Ian Austin
Ian Austin (born 6 March 1965) is a British politician who was MP for Dudley North. Austin was elected in 2005 and in 2010 he was re-elected with a majority of 649 votes. [1] He was re-elected in 2015 after increasing his majority to 4,181.[2]'. Formerly a member of the Labour Party, he resigned from the party on 22 February 2019 to sit as an independent. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010.
Austin is a former deputy director of communications for the Scottish Labour Party (working for Gordon Brown), he was brought in as Brown's spin-doctor as a replacement for Charlie Whelan in June 1999. He had previously been the Labour Party's West Midlands press officer, since 1995 and is now, July 2007, Brown's PPS. [3]
Staff
Circa 2016
- Jennifer Gerber - Director, Labour Friends of Israel | Callum Hood | Samuel Mountney | Harry Nicol [4]
Circa 2019
Affiliations
- Tackling Terrorism All-Party Parliamentary Group
- Sub-Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy, Member [6]
- Mainstream UK
- Campaign Against Antisemitism
Contact
Parliamentary
- Address: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
- Telephone: 020 7219 8012
- Fax: 020 7219 4488
- Email: austini@parliament.uk
Constituency
- Address: Turner House, 157-185 Wrens Nest Road, Dudley, DY1 3RU
- Telephone: 01384 342503/4
- Email: austini@parliament.uk
Web & Social media
- Website: http://www.ianaustin.co.uk
Notes
- ↑ Ian Austin politics.co.uk, accessed 12 March 2015
- ↑ BBC News Labour's Ian Austin holds off Dudley challenge, 8 May 2015, accessed 11 May 2015.
- ↑ Ian Austin MP 10 Downing Street, accessed 12 March 2015
- ↑ Register Of Interests Of Members' Secretaries And Research Assistants 5 May 2016, parliament.uk, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 8 June 2016, accessed 15 November 2019
- ↑ Register Of Interests Of Members' Secretaries And Research Assistants 5 November 2019, parliament.uk, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 8 June 2016, accessed 15 November 2019
- ↑ Dods Monitoring, New Appointmentswww.politicshome.com, accessed 21 December 2015