David Crausby
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David Anthony Crausby (born 17 June 1946) British politician He is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Bolton North East
David Crausby was born in Bury and was educated locally at the Derby Grammar School in the town and the Bury Technical College. He began a career as a turner, becoming an apprentice centre lathe turner in 1962, leaving the profession in 1978 to take up the position of convenor at the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, in which position he remained until his election to the House of Commons. He was elected a councillor in 1979 to the then Bury District Council, he served as a councillor until 1992.
He contested the Bury North, having been just elected as the Chairman of the local constituency Labour Party, at the 1987 General Election but was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Alistair Burt by 6,911. He contested the ultra Conservative held marginal of Bolton North East at the 1992 General Election where the sitting MP Peter Thurnham was defending an 813 majority. The election in Bolton North East proved another tight tussle and Crausby failed to dislodge Thurnham by just 185. Thurnham retired at the 1997 General Election having crossed the floor and joined the Liberal Democrats on October 12, 1996. Crausby had no problem defeating the new Conservative candidate, Rob Wilson, by 12,669, and he has remained the MP there since. He made his maiden speech on July 17, 1997, in which he remembered the inventor of the spinning mule Samuel Crompton who was born in Bolton. [1]
In parliament, David Crausby joined the Social Security Select Committee in 1999, and has been a member of the Defence Select Committee since the 2001 General Election.
He has been married to Enid Anne Noon since 1965 and they have two sons.