Editing Adrian Bailey

{{Short description|British politician (born 1945)}}
{{About||the geographer|Adrian Bailey (academic)|the similarly named MP|Adrian Baillie}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = 
| name                = Adrian Bailey
| honorific-suffix    = 
| image               = Official portrait of Mr Adrian Bailey crop 2.jpg
| office              = Chairman of the [[Business, Innovation and Skills Committee|Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee]]
| term_start          = 10 June 2010
| term_end            = 30 March 2015
| leader              = 
| predecessor         = [[Peter Luff]]
| successor           = [[Iain Wright]]
| office2             = [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[West Bromwich West (UK Parliament constituency)|West Bromwich West]]
| majority2           = 
| predecessor2        = [[Betty Boothroyd]]
| successor2          = [[Shaun Bailey (West Bromwich MP)|Shaun Bailey]]
| term_start2         = 23 November 2000
| term_end2           = 6 November 2019
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1945|12|11}}
| birth_place         = [[Salisbury]], Wiltshire, England
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| nationality         = British
| spouse              = Jill Bailey
| party               = [[Labour and Co-operative|Labour Co-op]]
| relations           = 
| children            = 
| residence           = 
| alma_mater          = [[University of Exeter]], [[Loughborough University]]
| occupation          = 
| profession          = 
| religion            = 
| signature           = 
| website             = [https://www.adrianbaileymp.com/ https://www.adrianbaileymp.com/] [http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/mr-adrian-bailey/320 parliament..adrian-bailey]
| footnotes           = 
| caption             = Official portrait, 2017
}}
'''Adrian Edward Bailey''' (born 11 December 1945) is a retired British [[Labour and Co-operative]] politician. He was the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[West Bromwich West (UK Parliament constituency)|West Bromwich West]] from 2000, when he won the seat at a [[2000 West Bromwich West by-election|by-election in November 2000]] until he stood down at the [[2019 United Kingdom general election|general election in 2019]]. He was the Chairman of the [[Business, Innovation and Skills Committee]] 2010–2015.

==Early life==

Born in [[Salisbury]], Bailey was educated at [[Cheltenham Grammar School]] before going on to university at the [[University of Exeter]], graduating in 1967 with an Honours Degree in Economic History.<ref name="politics">{{cite web|last1=Bailey|first1=Adrian|title=Biography|url=http://www.politics.co.uk/reference/adrian-edward-bailey|website=Politics.co.uk|accessdate=17 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922145223/http://www.politics.co.uk/reference/adrian-edward-bailey|archive-date=22 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Subsequently, he trained at the [[Loughborough]] College of Librarianship and graduated in 1971 with a postgraduate diploma in Librarianship. From 1971–1982 he was employed as a professional librarian by Cheshire County Council and from 1973 to 1982 he also worked as a librarian and teacher of [[study skills]] in a Cheshire Comprehensive school.<ref name="politics" />

==Political career==

Bailey contested the seat of [[South Worcestershire (UK Parliament constituency)|South Worcestershire]] at the [[1970 United Kingdom general election|1970 general election]], where he was easily defeated by [[Gerald Nabarro]]. At both the [[February 1974 United Kingdom general election|February 1974 general election]] and [[October 1974 United Kingdom general election|October 1974 general election]] he unsuccessfully contested the Cheshire seat of [[Nantwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Nantwich]], where he was defeated by [[John Cockroft (politician)|John Cockcroft]].

In 1976, the [[Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)|Speaker of the House of Commons]], [[Selwyn Lloyd]] decided to stand down from [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|the Commons]], and Bailey contested the [[1976 Wirral by-election|resulting by-election]]. However, he was again easily defeated, this time by [[David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral|David Hunt]], who was later to enter the Cabinet of [[John Major]]. Bailey was not to fight a Parliamentary election again for 24 years, but contested and lost the [[Cheshire West (European Parliament constituency)|Cheshire West]] European seat in [[1979 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|1979]].

In 1982, Bailey moved to the West Midlands to become a full-time political organiser for the [[Co-operative Party]] covering the Midlands and South Yorkshire region. He held this post until his election to Parliament in 2000.<ref name="politics" />

He was elected as a councillor for [[Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council|Sandwell Borough Council]] in 1991 and was its Deputy Leader from 1997 to 2000. At the time of the resignation of Commons Speaker, [[Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd of Sandwell|Betty Boothroyd]] in 2000, Bailey was the Secretary of the constituency Labour Party and Deputy Leader of the local council and seemed the obvious choice to fight what was then a safe Labour seat in the impending [[2000 West Bromwich West by-election|by-election]]. He was chosen to fight the seat and won fairly comfortably on 23 November 2000, entering the Commons 30 years after his first attempt. He is unusual in that he has contested two Parliamentary by-elections caused by the resignation of two different Speakers of the House of Commons.

Following its establishment in 2002, Bailey took the position of Secretary of The All Party Parliamentary Group for Steel which acts as a group to promote the interests of the steel manufacturing industry and the communities that work in that industry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uksteel.org.uk/appg/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030822020645/http://www.uksteel.org.uk/appg/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 August 2003|title=All Party Parliamentary Group on Steel|date=22 August 2003}}</ref>

Following the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]], Bailey became a [[Parliamentary Private Secretary]] to the [[Secretary of State for Work and Pensions]] and served successive Secretaries of State, [[David Blunkett]] and [[John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness|John Hutton]]. He also served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to [[Bob Ainsworth]], the [[Minister of State]] at the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]].

He supported [[Owen Smith]] in the failed attempt to replace [[Jeremy Corbyn]] in the [[2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://labourlist.org/2016/07/which-mps-and-meps-have-nominated-owen-smith/|title=Full list of MPs and MEPs backing challenger Owen Smith|date=2016-07-21|website=LabourList|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715214543/https://labourlist.org/2016/07/which-mps-and-meps-have-nominated-owen-smith/|archive-date=15 July 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

He retired at the [[2019 United Kingdom general election]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/AdrianBaileyMP/status/1189577564605550592|title=Adrian Bailey MP on Twitter|date=2019-10-30|website=Twitter|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-10-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030164213/https://twitter.com/AdrianBaileyMP/status/1189577564605550592|archive-date=30 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Personal life==

In 1989 Bailey married Jill, a schoolteacher.<ref name="politics" />

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{UK MP links | parliament = mr-adrian-bailey/320 | hansard = mr-adrian-bailey | guardian = 185/adrian-bailey | publicwhip = Adrian_Bailey | theywork = adrian_bailey/west_bromwich_west | record = Adrian-Bailey/West-Bromwich-West/21 | bbc = 25800.stm | journalisted = }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110716063120/http://yourdemocracy.newstatesman.com/profile/adrian-bailey Adrian Bailey Profile] at ''[[New Statesman]]'' Your democracy
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