David Wright (politician)
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David Wright is a British
United Kingdom
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 Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
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 politician
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 who has been the Member of Parliament
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 (MP) for Telford
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 since 2001
United Kingdom general election, 2001
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. He was an assistant government whip
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 from June 2009 to May 2010.

Early and personal life

He went to Wrockwardine Wood
Wrockwardine Wood
Wrockwardine Wood was originally a detached piece of woodland, then a township, formerly belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine. Wrockwardine is located approximately 17 miles from Wrockwardine Wood....

 Comprehensive School on New Road in Telford then New College, Telford
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. He graduated from Wolverhampton Polytechnic with a degree in Humanities. He worked in the regeneration
Urban renewal
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 of Sandwell
Sandwell
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 for thirteen years.

He married Lesley in 1990.

He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing
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.

Political career

Wright was a Town Councillor in Oakengates
Oakengates
Oakengates is a town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, and now forms part of the new town of Telford...

 1989-2000 and a Wrekin District Councillor from 1989-97. He was elected Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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 for Telford
Telford (UK Parliament constituency)
Telford is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...

 in the 2001 general election
United Kingdom general election, 2001
The United Kingdom general election, 2001 was held on Thursday 7 June 2001 to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. It was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media, as the Labour Party was re-elected with another landslide result and only suffered a net loss of 6 seats...

. In June 2009 he became a government whip
Whip (politics)
A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy...

.

On 15 February 2010 he became involved in a scandal when an entry on his Twitter
Twitter
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 microblog called Conservative Party members "scum
Scum
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 sucking pigs", although he claimed his account had been hacked.

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