George Mudie (politician) explained

George Mudie
Office:Deputy Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons
Treasurer of the Household
Term Start:2 May 1997
Term End:27 July 1998
Primeminister:Tony Blair
Predecessor:Andrew MacKay
Successor:Keith Bradley
Office1:Member of Parliament
for Leeds East
Predecessor1:Denis Healey
Successor1:Richard Burgon
Term Start1:9 April 1992
Term End1:30 March 2015
Office2:Leader of Leeds City Council
Term Start2:1980
Term End2:1989
Predecessor2:Peter Sparling
Successor2:Jon Trickett
Office3:Leeds City Councillor
for Seacroft Ward
Term Start3:1971
Term End3:1992
Predecessor3:D. Ball
Successor3:Graham Hyde
Birth Name:George Edward Mudie
Birth Date:6 February 1945
Birth Place:Dundee, Angus, Scotland
Nationality:British
Party:Labour
Children:3

George Edward Mudie (born 6 February 1945) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds East from 1992 to 2015.

Early life

Born in Dundee, Scotland's fourth-largest city, Mudie was educated at the Waid Academy in Anstruther and later studied Social Studies at Newbattle Abbey College in Dalkeith. He worked initially as an engineer and then joined the merchant navy. In 1968 he became a trade union official with the National Union of Public Employees, a position he held until his election to the House of Commons in 1992.

Parliamentary career

Mudie was elected as a Leeds City Councillor in 1971 at the age of 26 and became the Council Leader from 1980 to 1989, elected as the authority's youngest leader to date at the age of 35 following the 1980 council election.

He was then elected as the Labour MP for Leeds East at the 1992 General Election following the retirement of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey. He held the seat comfortably until his retirement in 2015.[1]

In Parliament he was appointed as an Opposition Whip in 1994, a position he held until the Labour landslide at the 1997 election when he was elevated to become the Treasurer of HM Household and Deputy Chief Whip. In 1998 he was appointed as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education and Employment. He returned to the back benches in 1999.

He served on a number of select committees, and was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from 2001 to 2014.

In February 2013, Mudie voted against the second reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.[2] Subsequently, in May 2013 the MP voted against the bill’s third and final reading,[3] opposing the legalisation of same-sex marriage within England and Wales.

Personal life

He is married with three children, one from a former marriage. He named his eldest son Keir after Keir Hardie. His wife is a retired primary school headmistress.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Long-serving Leeds MP to stand down. 5 October 2013. 9 June 2020. BBC News.
  2. News: 2013-02-05 . MP-by-MP: Gay marriage vote . 2024-05-02 . BBC News . en-GB.
  3. Web site: The Public Whip — Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Third Reading - 21 May 2013 at 18:59 . 2024-05-02 . www.publicwhip.org.uk.