David Reed (politician) and public relations. From 1990 to 2005, he was Director of Corporate Communications for Whitbread. The Sedgefield constituency was re-created in boundary changes for the 1983 general election, when future Prime Minister Tony Blair was elected as its MP. David Reed (politician) David Reed (24 April 1945 - 12 March 2017) was a Labour politician in the United Kingdom. In 1970, he was elected at the age of just 25 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield in County Durham. However, the constituency was abolished for the February 1974 general election, and Reed has not returned to Parliament since. In
Bethnal Green and Stepney (UK Parliament constituency) Bethnal Green and Stepney (UK Parliament constituency) Bethnal Green and Stepney was a parliamentary constituency in east London, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election. The constituency was only ever represented by the former cabinet minister Peter Shore, who held the seat for the Labour Party from its creation in 1983 to its abolition in 1997. The constituency was made up of nine electoral wards of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Holy Trinity, Redcoat, St Dunstan’s, St