Harry Barnes (Labour politician)
Template:Short description Template:Other people Template:BLP primary sources Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox officeholder Harold Barnes (born 22 July 1936) is an English politician who was the Labour Party Member of Parliament for North East Derbyshire from 1987 to 2005.
Life and career
Born in Easington, County Durham, Barnes was educated at Ruskin College in Oxford and the University of Hull. He was elected to Parliament in the 1987 election. Barnes stood down at the May 2005 general election, and was succeeded by Natascha Engel.
Political Positions
Barnes was considered to be on the left of the party, and as a member of the Socialist Campaign Group (SCG) he voted against Tony Blair's leadership on a number of issues.<ref>"Harry Barnes, Labour MP, North-East Derbyshire", BBC News, 17 October 2002</ref> However, unlike other members of the SCG he was not an advocate of the Troops Out Movement (from Northern Ireland). When the group split over NATO intervention in Kosovo in 1999, he supported intervention, which was the position of the government.<ref>Harry Barnes "Letter: Battles over Kosovo", The Independent, 22 April 1999</ref>
Before entering parliament, Barnes was a member of the Independent Labour Party's successor organisation, Independent Labour Publications.<ref name="BBC"/> As an MP, he joined a supporters group, Friends of the ILP.
References
External links
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- Three Score Years And Ten (Personal blog since Barnes' 70th birthday)
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- 1936 births
- Living people
- European democratic socialists
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire
- Independent Labour Party MPs
- Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- People from Easington, County Durham
- UK MPs 1987–1992
- UK MPs 1992–1997
- UK MPs 1997–2001
- UK MPs 2001–2005