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 Brady (politician) city's politics. In 1937, he was elected as Secretary of Glasgow Trades and Labour Council, the body at the time serving to represent both the local Labour Party and the city's trade union movement. In 1942, Labour decided to split the two posts, and Brady chose to become the secretary of the Glasgow Burgh Labour Party, resigning from the trades council role. Arthur Brady (politician) Arthur Walker Brady (died 19 February 1954) was a Scottish politician. Brady first came to prominence as a member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in Irvine. He was elected to Irvine Town Council, and