Background
He was born in Tynemouth, and grew up with seven siblings.
politician Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
He was born in Tynemouth, and grew up with seven siblings.
He attended Blyth Ridley County High School, a secondary modern, and left school at 14 to become a coal miner.
Before entering parliament he was a district councillor on Blyth Valley Borough Council from 1969 and a lay official of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). He was a miner from 1958–86. Campbell led picket lines in the 1984–85 miners' strike and was arrested twice.
When the government nationalised Northern Rock in 2008, Campbell declared it "the People's Bank" and opened an account. In May 2009, during the high-profile MPs expenses scandal, Campbell agreed to give back over £6,000 he had claimed for furnishings in his London home. Campbell was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.
He is one of a handful of Labour MPs to publicly support a British exit from the European Union. Northumberland County Council with £11m in Lehman Brothers in October 2008
Hairdresser in Cumbria with the same name gets his emails in November 2003
Cleared of assault in May 2002
Shoplifter given £10,000 trial over 92p tin of spaghetti bolognese in May 2002
Suspended from the Commons in March 1998.
He is an outspoken socialist.
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56th United Kingdom Parliament.