David Winnick

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David Winnick MP

Member of Parliament for Walsall North
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 May 1979
Preceded by	Robin Hodgson
Member of Parliament for Croydon South
In office 31 March 1966 – 18 June 1970
Preceded by	Richard Thompson
Succeeded by	Richard Thompson

Born	26 June 1933 (1933-06-26) (age 74)
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour

David Julian Winnick (born 26 June 1933) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall North.

Winnck was an advertising manager and a branch chairman of the Clerical and Administrative Workers Union. He was a councillor from 1959 on Willesden Borough Council, then the London Borough of Brent.

Winnick was first elected as an MP in 1966, for Croydon South (now the area roughly covered by Croydon Central constituency), defeating incumbent Richard Thompson. He lost his seat to Thompson in 1970, stood again in Croydon in October 1974 and was returned for Walsall North in 1979.

Winnick is generally regarded as on the left of the Labour Party and has a strong commitment to human rights. That commitment, however, also made him a strong voice in the House of Commons against both the Taliban and Saddam Hussein and he supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

On 9 November 2005, Winnick's amendment to a government bill on detention of terrorist suspects without trial - proposing that the maximum period of detention should be 28 days, rather than 90 - passed in the House of Commons by 323 votes to 290, shortly after the government's 90-day proposal was defeated by 322 to 291. This was Tony Blair's first Commons defeat on a whipped vote, after nearly nine years as Prime Minister, and may come to be seen as a critical moment of his term in office.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Richard Thompson	Member of Parliament for Croydon South 1966–1970	Succeeded by Richard Thompson
Preceded by Robin Hodgson	Member of Parliament for Walsall North 1979 – present	Incumbent