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Robert William Ainsworth (born 19 June 1952) is the British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
 for Coventry North East. He is a member of the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
. He is a Minister of State
Minister of State

Minister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a "minister of state" is a junior Political minister, who is assigned to assist a specific cabinet ....
 at the Ministry of Defence.

worth was born in Coventry
Coventry

Coventry is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. With a population of 303,475 at the United Kingdom Census 2001 , Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom....
 and attended the local Foxford Comprehensive School
Foxford School and Community Arts College

Foxford School and Community Arts College is a comprehensive school in Longford, Coventry, Coventry, England. The school has been awarded specialist status as an Arts College....
. He first became active in politics as a trade unionist at the Jaguar Cars plant in Coventry, where he worked from 1971, and served in many capacities within the Manufacturing, Science and Finance
Manufacturing, Science and Finance

Manufacturing, Science and Finance was a trade union in United Kingdom. It is now part of the Amicus trade union after merging with the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union in 2001....
 Union there, including four years as the Branch President.






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Robert William Ainsworth (born 19 June 1952) is the British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
 for Coventry North East. He is a member of the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
. He is a Minister of State
Minister of State

Minister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a "minister of state" is a junior Political minister, who is assigned to assist a specific cabinet ....
 at the Ministry of Defence.

Early life

Ainsworth was born in Coventry
Coventry

Coventry is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. With a population of 303,475 at the United Kingdom Census 2001 , Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom....
 and attended the local Foxford Comprehensive School
Foxford School and Community Arts College

Foxford School and Community Arts College is a comprehensive school in Longford, Coventry, Coventry, England. The school has been awarded specialist status as an Arts College....
. He first became active in politics as a trade unionist at the Jaguar Cars plant in Coventry, where he worked from 1971, and served in many capacities within the Manufacturing, Science and Finance
Manufacturing, Science and Finance

Manufacturing, Science and Finance was a trade union in United Kingdom. It is now part of the Amicus trade union after merging with the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union in 2001....
 Union there, including four years as the Branch President. During 1982 and 1983, he was a candidate member of the International Marxist Group
International Marxist Group

The International Marxist Group was a Trotskyist political party in UK between 1964 and 1987. It was the British Section of the reunified Fourth International....
, but he was never a full member of that organisation. In 1984, he was elected to the Coventry City Council, and was its deputy leader from 1989–1992.

Parliamentary career

Ainsworth became Labour candidate for Coventry North East in 1992 after the sitting MP, John Hughes
John Hughes (English politician)

John Hughes was Labour Party Member of Parliament for Coventry North East in the United Kingdom from 1987 to 1992.He was previously a Coventry City councillor and chair of the Coventry District Labour Party....
, was de-selected by the Constituency Labour Party
Constituency Labour Party

A Constituency Labour Party is an organisation of members of the British Labour Party who live in a particular UK parliamentary constituency in England, Scotland and Wales....
. Ainsworth was successfully elected with a 11,676 majority, and stepped down from the city council the following year. At the 1997 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1997

The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. The Labour Party won the general election in a landslide victory with 418 seats, the most seats the party has ever held....
 his majority soared to 22,569; falling back to 15,751 at the 2001 election
United Kingdom general election, 2001

The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media. There was little change at all - outside Northern Ireland - with 620 out of 641 seats remaining unchanged....
, and 14,222 at the 2005 election
United Kingdom general election, 2005

The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, with a reduced Majority government of 66....
.

Ainsworth has been an ever present member of the Labour governments under Tony Blair
Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007....
 and Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown UK Member of Parliament is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Brown assumed office in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party....
. From 1997–2001 he served as a whip
Whip (politics)

Whip is a role in party-based politics whose primary purpose is to ensure control of the formal decision-making process in a parliamentary legislature....
, and in the reshuffle following Peter Mandelson
Peter Mandelson

Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, Privy Council of the United Kingdom is a British Labour Party politician who is the current Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, appointed on 3 October 2008....
's second resignation in January 2001 he was promoted to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the former Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions.

After the 2001 general election Ainsworth was moved sideways to the Home Office
Home Office

The Home Office is the United Kingdom government department responsible for immigration control, security and order. As such it is responsible for the police, United Kingdom Borders Agency and MI5....
 (as Parliamentary Under-Secretary
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

Non-Permanent and Parliamentary Under-Secretaries for the Home Department, 1782-present*April 1782: Evan Nepean*April 1782: Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton...
 where he remained until 2003 when he became the Deputy Chief Whip (also known as the Treasurer of the Household
Treasurer of the Household

The position of Treasurer of the Household is theoretically held by a household official of the British monarch, under control of the Lord Steward Department, but is, in fact, a political office held by one of the government's Deputy Chief Whips in the British House of Commons....
). On 29 June 2007, he moved to become the Minister of State
Minister of State

Minister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a "minister of state" is a junior Political minister, who is assigned to assist a specific cabinet ....
 for the Armed Forces, replacing Adam Ingram
Adam Ingram (Labour politician)

Adam Paterson Ingram is a British politician, and Member of Parliament for East Kilbride. He is a member of the Labour Party .Early life...
.

Ainsworth was appointed to the Privy Council in February 2005.

External links

  • Local Labour Party site