Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott

Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott, of Telford in the County of Shropshire PC ( born 1 November 1940 in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England ) is a British Labour Party politician, who, among other things several years Chief Whip of the Labour Group in the House of Lords was.

Life

Lower house deputy

After schooling Grocott studied at the University of Leicester and the University of Manchester and was after graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the City of Birmingham College of Commerce and then 1972-1974 as Principal Lecturer at North Staffordshire Polytechnic operates.

Grocott, the first unsuccessful candidate in the general election in 1970 as the candidate of the Labour Party in the constituency of South West Hertfordshire for a seat in the House of Commons, was active from 1971 to 1974 as a member of the District Council (Urban District Council ) of Bromsgrove in local politics.

After he had applied also in the lower house elections of February 1974 without success in the constituency Lichfield and Tamworth, he was first elected in the general election of 10 October 1974 in this constituency as a member of the House of Commons and was this initially until 3 May 1979 to. During this time he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Silkin, who initially was Minister for Planning and Local Government, and then to 1978, Minister of Agriculture 1975-1976.

After a defeat in his constituency Lichfield and Tamworth suffered at the general election 3 May 1979 against his conservative challenger John Heddle and left Parliament, he tried at the general election in 1983 also without success for a re-entry in the lower house in the constituency The Wrekin. In the period from 1979 to 1987, he worked as a presenter and producer for ITV Central.

In the general election of 11 June 1987 in this constituency, he managed to election as a member of the House of Commons, where he remained until June 7, 2001, most recently the constituency represented Telford since the general election of 1 May 1997.

During his membership of Parliament between 1987 and 1992 he was Deputy Leader of the House in the shadow cabinet and deputy campaign coordinator of his party and then from 1992 to 1993 Speaker of the House of Commons opposition faction of the Labour Party for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. After that, he was between 1994 and 2001 Parliamentary private secretary to Tony Blair, the chairman of the Labour Party, which he served between 1997 and 2001 as Parliamentary Private Secretary after he took office as prime minister.

Member of the Upper House

In the general election of 7 June 2001, he opted not to run again and was instead after his retirement from the House of Commons on 3 July 2001 as a life peer with the title of Baron Grocott, of Telford in the County of Shropshire to the peerage collected and since then belongs thus to the House of Lords on.

In the following years, he was a Lord in Waiting, between June 2001 and May 2002 the Government Whip Group in the House of Lords and at the same time spokesman for the government of Defence, Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth Affairs, International Development, Labor and Pensions.

He was then in May 2002 the Government Chief Whip fraction and at the same time until January 2008 Deputy Chairman of Committees, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. Baron Grocott is also a member of the Governing Council of the Birmingham City University and President of the Telford Steam Railway.