Early Life
Mann is the son of James (Jim) and Brenda Mann. He attended Waterloo Infants school, Pudsey, West Yorkshire (now a suburb of Leeds) from 1965-67. He then attended Pudsey Waterloo Junior school from 1967-71. He went to the independent Bradford Grammar School (via a scholarship). Mann has a degree in Economics from Manchester University and Diploma in Training Management. Active in the Labour Party from his youth (Pudsey South Labour Party), his activities have taken him from residence in London (he was a councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth), to Lewes in East Sussex, Baldock in Hertfordshire and Worksop in Bassetlaw. He was chair of the National Organisation of Labour Students from 1983-4.
Before entering Parliament he previously worked for the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union as Head of Research and Education and as the National Training Officer at the TUC National Education Centre in North London (now closed). Mann has also been a party employee and a trade union liaison officer. He was an ally of disgraced former Labour MP Phil Woolas. Mann is a member of Unite and GMB, YHA, the British Mountaineering Council, IPD and the Co-operative Party.
He married Joanna White in July 1986 in Leeds. They have two daughters and a son in their early 20s. He supports Leeds United.
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