Jack Dromey | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2019 | |
Shadow Minister for Immigration | |
In office 4 December 2021 – 7 January 2022 | |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Bambos Charalambous |
Succeeded by | Stephen Kinnock |
Shadow Paymaster General | |
In office 7 January 2021 – 4 December 2021 | |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Fleur Anderson |
Shadow Minister for Pensions | |
In office 12 January 2018 – 7 January 2021 | |
Leader | Jeremy Corbyn Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Alex Cunningham |
Succeeded by | Matt Rodda |
Shadow Minister for Labour | |
In office 10 October 2016 – 12 January 2018 | |
Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Laura Pidcock |
Shadow Minister for Policing | |
In office 7 October 2013 – 27 June 2016 | |
Leader | Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (Acting) Jeremy Corbyn |
Preceded by | David Hanson |
Succeeded by | Lyn Brown |
Shadow Minister for Housing | |
In office 7 October 2010 – 7 October 2013 | |
Leader | Harriet Harman (Acting) Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | Lyn Brown |
Succeeded by | Andy Sawford |
Treasurer of the Labour Party | |
In office 30 September 2004 – 26 September 2010 | |
Leader | Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
Preceded by | Jimmy Elsby |
Succeeded by | Diana Holland |
Member of Parliament for Birmingham Erdington | |
In office 6 May 2010 – 7 January 2022 | |
Preceded by | Siôn Simon |
Succeeded by | Paulette Hamilton |
Personal details | |
Born | John Eugene Joseph Dromey 29 September 1948 Brent, London, England |
Died | 7 January 2022 Birmingham, England | (aged 73)
Political party | Labour |
Spouse(s) | |
Children | 3 |
Website | www |
John Eugene Joseph Dromey[1] (29 September 1948 – 7 January 2022)[2] was a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist. He was Deputy General Secretary of Unite from 2003 to 2010. He also was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Erdington from 2010 until his death.
Dromey was the Shadow Minister for Housing from 2010 until 2013, when he became the Shadow Minister for Policing. He was Shadow Minister for Labour in October 2016.[3] He was made the Shadow Minister for Pensions in 2018 until 2021.
He also was the Treasurer of the Labour Party.[4]
Dromey was married to MP Harriet Harman, former deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1982 until his death.
He was a critic of Labour and Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn.[5]
Dromey died suddenly from heart failure on 7 January 2022 at his home in Birmingham, England at the age of 73.[6]