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Clive Efford
MP
Official portrait, 2017
Shadow Minister for Sport
In office
8 October 2011 – 28 June 2016
LeaderEd Miliband
Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded byIan Austin
Succeeded byRosena Allin-Khan
Shadow Home Office Minister
In office
26 September 2010 – 5 October 2011
LeaderEd Miliband
Member of Parliament
forEltham and Chislehurst
Eltham(1997-2024)
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 May 1997
Preceded byPeter Bottomley
Majority8,429 (14.5%)
Personal details
Born
Clive Stanley Efford[1]

(1958-07-10)10 July 1958(age 66)
Southwark,London,England
Political partyLabour
SpouseGillian Vallins
WebsiteOfficial website

Clive Stanley Efford(born 10 July 1958) is a BritishLabour Partypolitician who has served asMember of Parliament(MP) forEltham and Chislehurst,previouslyEltham,since1997.

Early life

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Efford was born inLondonand educated atWalworth SchoolandSouthwark College.He worked in his familyjewellerybusiness, until he completedThe Knowledgeand qualified asLondon taxi driverin 1987. In 1986, he became an electedcouncillorin theLondon Borough of Greenwich,and continued in both these occupations until being elected toParliamentin1997.[citation needed]

Political career

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Efford was first elected toGreenwich Councilin 1986 for the ElthamWell HallWard, becoming the Labour Group Chief Whip in 1990. After first contesting the seat ofElthamat the1992 general election,he successfully won the seat five years later in1997.He went on to win the seat at the ensuing general elections in2001,2005and2010,with his majority declining after each until the2015 general electionand increased further in2017.

He made hismaiden speechin theHouse of Commonson 25 June 1997.[2]Almost as soon as he was elected, he was required to deal with the fallout from the family of murdered Eltham teenagerStephen Lawrenceregistering a formal complaint with thePolice Complaints Authority,with the police officers in question facing allegations of racism.[citation needed]

In Parliament, he has served on a number ofSelect committees,most notably being a member of theTransport Select Committeefrom 2001 to 2008. In 2003, he was one of the Labour MPs who rebelled against the government and voted against UK involvement in theIraq War.In 2005, Efford was responsible for the reformation of the previously defunctTribune Group,though unlike its previous incarnation, membership was restricted to backbench Labour MPs.[3]In 2008, he became theParliamentary Private SecretarytoHousing MinisterMargaret Beckett,later becoming the PPS toJohn Healeyin the same role from 2009 to 2010.[citation needed]

He was one of the first MPs to declare his support forEd Miliband,the successful candidate, in the2010 Labour leadership election.Miliband subsequently appointed him to theOpposition Front Benchin 2011 as a Shadow Home Office Minister under newShadow Home SecretaryYvette Cooper.In the reshuffle of October 2011, he became theShadow Minister for Sport.

Clive Efford was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominateJeremy Corbynas a candidate in theLabour leadership election of 2015[4]and he retained his position in Corbyn's shadow cabinet. He resigned from Corbyn's shadow cabinet following a large number of resignations from theLabourfront bench on 28 June 2016.[citation needed]He supportedOwen Smithin the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election.[5]

Efford was shortlisted for theGrassroot DiplomatInitiative Award in 2015 for his work on National Health Service Bill, and he remains in the directory of the Grassroot Diplomat Who's Who publication.[6]

Efford relaunchedthe Tribune Group of MPsin April 2017, aiming to reconnect with traditional Labour voters while also appealing to the centre ground.[7]

Efford endorsedKeir Starmerin the2020 Labour Party leadership election.[8]

References

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  1. ^"No. 61961".The London Gazette.19 June 2017. p. 11776.
  2. ^Westminster, Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons."House of Commons Hansard Debates for 25 Jun 1997 (pt 28)".www.publications.parliament.uk.Archivedfrom the original on 28 October 2016.Retrieved14 June2017.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^"BBC NEWS - UK - UK Politics - Commons Confidential: November 2005".news.bbc.co.uk.30 November 2005.Archivedfrom the original on 19 December 2006.Retrieved14 June2017.
  4. ^"Who nominated who for the 2015 Labour leadership election?".www.newstatesman.com.15 June 2015.Archivedfrom the original on 5 July 2015.Retrieved14 June2017.
  5. ^"Full list of MPs and MEPs backing challenger Owen Smith".LabourList.21 July 2016.Archivedfrom the original on 15 July 2019.Retrieved15 July2019.
  6. ^"Grassroot Diplomat Who's Who".Grassroot Diplomat.15 March 2015. Archived fromthe originalon 20 May 2015.Retrieved27 April2015.
  7. ^Helm, Toby (2 April 2017)."Labour MPs revamp centre-left Tribune group to win back middle-class voters".The Observer.Archivedfrom the original on 13 June 2017.Retrieved19 June2017.
  8. ^Clive Efford [@CliveEfford] (5 January 2020)."This video needs no comment. Join @UKLabour and get a vote to select someone who has demonstrated he has the values we are all seeking in the person we want to lead our country"(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
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