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James Andrew Plaskitt (born
23 June 1954) is a politician in the
United Kingdom. He is the
Labour Party Member of Parliament for
Warwick and Leamington.
Born in
Grimsby, Plaskitt was educated at the
Pilgrim School in
Bedford and went up to
University College,
Oxford to read
Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He graduated in 1976 and subsequently took a
master's degree in
Politics before taking up a lectureship at University College. He moved to
Brunel University for four years and then to
Christ Church,
Oxford.
His political career began in 1985 when he was elected to
Oxfordshire County Council. He was leader of the Labour group from 1990 to 1996. Plaskitt joined Oxford Analytica as a
business consultant, and later became its consultancy director. In the
1992 general election he contested
Witney for Labour, losing by a substantial margin to
Conservative former
Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. As Labour were swept to power in the
1997 general election landslide, Plaskitt was elected
MP for the previously Conservative
constituency of
Warwick and
Leamington Spa, beating the incumbent
Dudley Smith into second place. He has served on the
House of Commons Treasury Select Committee since 1999, and in the
2001 general election was re-elected with an increased margin, although
turnout was lower. Plaskitt was a loyal Labour
backbencher, voting with the government on major contentious issues such as the
2003 invasion of Iraq,
university tuition fees and
foundation hospitals.
After the general election of May 2005, he was appointed as a
junior minister in the
Department for Work and Pensions.
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