John Francis Spellar (born 5 August1947, Bromley) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is the LabourMember of Parliament for Warley, and served as a junior minister at the Northern Ireland Office, before returning to the backbenches in 2006. August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Bromley is the principal town in the London Borough of Bromley, 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. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Warley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) is an arm of the United Kingdom government, responsible for Northern Ireland affairs. ...
Spellar was a councillor in the London Borough of Bromley 1970-74. He was first elected to Parliament in 1982 for Birmingham Northfield, but lost at the 1983 election. He returned to the House of Commons in 1992 representing Warley West and has represented Warley since 1997. He entered the Privy Council in 2001. The London Borough of Bromley is a London Borough of outer southeast London, England. ... Birmingham Northfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The UK general election, 1983 was held on June 9, 1983 and gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives. ... Warley West was a parliamentary constituency in the borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands of England. ... A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, especially in a monarchy. ...
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John F Spellar official site
Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: John Spellar MP
JOHNSPELLAR: I think it's not just and this is one of the you're right to identify this because this is one of the difficult messages to get across, and the success of Sinn Fein and also to an extent the DUP is not just about political message.
JOHNSPELLAR: Well I mean, I think you have to, if you look at the previous assembly, you had ministers from Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party, not always working so easily together, but actually running a quite efficient organisation, actually quite good ministers in terms of running their departments.
JOHNSPELLAR: I don't know because inevitably they would have to, in the light of the new circumstances, there would have to be further talks and it is a very difficult option for the IRA to actually contemplate going back to terrorist activity.
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