Tony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Hampstead

Anthony James Clarke, Baron Clarke of Hampstead, CBE (called Tony;[1] born 17 April 1932) is an English trade unionist and Labour Party politician.

Official portrait, 2017

Union roles

A former telegraph boy and postman, in 1979 Clarke became a full-time official of the Union of Postal Workers, which in 1980 became the Union of Communication Workers (UCW). He edited the UPW journal "The Post" in 1979, and served as the UCW's Deputy General Secretary from 1981 to 1993.

Labour Party chairmanship

Clarke was a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee from 1983 to 1993, and served as Chairman of The Labour Party from 1992 to 1993.

House of Lords

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1998 New Year Honours.[2] He was created a life peer on 29 July 1998, as Baron Clarke of Hampstead, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden.[3] He chaired the Taskforce established to investigate the causes of the disturbances in Burnley in 2001.

In May 2009 he admitted that he "fiddled" his expenses to make up for not being paid a salary.[4]

gollark: It's an extreme example which hopefully maybe provides insight into a more realistic case.
gollark: Fascinating.
gollark: If you just doubled the number of people "involved in politics" by some loose definition by taking arbitrary random people, would this actually improve the political situation? I would be surprised if it did; I don't think most have some sort of unique original contribution, but just go for participating in shouting louder at other groups.
gollark: Possibly true but not very relevant.
gollark: You could probably argue that something something tragedy of the commons, but clearly there are a lot of people who do do politics and it is possible that adding more would actually worsen things.

References
  1. Ham & High — Lord defies fellow Labour peers & The Telegraph — Clarke of Hampstead admitted ‘terrible error’ (Accessed 8 April 2018)
  2. "No. 54993". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1997. p. 8.
  3. "No. 55213". The London Gazette. 3 August 1998. p. 8431.
  4. ml, Lord Clarke of Hampstead admitted 'terrible error' : MPs' expenses, Daily Telegraph 19 November 2009, Accessed 11 July 2014]
Political offices
Preceded by
John Evans		 Chair of the Labour Party
1992–1993		 Succeeded by
David Blunkett
Trade union offices
Preceded by
Alan Tuffin		 Deputy General Secretary of the Union of Communication Workers
1982–1993		 Succeeded by
Derek Hodgson
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