Austin Mitchell

Austin Vernon Mitchell ( born September 9, 1934 in Bradford, Yorkshire ) is a British Labour Party politician and member of Parliament for the constituency of Grimsby.

Biographical

Austin attended high school in Bingley and the Universities of Manchester and Oxford.

From 1959 to 1967, Austin lecturer at the University of Otago and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Here he published a study of a New Zealand election ( Waitaki Votes, 1962). Then he became a Fellow of the University of Oxford. His journalistic career began in 1969 at Yorkshire TV. As a presenter and interviewer Mitchell also worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation and British Sky Broadcasting, for example, in the mission target in opposition to the conservative politician Norman Tebbit.

During the Suez Crisis in 1956 Austin joined the Labour Party. The death of Mr Anthony Crosland in 1977 made ​​a by-election in Grimsby required. Austin Mitchell stood as a candidate for Labour and won with 560 votes ahead.

Lower house deputy

Since 1977 Austin Mitchell has the constituency Grimsby included continuously in the House. He had his best election result in 1997 with a vote share of 59.8 percent. " Austin initially belonged to the right wing of the Labour Party, but in recent years it has moved behind him as far to the right that he is now the extreme left. Because he in equality, public spending, government intervention in the economy and in the markets and believes in full employment, belonging to the principles of socialism, he is considered a dangerous revolutionary. ".

Austin's diverse interests meant that he was or is a member of numerous committees and working groups, for example, in the finance and administration committee, the Agriculture Committee, the Committee on Environment and nutrition, the Budget Committee, in the working groups of the Labour Party for economic policy and for electoral reform, and the bipartisan working groups for fisheries and for the media. In some committees and working groups he had chaired. He is currently Chairman of the working group for social housing. As Chairman of the photo -Committee of Deputies, he organizes an annual exhibition.

In the eighties, Austin Mitchell was in the Labour group first " cheerleader " ( Whip ) and then economics spokesman.

His special interest of the fishery is defined as the economy, housing and, as a Member of Grimsby, of course. In 2002 he changed his name to even temporarily in " Austin Haddock " ( " bib ").

The fisheries policy of the European Union could also have something to do with the fact that Austin Mitchell hostile to as Euroskeptic the EU. This is made clear again and again in numerous speeches and articles, as well as on his blog.

However, good relations with its European neighbors close to his heart. Among others, he has repeatedly received German student groups in the House and discussed with them.

Others

Austin has published numerous books and articles on topics such as socialism, politics of the Labour Party, the British Parliament, financial, tax and business issues and problems of the fishing industry; but he also deals with the county of Yorkshire, its inhabitants and their language. He is also co-editor of a book Parliament in Pictures (ISBN 978-0-500-01959-7 ). In his blog, " he comments on the current policy.

For his commitment to New Zealand interests in the United Kingdom Austin 2001 received the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Since 1976, Austin is with his second wife, the journalist and writer Linda McDougal, married. From this marriage a son and a daughter. He has two daughters from his first marriage.

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  • Member of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
  • Journalist (United Kingdom)
  • Support of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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