In the 1997 election, he took 68.2% against Conservative Andrew Selous, who ranked in second place with just 16.7% of the vote.
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He was first elected in the 1992 General Election for Sunderland North, replacing fellow left-winger, Bob Clay.
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He became a fitter for Beal & Co in Sunderland in 1962, before joining the National Coal Board in 1963 and for the following twenty years worked as a fitter at the Dawdon Colliery in County Durham.
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He was an apprentice fitter at the Austin and Pickersgill Shipyard in Sunderland for five years from 1957.
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