John Spellar

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John Spellar MP
John Spellar
Member of Parliament
for Warley
Incumbent
Assumed office 
1 May 1997
Preceded by new constituency
Member of Parliament
for Birmingham Northfield
In office
28 October 1982 – 9 June 1983
Preceded by Jocelyn Cadbury
Succeeded by Roger King
Born 5 August 1947 (1947-08-05) (age 60)
Bromley
Nationality British
Political party Labour
Alma mater St Edmund Hall, Oxford

John Francis Spellar (born 5 August 1947, Bromley) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Warley, and served as a junior minister at the Northern Ireland Office, before returning to the backbenches in 2006.

Spellar was a councillor in the London Borough of Bromley 1970-74. He was first elected to Parliament in 1982 for Birmingham Northfield, but lost at the 1983 election. He returned to the House of Commons in 1992 representing Warley West and has represented Warley since 1997. He entered the Privy Council in 2001.

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