Education
Ruskin College.
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Harry Barnes
Edit Profilepolitician Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Career
In the SCG split over the NATO intervention in Kosovo in 1999, he supported intervention. As an MP, he joined a supporters group entitled 'Friends of the ILP'. Harry Barnes stepped down at the May 2005 general election.
Politics
Born in Easington, County Durham, elected to Parliament in the 1987 election, Barnes was a left-winger, a member of the Socialist Campaign Group who voted against Tony Blair's leadership on a number of issues.
Membership
[50th United Kingdom Parliament. 51st United Kingdom Parliament. 52nd United Kingdom Parliament.
53rd United Kingdom Parliament]
Unlike other members of the SCG he was not an advocate of the Troops out movement (from Northern Ireland). Before entering parliament, Barnes was a member of the Independent Labour Party's successor organisation, Independent Labour Publications.
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Political Party
Independent Labour Party