Jon Trickett

Infobox MP


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name = Jon Trickett
honorific-suffix = MP
office = Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister
term_start = 4 October 2008
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predecessor = Ian Austin
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constituency_MP2 = Hemsworth
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majority2 = 13,481 (36.6%)
predecessor2 = Derek Enright
successor2 = Incumbent
term_start2 = 1 February 1996
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birth_place = Leeds, Yorkshire
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nationality = British
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party = Labour
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Jonathan Hedley Trickett (born 2 July, 1950, Leeds, Yorkshire) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.

He is Member of Parliament (MP) for Hemsworth in Yorkshire. He was first elected in a by-election in 1996 after the death of Labour MP Derek Enright, and has held the same seat since then.

He had previously been leader of Leeds City Council.

Until the vote on 42-day detention without charge, Trickett was chair of the [http://www.compassonline.org.uk/ Compass] Parliamentary group. He resigned from this position after voting in favour of the legislation despite Compass opposition to the Bill. He was a leading figure in the campaign to prevent a decision to replace the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjykqXv3VYQ/ Trident] nuclear weapons system in 2007. He was Jon Cruddas' campaign manager during the 2007 Labour Party deputy leadership election. In June 2007 he was appointed by Gordon Brown to chair the party's manifesto group on housing. Following the cabinet reshuffle of 3 October 2008, Trickett became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7653134.stm] ]

External links

[http://www.jontrickett.org.uk] official site
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-5242,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Jon Trickett MP] (Plumber)
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/jon_trickett/hemsworth TheyWorkForYou.com - Jon Trickett MP]