Neil Kinnock
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Baron Kinnock, born 28 March 1942), is a British politician.
He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn.
He was both the leader of the Labour Party and Opposition leader from 1983 to 1992. Despite the fact that the party was expected to win or a hung parliament, Kinnock led the Labour Party to a surprise fourth straight defeat at the 1992 general election.
He resigned as the Labour Party's Leader later on.
In 1995, he left the House of Commons to become a European Commissioner.
He went on to become the Vice President of the European Commission under Romano Prodi's reign from 1999 to 2004.
He served as Chairman of the British Council and President of Cardiff University before the summer of 2009.
Early life
Kinnock, a single child, was born in Tredegar, Wales. Gordon Herbert Kinnock, a former coal miner who later served as a labourer, died, and his mother, Mary Kinnock (née Howells), was a district nurse. Gordon died as a result of a heart attack in November 1971, at the age of 64; Mary died the following month at the age of 61.
Kinnock began his secondary education at Lewis School, Pengam, which he later chastised for its canning records. He went to the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, where he earned his degree in 1965 with a specialization in Industrial Relations and History. Kinnock earned a postgraduate diploma in education the following year. He worked as a tutor for the Workers' Educational Association from August 1966 to May 1970. (WEA).
Since 1967, he has been married to Glenys Kinnock. They have two children, Stephen Kinnock (born January 1970, now a Labour MP) and daughter Rachel Kinnock (born 1971).
Personal life
When not studying at University College, Cardiff, where Kinnock was described as "the power and the glory" (Glenys the power), they married on March 25, 1967. His wife served as the UK Minister for Africa and the United Nations from 2009 to 2010, as well as a Labour Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2009. She became one of the few couples to win honors in their own right when she was made a life peer in 2009. They moved to Tufnell Park, London, where they previously lived together in Peterston-super-Ely, a village on Cardiff's western outskirts of Cardiff, in 2008.
Stephen and Rachel have a son, Stephen, and a daughter, Rachel. Neil Kinnock, as his son Stephen, is now the father-in-law of Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Danish Prime Minister from 2011 to 2015.
After being found guilty of two speeding charges along the M4 motorway, west of London, Kinnock received a six-month driving ban on April 26th.
Lord Kinnock is a member of Cardiff City F.C. Fans and regular fans of football. He is also a follower of rugby union and supports London Welsh RFC at club level and enjoys Welsh RFC's regular appearances in Wales.
Both Chris Barrie and Steve Coogan appeared in the satirical TV show Spitting Image and Euan Cuthbertson in the Scottish film In Search of La Che.
Lord Kinnock was painted by artist Edward Sutcliffe in 2014. The portrait was on display at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition this year.
Kinnock has been described as an agnostic and an atheist. He is a Patron of Humanists in the United Kingdom, as his wife.
Post-parliamentary career
Kinnock announced his resignation as Leader of the Labour Party on 13 April 1992, ending nearly a decade in the role. John Smith, previously Shadow Chancellor, was elected on 18 July as his successor.
He remains on the Advisory Council of the Institute for Public Policy Research, which he helped set up in the 1980s.
Kinnock was an enthusiastic supporter of Ed Miliband's campaign for the Leadership of the Labour Party in 2010, and was reported as telling activists, when Miliband won, "We've got our party back" – although Miliband, like Kinnock, failed to lead the party back into government, and resigned after the Conservatives were re-elected with a small majority in 2015. Labour received their lowest seat tally under Miliband since the 1987 general election; when Kinnock was leader at that time.
In 2011, he participated in the Welsh family history television programme Coming Home where he discovered hitherto unknown information about his family.
Kinnock was appointed one of the UK's two members of the European Commission, which he served first as Transport Commissioner under President Jacques Santer, in early-1995; marking the end of his 25 years in the House of Commons. This came less than a year following the death of his successor, John Smith and the election of Tony Blair as the party's new leader.
He was obliged to resign as part of the forced, collective resignation of the Commission in 1999. He was re-appointed to the Commission under new President Romano Prodi. He now became one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Commission, with responsibility for Administrative Reform and the Audit, Linguistics and Logistics Directorates General. His term of office as a Commissioner was due to expire on 30 October 2004, but was delayed owing to the withdrawal of the new Commissioners. During this second term of office on the Commission, he was responsible for introducing new staff regulations for EU officials, a significant feature of which was substantial salary cuts for everyone employed after 1 May 2004, reduced pension prospects for many others, and gradually worsening employment conditions. This made him disliked by many EU staff members, although the pressure on budgets that largely drove these changes had actually been imposed on the Commission from above by the Member States in Council.
In February 2004, it was announced that with effect from 1 November 2004, Kinnock would become head of the British Council. Coincidentally, at the same time, his son Stephen became head of the British Council branch in St. Petersburg, Russia. At the end of October, it was announced that he would become a Member of the House of Lords (intending to be a working peer), when he was able to leave his EU responsibilities. In 1977, he had remained in the House of Commons, with Dennis Skinner, while other MPs walked to the Lords to hear the Queen's speech opening the new parliament. He had dismissed going to the Lords in recent interviews. Kinnock explained his change of attitude, despite the continuing presence of ninety hereditary peers and appointment by patronage, by asserting that the Lords was a good base for campaigning.
He was introduced to the House of Lords on 31 January 2005, after being created, on 28 January, Baron Kinnock, of Bedwellty in the County of Gwent. On assuming his seat, he stated; "I accepted the kind invitation to enter the House of Lords as a working peer for practical political reasons." When his peerage was first announced, he said, "It will give me the opportunity... to contribute to the national debate on issues like higher education, research, Europe and foreign policy."
His peerage meant that the Labour and Conservative parties were equal in numbers in the upper house of Parliament (subsequently the number of Labour members overtook the number of Conservative members for many years). Kinnock was a long-time critic of the House of Lords, and his acceptance of a peerage led him to be accused of hypocrisy, by Will Self, among others.