Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (17 February 1944 – 8 April 2000), known simply as Bernie Grant, was a politician in the United Kingdom, and was Labour member of Parliament for Tottenham at the time of his death. February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Tottenham is a suburb of north London in the London Borough of Haringey, situated 6. ...

He was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and took up the British government's offer to let people from colonies move to the UK to do blue-collar work, in 1963. In the mid-1960s he was for a period a member of the Socialist Labour League. He quickly became a trade union official, and moved into politics, becoming a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Haringey in 1978. He became its leader in 1985, but provided the borough with inspirational leadership and aroused controversy in the right wing media for his anti-racist views. Following the Broadwater Estate riots of 1985, during which a policeman was hacked to death, he was famously quoted as saying that the police had been given "a bloody good hiding" - an allegation which Grant strenuously denied. His vilification in the right wing media however did not prevent his becoming MP for Tottenham in the 1987 election, one of only three black MPs at the time. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Workers Revolutionary Party was a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. ... A trade union or labor union is a continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment. ... The London Borough of Haringey is a London borough in North London, England, and forms part of Outer London. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Broadwater Farm riot was a riot that occurred in and around the Broadwater Farm area of Tottenham London on 6 October 1985. ... Margaret Thatcher David Steel Election 1987 Titles The United Kingdom general election of 1987 was held on 11 June 1987 and was the third consecutive victory for the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher. ...

He was associated with the Socialist Campaign Group, and spoke out against police racism. Following his death from a heart attack, his widow, Sharon Grant, was on the shortlist to succeed him as Labour candidate for Tottenham, but was beaten by the then-27-year-old David Lammy, who won the by-election. In the African British community, Grant remains one of the most admired and mythologised parliamentarian to emerge in British political history. The Socialist Campaign Group is a left-wing grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom. ... Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ... David Lindon Lammy (born July 19, 1972) is a British politician who has been tipped as Britains first Black Prime Minister Lammy was born in Tottenham, a working-class area of North London, and brought up by his mother after his father left the family. ...