Early Life
Born in 1953 in Nottingham, he was educated at the local Robert Shaw Primary School in Aspley and Forest Fields Grammar School in Forest Fields. He got a degree at the City of London Polytechnic, and an MA at the University of Leeds, where studied with Prof Ralph Miliband.
He joined the Labour Party in 1971 when he was working as a warehouse worker. He worked for four years from 1979 as a Research Officer with the Labour Party. In 1982 he was elected as a councillor to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which he served until 1986. He was a local government officer at the Greater London Council, before he worked for the Trade Union movement, running the first Political Fund ballots, and then with the GMB.
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