Ian Lavery

Not to be confused with Ian Levy.

Ian Lavery
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Chair of the Labour Party
In office
14 June 2017 – 5 April 2020
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byTom Watson
Succeeded byAngela Rayner
Labour Party Co-National Campaign Coordinator
In office
10 February 2017 – 5 April 2020
Serving with Andrew Gwynne
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byJon Trickett
Succeeded byAngela Rayner
Shadow Minister without Portfolio
In office
9 February 2017 – 5 April 2020
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byAndrew Gwynne
Succeeded byConor McGinn (2021)
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office
In office
7 October 2016 – 9 February 2017
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byTom Watson
Succeeded byJon Trickett
Shadow Minister for Trade Unions and Civil Society
In office
18 September 2015 – 7 October 2016
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byLisa Nandy (Civil Society)
Succeeded bySteve Reed (Civil Society)
Member of Parliament
for Blyth and Ashington
Wansbeck (2010–2024)
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byDenis Murphy
Majority9,173 (22.7%)
President of the National Union of Mineworkers
In office
2002–2010
Preceded byArthur Scargill
Succeeded byNicky Wilson
Personal details
Born (1963-01-06) 6 January 1963 (age 61)
Ashington, Northumberland, England
Political partyLabour
Other political
affiliations		Socialist Campaign Group
Spouse
Hilary Baird
​
(m. 1986)​
Children2
EducationNew College Durham
Websitewww.ianlavery.co.uk

Ian Lavery (born 6 January 1963) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Blyth and Ashington from 2024. He was previously the MP for Wansbeck from 2010 to 2024. Lavery served as the chair of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn from 2017 to 2020, and was the president of the National Union of Mineworkers from 2002 to 2010. He is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus.[1]

Early life and education

Ian Lavery was born on 6 January 1963 in Newcastle upon Tyne to parents John Robert Lavery and his wife, Patricia.[2] After leaving East School, Lavery began a Youth Training Scheme before working in the construction industry. Following a recruitment campaign by the National Coal Board, he started work at the Lynemouth colliery in January 1980.[3] In July 1980, Lavery started a mining craft apprenticeship, transferring to Ellington Colliery in 1981 and attended New College Durham, receiving a Higher National Certificate in mining engineering.[2][4]

Early political career

In 1986, Lavery was elected onto the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) committee at Ellington Colliery as compensation secretary. Later, he was voted on to the Northumberland Executive Committee, and then on to the North East Area Executive Committee. He has said that because of his union activity, he was barred by management from completing his Higher National Diploma qualification:

I was the only one in the whole of the North East Area who had completed the HNC who wasn't given that opportunity. I went to see the manager, not that I would have gone by the way, and he said that they didn't think I would be interested. I asked him if he had thought to ask me, and he said no, not really, and he was smiling as he said it.[5]

After serving as first cabinet chair of Wansbeck District Council, Lavery was appointed general secretary of the Northumberland area through the NUM.[6] In 1992, Lavery stood for the national executive committee of the NUM. In the subsequent ballot, he was elected in the first round having gained more than 50% of the vote. When Arthur Scargill stood down as NUM president in August 2002, Lavery was elected unopposed to replace him.[7]

Parliamentary career

First term (2010–2015)

In February 2010 Lavery became the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party for Wansbeck.[8][9] At the 2010 general election, Lavery was elected as MP for Wansbeck with 45.9% of the vote and a majority of 7,031.[10]

He was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to deputy leader Harriet Harman, but resigned in 2012 after breaking the party whip by levelling an amendment to exempt prison staff and psychiatric workers from a general public sector increase in the pension age to 68.[11] In December 2012, he said that miners with criminal charges related to the Battle of Orgreave should have them struck.[12] In the same month, he said in Parliament that he had been given a copy of a suicide note written by a constituent who had died by suicide after being told he was no longer eligible for state support.[13]

In March 2014, Lavery posed with one of his sons who had blackened his face to look like Michael Jackson. According to the Daily Mail, some of Lavery's constituents said they found it offensive.[14]

Second term (2015–2017)

At the 2015 general election, Lavery was re-elected as MP for Wansbeck with an increased vote share of 50% and an increased majority of 10,881.[15][16] After Ed Miliband resigned as leader of the Labour Party, Lavery supported Andy Burnham in the subsequent leadership election which was won by Jeremy Corbyn.[17] In September 2015, Corbyn appointed him shadow minister for trade unions and civil society.

In 2016, it was reported that Lavery had received £165,387 from the NUM, the union he had run.[18] A union fund provided him a loan of £72,500 to buy a house in 1994, which was written off in 2003 when Lavery was NUM president. He kept £18,000 returned by an endowment fund he had paid into to repay the cost of the house, and received £89,887.83 in termination payments from the union. He paid back £15,000 of the redundancy payment. Allegations of impropriety were examined by the Trades Union Certification Officer, who in 2017 found that there were no documents detailing the process or decision about Lavery's redundancy, so no investigation followed.[19]

Lavery was appointed as Labour's national campaign co-ordinator, serving jointly with Andrew Gwynne in February 2017.[20][21]

Third and fourth terms (2017–2024)

At the snap 2017 general election, Lavery was again re-elected, with an increased vote share of 57.3% and a decreased majority of 10,435.[22] In June 2017, Lavery was appointed to the role of chair of the Labour Party.[23] In the same month, he was criticised for saying that Labour was "too broad a church".[24]

In December 2018, Lavery raised in parliament the high insurance premiums of his constituents living near the River Wansbeck in the wake of the 2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods.[25] In the same month, he opposed Jeremy Corbyn's move to support a second referendum on Brexit, reportedly saying that if Labour supported a second referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union, the party would lose the next general election.[26]

At the 2019 general election, Lavery was again re-elected, with a decreased vote share of 42.3% and a decreased majority of 814.[27]

Lavery in 2017

In January 2021, Lavery was criticised after he questioned why anyone would have faith in the COVID-19 vaccine and expressed concern about the time it took to approve the vaccine. In a statement, Lavery said that his words had been taken out of context.[28]

On 24 February 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lavery was one of 11 Labour MPs threatened with losing the party whip after they signed a statement by the Stop the War Coalition which questioned the legitimacy of NATO and accused the military alliance of "eastward expansion". All 11 MPs subsequently removed their signatures after being threatened with suspension from the party.[29]

He has gained the seat in the constituency of Blyth and Ashington, being the 2nd confirmed Labour seat in the 2024 General Election

2024 to present

He was elected MP for Blyth and Ashington at the 2024 general election.[30]

Personal life

Lavery married Hilary Baird in 1986, aged 23, at the Holy Sepulchre Church in Ashington. The couple have two sons, Ian Junior, born 1988 and Liam, born 1993. Liam is a town councillor for the college ward of Ashington and has been an activist in the Labour Party since his early teens.[31]

Lavery is a trustee of CISWO in the North East area, Northumberland Aged Mineworkers' Homes Association, Woodhorn Colliery Museum and Buzz Learning Disability; he is a patron of Headway for South East Northumberland and Wansbeck Disability Forum. He is also chair and trustee of Pitmen Painters, which reached international acclaim following the release of the West End play of the same name, and which follows a story about the formation of the Northumberland-based organisation.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Socialist Campaign Group Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Lavery, Ian (born 6 January 1963), MP (Lab) Wansbeck, since 2010". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2010. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U251554. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  3. ^ "The Great Debate Contributors: Ian Lavery". thegreatdebate.org.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Lavery, Ian, (born 6 January 1963), MP (Lab) Wansbeck, since 2010." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 December 2010.
  5. ^ "An Interview with Ian Lavery, Lavery, president of the National Union of Mineworkers". Capital and Class. 29 (3): 29–42. Autumn 2005. doi:10.1177/030981680508700104. S2CID 141357880.
  6. ^ a b "Ian Lavery Labour Party MP in Wansbeck – about me". Ian Lavery. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  7. ^ Syal, Rajeev (20 October 2017). "Labour party chair received £165,000 from union, watchdog finds". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  8. ^ "Labour Win". Archived from the original on 14 June 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  9. ^ "Ian Lavery MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  10. ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  11. ^ Pearson, Adrian (7 December 2012). "Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery resigns as aide over pensions battle". journallive. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  12. ^ Townsend, Mark (1 December 2012). "Criminal records of striking miners 'should be erased'". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  13. ^ Adrian, Pearson. "Journal NE Article December 2012". The Journal. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  14. ^ "Anti-racism MP under fire after posing with son blacked up to look like Michael Jackson". The Telegraph. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  15. ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  16. ^ Sedgwick, David (8 May 2015). "Labour's Ian Lavery 'honoured' to be re-elected as Wansbeck MP". Northumberland Gazette. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  17. ^ Wintour, Patrick (15 June 2015). "In the running: profiles of the four Labour leadership candidates". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  18. ^ "Ian Lavery MP received £165,000 from NUM trade union – Workers of England Union". www.workersofengland.co.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  19. ^ Syal, Rajeev (20 October 2017). "Labour party chair received £165,000 from union, watchdog finds". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  20. ^ Stewart, Heather (12 February 2017). "Labour has plenty of potential leadership candidates, says party's elections chief". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  21. ^ Stewart, Heather (3 May 2017). "Hope mingles with suspicion as Labour's election cranks into gear". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  22. ^ "Wansbeck". BBC News. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  23. ^ Madeley, Pete (16 June 2017). "Ian Lavery appointed Labour Chairman". Express & Star News. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  24. ^ Elgot, Jessica (3 July 2017). "Jeremy Corbyn appoints clutch of unknowns to shadow frontbench". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  25. ^ Meyer, Harriet (14 December 2015). "For flood-hit areas the problems don't stop after the waters have receded". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  26. ^ Helm, Toby (16 December 2018). "Party activists pile pressure on Corbyn to back second vote". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
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  28. ^ Murphy, Simon (5 January 2021). "Former Labour chair criticised for raising doubts over Covid vaccine". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  29. ^ Wearmouth, Rachel (24 February 2022). "11 Labour MPs threatened with suspension for signing Stop The War letter attacking NATO". Mirror. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  30. ^ "Exit poll suggests Labour set for huge landslide win in UK general election – latest live news". The Guardian. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  31. ^ "Liam Lavery – College Ward – Councillors". Ashington Town Council. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
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