George Mudie (politician)

George Mudie
Deputy Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons Treasurer of the Household
In office 2 May 1997 – 27 July 1998
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Andrew MacKay
Succeeded by	Keith Bradley
Member of Parliament for Leeds East
In office 9 April 1992 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by	Denis Healey
Succeeded by	Richard Burgon
Leader of Leeds City Council
In office 1980–1989
Preceded by	Peter Sparling
Succeeded by	Jon Trickett
Leeds City Councillor for Seacroft Ward
In office 1971–1992
Preceded by	D. Ball
Succeeded by	Graham Hyde
Personal details
Born	George Edward Mudie (1945-02-06) 6 February 1945 Dundee, Angus, Scotland
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Children	3

George Edward Mudie (born 6 February 1945) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds East from 1992 to 2015.

Early life

Born in Dundee, Scotland's fourth-largest city, Mudie was educated at the Waid Academy in Anstruther and later studied Social Studies at Newbattle Abbey College in Dalkeith. He worked initially as an engineer and then joined the merchant navy. In 1968 he became a trade union official with the National Union of Public Employees, a position he held until his election to the House of Commons in 1992.

Parliamentary career

Mudie was elected as a Leeds City Councillor in 1971 at the age of 26 and became the Council Leader from 1980 to 1989, elected as the authority's youngest leader to date at the age of 35 following the 1980 council election.

He was then elected as the Labour MP for Leeds East at the 1992 General Election following the retirement of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey. He held the seat comfortably until his retirement in 2015.

In Parliament he was appointed as an Opposition Whip in 1994, a position he held until the Labour landslide at the 1997 election when he was elevated to become the Treasurer of HM Household and Deputy Chief Whip. In 1998 he was appointed as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education and Employment. He returned to the back benches in 1999.

He served on a number of select committees, and was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from 2001 to 2014.

In February 2013, Mudie voted against the second reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. Subsequently, in May 2013 the MP voted against the bill’s third and final reading, opposing the legalisation of same-sex marriage within England and Wales.

Personal life

He is married with three children, one from a former marriage. He named his eldest son Keir after Keir Hardie. His wife is a retired primary school headmistress.

External links

• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: George Mudie MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - George Mudie MP
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Mudie
• BBC Politics Archived 15 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine