Ian Austin

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Ian Austin, MP for Dudley North

Ian Austin is the Labour Party 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]

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]

Affiliations

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

Notes

  1. Ian Austin politics.co.uk, accessed 12 March 2015
  2. BBC News Labour's Ian Austin holds off Dudley challenge, 8 May 2015, accessed 11 May 2015.
  3. Ian Austin MP 10 Downing Street, accessed 12 March 2015
  4. Dods Monitoring, New Appointmentswww.politicshome.com, accessed 21 December 2015