Mike Wood

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Michael Roy Wood (born March 3, 1946, Crewe) is a British politician, and Labour Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen, first elected in 1997. He is opposed to Tony Blair, and is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, and is considered one of the most rebellious Labour MPs.

1 Personal life
2 Political Life
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Personal life

He was educated at Leeds Metropolitan University, gaining a degree in History and Politics, and trained as a probation officer before becoming a full time politician.

He lists his interests as reading, music, sport, ornithology and walking. He was also the founder member of two workers' co-operatives.

Mr Wood is an executive member of the Penal Affairs Group, a patron of the National Association of Market Authorities, a member of the Campaign for State Education and the Working Class Movement Library and a friend of Birzeit University

[edit] Political Life

From 1980 to 1988, he represented his then hometown Cleckheaton as a councillor - during that time he was chair of the housing committee and the social services committee and was deputy leader of Kirklees Council.

He joined the Labour party in 1966, aged twenty. His political interests are described as: "law and order, animal welfare, transport, employment, health and the environment. He is a member of the Parliamentary groups on homelessness, transport, Indo-British affairs, AIDS, animal welfare, MS, ME, disablement, human rights, Kashmir and alcohol misuse."

On 31 October 2006, Wood was one of 12 Labour MPs to back Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party's call for an inquiry into the Iraq War.^[1]