Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Hampstead

Anthony James Clarke, Baron Clarke of Hampstead ( born April 17, 1932) is an English trade unionist and Labour Party politician.

He was first telegram messenger and postman, and in 1979 a full-time trade union secretary of the Union of Postal Workers, in 1980 renamed to the Union of Communication Workers ( UCW ). He was editor of the trade union magazine "The Post" and was from 1981 to 1983 Deputy Secretary-General of the UCW.

Clarke was from 1983 to 1993 a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 1992 to 1993 and Chairman of The Labour Party.

In 1998 he was raised to life peer, as Baron Clarke of Hampstead. He headed the committee of inquiry into the causes of the unrest of Burnley in 2001.

In May 2009, he admitted that he had fiddling with his income, to represent to that he had obtained no income.