David Watts (politician)

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David Watts MP
Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 March 2012
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Tony Lloyd
Member of Parliament for St Helens North
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 1997
Preceded by	John Evans
Majority	13,101 (29.4%)
Personal details
Born	(1951-08-26) 26 August 1951 St Helens, Lancashire, England, UK
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Avril Davies

David Leonard Watts (born 26 August 1951) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Helens North since 1997, and the Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party since 2012.

Early life

He went to Malvern Primary School and Huyton Hey Secondary Modern School on Seel Road in Huyton. He had previously been leader of St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council for four years. He was the shop steward of a United Biscuits factory on Binns Road in Huyton.

Parliamentary career

Watts was a Government Whip and Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury from 2008 to 2010. On 15 March 2012, he was elected to succeed Tony Lloyd as the Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party

Personal life

He married Avril Davies in 1972. They have two sons.

External links

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Leadership	Miliband (Leader) Harman (Deputy Leader) Winterton (Chief Whip)

Shadow Cabinet Members	Alexander Balls Bassam Benn Burnham Coaker Cooper Creagh Curran De Piero Dugher A Eagle M Eagle Flint Hunt Khan Leslie Lewis Murphy Reeves Royall Smith Thornberry Umunna

Also Attending Meetings	Cruddas Kendall Reynolds Trickett Watts Wood

Labour Party

Leadership

Leaders	Hardie Henderson Barnes MacDonald Henderson Adamson Clynes MacDonald Henderson Lansbury Attlee Gaitskell Brown (acting) Wilson Callaghan Foot Kinnock Smith Beckett (acting) Blair Brown Harman (acting) Miliband

Deputy Leaders	Clynes Graham Attlee Greenwood Morrison Griffiths Bevan Brown Jenkins Short Foot Healey Hattersley Beckett Prescott Harman

General Secretaries	MacDonald Henderson Middleton Phillips Williams Nicholas Hayward Mortimer Whitty Sawyer McDonagh Triesman Carter Watt Collins McNicol

Treasurers	Henderson MacDonald Henderson Lathan Greenwood Gaitskell Bevan Nicholas Davies Callaghan Atkinson Varley Booth McCluskie Burlison Prosser Elsby Dromey Holland

Leaders (Lords)	Haldane Cripps Ponsonby Snell Addison Jowitt Alexander Pakenham Shackleton Shepherd Peart Hughes Richard Jay Williams Amos Ashton Royall

PLP Chairs	Hardie Henderson Barnes MacDonald Henderson Hodge* Wardle* Adamson Clynes MacDonald Henderson Lansbury Attlee Lees-Smith* Pethick-Lawrence* Greenwood* Gaitskell Wilson Houghton Mikardo Hughes Willey Dormand Orme Hoyle Soley Corston Clwyd Lloyd Watts

Internal elections

Leadership elections	1922 (MacDonald) 1935 (Attlee) 1955 (Gaitskell) 1960 1961 1963 (Wilson) 1976 (Callaghan) 1980 (Foot) 1983 (Kinnock) 1988 1992 (Smith) 1994 (Blair) 2007 (Brown) 2010 (Miliband)

Deputy Leadership elections	1972 (Short) 1976 (Foot) 1980 (Healey) 1981 1983 (Hattersley) 1988 1992 (Beckett) 1994 (Prescott) 2007 (Harman)

Shadow Cabinet elections	1979 (Callaghan) 1980 (Foot) 1981 (Foot) ... 1992 (Smith) 1993 (Smith) 1994 (Blair) 1995 (Blair) 1996 (Blair) 2010 (Miliband)

Organisation

Constitution and structure	Constitution Rule book Constituency Labour Party Affiliated trade unions Socialist societies Parliamentary Labour Party National Executive Committee Labour Party Conference National Policy Forum Clause IV General Secretary Treasurer European Parliamentary Labour Party Labour Chief Whip

Related organisations	Affiliated trade union Christians on the Left Compass Co-operative Party Fabian Society Grassroots Alliance Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform Labour CND Labour Friends of Israel Labour Party Irish Society Labour Representation Committee (2004) Labour Students LGBT Labour LabourList National Union of Labour and Socialist Clubs Progress Scottish Labour Party Socialist Appeal Socialist Educational Association SERA Socialist Campaign Group Socialist Youth Network Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation Tribune Welsh Labour Young Labour

History and related topics	History of the Labour Party (UK) History of the socialist movement in the United Kingdom Lib–Lab pact New Labour Tony's Cronies

* = wartime, in opposition

Persondata
Name	Watts, David
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	26 August 1951
Place of birth	St Helens, Lancashire, England, UK
Date of death
Place of death

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