Early Life
He attended Bootle Grammar School for Boys (now called Bootle High School) and studied economics at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University). He was President of the Student Union from 1969-70. After graduating in 1972, he became a community worker, being Assistant General Secretary of the Nottingham Council of Voluntary Service from 1970-4, and worked on an anti-vandalism project from 1974-8. He later became a research officer for the city's Racial Equality Council from 1979-92.
He joined the Labour Party in 1973 and was elected a county councillor in 1985. He first contested his eventual seat in 1987.
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