Ian Lavery Ian Lavery Ian Lavery (born 6 January 1963) is a British Labour Party politician and former trade union leader from Northumberland who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wansbeck since the 2010 general election. Born and raised in Ashington, Lavery began work in the construction industry after leaving school before becoming a mining apprentice. Noted for being the sole apprentice to refuse to work during the miners' strike of 1984-1985, he gradually rose up the ranks of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and was chosen to succeed Arthur Scargill as NUM President in 2002. Once elected to
Arthur Scargill this. The prosecution brought by the Certification Officer was rejected in July 1991 on the grounds that it would be inappropriate to use the material provided in confidence to Lightman's enquiry. The South Wales area leader, Des Dutfield, moved that Scargill should stand down and face re-election, but the motion was defeated. Socialist film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's "Dispatches" series. The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. The editor of the "Daily Mirror" of the time, Roy Greenslade, wrote an article in the Guardian in May 2002 to