Editing Neil Turner (British politician)

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| office = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Wigan (UK Parliament constituency)|Wigan]]
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| predecessor = [[Roger Stott]]
| successor = [[Lisa Nandy]]
| term_start = 23 September 1999
| term_end = 12 April 2010
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| birth_place = [[Carlisle, Cumbria|Carlisle]], [[Cumbria]], England
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| nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
| spouse = Susan Price
| party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
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'''Neil Turner''' (born 16 September 1945) is a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician in the [[United Kingdom]] and former [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Wigan (UK Parliament constituency)|Wigan]]. He was elected in a [[1999 Wigan by-election|1999 by-election]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/440373.stm |title=Labour selects Wigan candidate |work=BBC News |date=7 September 1999}}</ref> and stood down at the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]].

==Early life==
Turner went to Carlisle Grammar School, which became the [[Trinity School (Carlisle)|Trinity School]] in 1968.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliamentaryrecord.com/content/profiles/mp/Neil-Turner/596 |title=WPR – Neil Turner (Ex-MP) |work=parliamentaryrecord.com |year=2013 |access-date=28 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203132639/http://www.parliamentaryrecord.com/content/profiles/mp/Neil-Turner/596 |archive-date=3 December 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He was a [[quantity surveyor]] for Fairclough Builders, which became [[AMEC]], from 1967–94, then was Operations Director for [[North Shropshire]] District Council from 1995–7.

==Parliamentary career==
He represented the North West Region on the National Committee of the Labour Party Young Socialists in 1970, following [[Roger Stott]]. He contested the seat of [[Oswestry (UK Parliament constituency)|Oswestry]] in 1970. He was the [[Parliamentary Private Secretary]] to [[Ian McCartney]] as: [[Minister of State]], [[Department for Work and Pensions]] 2001–03, [[Minister without portfolio (United Kingdom)|Minister without Portfolio]] and Party Chairman 2003–06 and [[Secretary of State for Trade and Industry|Minister of State for Trade]] 2006–07.

When a [[dyslexia|dyslexic]] constituent, Stephen Halsall (a psychiatric nurse), sent him a letter in March 2001 complaining about a drug rehabilitation unit being built near to him, Turner returned the letter to the constituent with all the spelling and grammatical errors underlined and annotated in red ink, e.g., ''we only have 1 Labour Party – should be Party's''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2177054.stm|title=Neil Turner|date=2002-10-16|access-date=2018-06-30|language=en-GB}}</ref>

On 31 July 2009, Turner announced his decision to stand down at the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/politics/2009/07/post_753.html |title=Neil Turner stands down |newspaper=[[Manchester Evening News]] |date=2009-07-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090807043919/http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/politics/2009/07/post_753.html |archive-date=7 August 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Personal life==
Turner married Susan Price on 26 March 1971 in Wigan and has one son. He follows [[Wigan Warriors]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-5272,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle: Neil Turner MP]
* [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/neil_turner/wigan TheyWorkForYou.com – Neil Turner MP]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/630.stm BBC Politics]{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-neil-turner | Neil Turner }}

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