David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon

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David Leonard Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon (born 4 May 1926) is a British independent Labour politician (that is, unaffiliated to the Labour Party).

Stoddart was Labour Member of Parliament for Swindon from 1970 to 1983, when he lost his seat to the Conservative Simon Coombs. Stoddart was a government whip from 1975 to 1978.

Stoddart was raised to the peerage as a life peer in 1983 as Baron Stoddart of Swindon, of Reading in the Royal County of Berkshire. He was expelled from the Labour benches in the House of Lords in 2002 for backing a Socialist Alliance candidate in the 2001 general election.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by:
Christopher Ward		 Member of Parliament for Swindon
1970–1983		 Succeeded by:
Simon Coombs


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