David Kidney

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David Kidney MP
David Kidney
Member of Parliament
for Stafford
Incumbent
Assumed office 
1 May 1997
Preceded by Bill Cash
Born 21 March 1955 (1955-03-21) (age 53)
Meir, Stoke-on-Trent
Nationality British
Political party Labour

David Neil Kidney (born 21 March 1955, Meir, Stoke-on-Trent) is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom.

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[edit] Early life

He went to Pinewood Primary School on Pinewood Crescent in Meir (now the new Crescent Primary School), Longton High School then the City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College. He studied Law at the University of Bristol, receiving an LLB. Kidney was a solicitor from 1977-79 in Hanley then in Stafford from 1979-97, and a Stafford Borough councillor from 1987-97. He was a parish councillor of Checkley from 1983-7.

[edit] Political career

He has been Member of Parliament for Stafford since 1997, beating Conservative candidate David Cameron in the process. It was a former Conservative rural seat. He was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from 1997-2001. He was on the government's pay-roll, but resigned in 2003 in protest at the Iraq War. Became PPS to Elliot Morley Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in November 2005, and from 2006 he has acted as the PPS to the Foreign Secretary David Miliband. He is Vice-Chair of the Conservation & Wildlife and Environment APGs.

[edit] Personal life

He has two children - Robert and Katie - from his marriage on September 9 1979. David is also a school governor for Silkmore Primary School.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Bill Cash		 Member of Parliament for Stafford
1997 – present		 Incumbent


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