NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Chris Mullin (politician)

Christopher John Mullin, known as Chris Mullin, (born 12 December 1947 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an UK Labour politician, currently the member of Parliament for the English constituency of Sunderland South. He read Law at the University of Hull Chris Mullin MP with permission www. ... Chris Mullin MP with permission www. ... December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 19 days remaining. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Statistics Population: 110,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TL705065 Administration Borough: Chelmsford Shire county: Essex Region: East of England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Essex Historic county: Essex Services Police force: Essex Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: East of England Post office and... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Sunderland South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The University of Hull, also known as Hull University, is an English university located in Hull (or Kingston upon Hull), a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire. ...

Before being elected as an MP, he was a journalist working with the well-respected ITV documentary programme World in Action and had campaigned for the release of the Birmingham Six, a notorious miscarriage of justice. He was also editor of the Tribune newspaper (1982-84). ITV (Independent Television) is the name popularly given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the network has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of... World in Action was an investigative current affairs series produced by Granada Television in the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1998. ... The Birmingham Six were Hug Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Gerard Bitcher, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker. ... A miscarriage of justice is primarily the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime that he or she did not commit. ... Tribune is a democratic socialist weekly, currently a magazine though in the past more often a newspaper, published in London. ...

Mullin was first elected MP in 1987, and has been returned at every subsequent election to 2005. His constituency was the first to declare in every general election since 1992 (1992, 1997, 2001, and 2005). His wife is of Vietnamese ethnicity and they have two daughters. Margaret Thatcher Neil Kinnock 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. ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005. ... The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... Tony Blair William Hague Charles Kennedy The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005. ...

He was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Vietnam and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Cambodia, Member of the Home Affairs Select Committee (1992–97), Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee (1997–99). Despite his criticism of the government, he was a junior minister from 1999 to 2001, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, DETR and Minister of State, Department for International Development (2001). The Socialist Campaign Group is a left-wing grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom. ... An All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) is a grouping in the UK Parliament made up of politicans from all political parties. ... An All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) is a grouping in the UK Parliament made up of politicans from all political parties. ... The Home Affairs Select Committee is a Committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... A Select Committee is a committee made up of a small number of parliamentary members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues originating in the Westminster System of parliamentary democracy. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article is about the year 2001. ... A Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, in the United Kingdom government structure, is a minister who is junior to a Minister of State who is then junior to a Secretary of State. ... The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions was a UK Cabinet position created in 1997, with responsibility for the Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions. ... Minister of State is a title borne by officials in certain countries governed under the parliamentary system. ... The Department for International Development (DFID) is a United Kingdom government department, the function of which is to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty. // Ministers The Department is headed by Cabinet Minister and Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn. ... This article is about the year 2001. ...

He returned to government in June 2003, as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, but after the 2005 election again returned to the backbenches. Before the Labour victory of 1997, Mullin had attained a reputation for campaigning on behalf of victims of injustice and opposition to the curtailing of civil rights which may have been sullied by his most recent stretch as a junior minister. Recently, however, his vote against the government's 90-days detention without trial for terrorist suspects proposal - as one of 49 Labour rebels - may indicate a re-emergence of his civil libertarian instincts, now that further ministerial promotion under Tony Blair seems unlikely. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad. ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005. ... A backbencher is a Member of Parliament or a legislature who does not hold governmental office and is not a Front Bench spokesperson in the Opposition. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ...

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A Very British Coup, described the destabilisation (and ultimate replacement) of a left wing British government by the forces of the Establishment. The novel appeared in the early 1980s and was adapted for television, with substantial alterations to the plot in 1988. Tony Benn about to join March 2005 anti-war demo in London Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician on the left of the Labour Party. ... A Very British Coup is a 1982 novel by Chris Mullin, and a 1988 British television adaptation of the novel, adapted by Alan Plater and starring Ray McAnally. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Birmingham Six were Hug Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Gerard Bitcher, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker. ... A Very British Coup is a 1982 novel by Chris Mullin, and a 1988 British television adaptation of the novel, adapted by Alan Plater and starring Ray McAnally. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word... The Establishment is a slang term (chiefly in British and Commonwealth English) for a traditional conservative ruling class and its institutions. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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