Tony Lloyd

Infobox MP
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name = Tony Lloyd
honorific-suffix =MP


constituency_MP = Manchester Central
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majority = 9,776 (33.4%)
predecessor = Bob Litherland
successor = Incumbent
term_start = 1 May 1997
term_end =
constituency_MP2 = Stretford
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predecessor2 = Winston Churchill
successor2 = "constituency abolished"
term_start2 = 9 June 1983
term_end2 = 1 May 1997
birth_date = Birth date and age|1950|02|25|df=yes
birth_place = Barton-upon-Irwell
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nationality = British
spouse = Judith Ann Tear
party = Labour
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alma_mater = University of Nottingham
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Anthony Joseph Lloyd, known as Tony Lloyd, (born 25 February 1950, Barton-upon-Irwell) is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Manchester Central.

Early life

He went to Stretford Grammar School for Boys on "Great Stone Road" in Stretford and the University of Nottingham gaining a BSc in Maths in 1972. Later he went to Manchester Business School studying for an MBA, becoming a university lecturer in Business Studies at the University of Salford.

Parliamentary career

Lloyd was first returned to the British House of Commons at the 1983 general election, as Member of Parliament for Stretford. When constituency boundaries were revised for the 1997 general election, he transferred to the Manchester Central constituency, where he has been returned at subsequent elections.

When Labour was returned to office in 1997 under Tony Blair, Lloyd was appointed a junior minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office under Robin Cook, but left the Government in the reshuffle in 1999. He remains a backbencher.

Since leaving the Government, his voting record shows a strong left-wing inclination, with him appearing as a rebel teller on several notable occasions. Lloyd joined the considerable number of Labour MPs in choosing to vote against government policy regarding the Iraq War, following this he sided with the sizable number of Labour MPs who rebelled against government policy to detain terror suspects for 90 days without trial, further, in 2007 Lloyd also voted against the renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System. Lloyd has also allied himself with other notable left wing causes, consistently voting in support of gay rights and against government policy to introduce student tuition fees.

He is also a Vice-President of the Western European Union. He became chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, which represents the concern of backbench MPs, on 5 December 2006, defeating incumbent Ann Clwyd who was perceived to be too close to Blair. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6211412.stm]

Contributed chapters about John Robert Clynes and George Kelly, Labour Members of Parliament for Manchester elected in 1906, to Men Who Made Labour, edited by Alan Haworth and Diane Hayter.

Personal life

He married Judith Ann Tear on 21 September 1974 in Leicester. They have a son and three daughters.

External links

* [http://www.tonylloydmp.co.uk Tony Lloyd] official site
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-3165,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Tony Lloyd MP]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/tony_lloyd/manchester_central TheyWorkForYou.com - Tony Lloyd MP]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/394.stm BBC Politics]