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(Redirected from Tony Wright (Staffordshire politician)) British politician, born 1948 For the MP for Great Yarmouth, see Tony Wright (Great Yarmouth MP). For other people, see Anthony Wright (disambiguation).

Tony Wright
Member of Parliament
for Cannock Chase
Cannock and Burntwood (1992–1997)
In office
9 April 1992 – 12 April 2010
Preceded byGerald Howarth
Succeeded byAidan Burley
Personal details
Born (1948-03-11) 11 March 1948 (age 76)
Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Political partyLabour
SpouseMoira Wright
Children3 sons, including Ben
Alma materLondon School of Economics
Balliol College, Oxford
Harvard University

Anthony Wayland Wright (born 11 March 1948) is a British Labour Party politician and author, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cannock Chase from 1997 to 2010. He was first elected in 1992 for Cannock and Burntwood.

Early life

Wright was educated at Desborough County Primary School, then Kettering Grammar School (now known as the Tresham Institute although the old building has been recently knocked down) on Windmill Avenue in Kettering. Wright was educated at the London School of Economics (gaining a First class honours BSc in government in 1970), Harvard University (where he was a Kennedy Scholar from 1970 to 1971), and Balliol College, Oxford, gaining a DPhil in 1973.

He was a lecturer in politics at the University College of North Wales, Bangor from 1973 to 1975. He was a lecturer in politics from 1975 to 1992 at the University of Birmingham (School of Continuing Studies), where he is now an honorary professor.

Parliamentary career

He contested the Kidderminster seat in 1979. He has a keen interest in constitutional affairs, and from 1999 to 2010 was chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee. He also chaired the Reform of the House of Commons Committee ("the Wright Committee") from 2008 to 2009. He has written or edited 21 books.

On 21 July 2008 Wright announced that, for health reasons, he would not stand again at the 2010 general election.

Return to academia

On 10 May 2010, University College London announced that Wright had been appointed Professor of Government and Public Policy. He joined the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College as a professorial fellow on 1 September 2010.

Personal life

He married Moira Phillips in 1973 in Oxford, and they have three sons, one of whom is BBC political correspondent Ben Wright. He has had leukaemia.

Works

References

  1. Labour MP set to quit over health; BBC News, 21 July 2008
  2. "Tony Wright joins SPP". University College London. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  3. Tony Wright joins Department of Politics (Birkbeck press release)

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Preceded byGerald Howarth Member of Parliament for Cannock and Burntwood
1992–1997 		Constituency abolished
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1997–2010 		Succeeded byAidan Burley
Preceded byRhodri Morgan Chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee
1999–2010 		Succeeded byBernard Jenkin
Party political offices
Preceded byMargaret Hodge Chair of the Fabian Society
1999–2000 		Succeeded byCalum MacDonald
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