 17 April 1932 (age 89)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour

Anthony James Clarke, Baron Clarke of Hampstead, CBE (called Tony;[1] born 17 April 1932) is an English trade unionist and Labour Party politician.

Union roles[]

A former telegraph boy and postman, in 1979 Clarke became a full-time official of the Union of Postal Workers, which in 1980 became the Union of Communication Workers (UCW). He edited the UPW journal "The Post" in 1979, and served as the UCW's Deputy General Secretary from 1981 to 1993.

Labour Party chairmanship[]

Clarke was a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee from 1983 to 1993, and served as Chairman of The Labour Party from 1992 to 1993.

House of Lords[]

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1998 New Year Honours.[2] He was created a life peer on 29 July 1998, as Baron Clarke of Hampstead, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden.[3] He chaired the Taskforce established to investigate the causes of the disturbances in Burnley in 2001.

References[]

  1. ^ Ham & High — Lord defies fellow Labour peers & The Telegraph — Clarke of Hampstead admitted ‘terrible error’ (Accessed 8 April 2018)
  2. ^ "No. 54993". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1997. p. 8.
  3. ^ "No. 55213". The London Gazette. 3 August 1998. p. 8431.

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Political offices
Preceded by Chair of the Labour Party
1992–1993 		Succeeded by
Trade union offices
Preceded by Deputy General Secretary of the Union of Communication Workers
1982–1993 		Succeeded by
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by
The Lord Warner
 Gentlemen
Baron Clarke of Hampstead 		Followed by
The Lord Christopher


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