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Dale Campbell-Savours
Dale Norman Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours (born 23 August 1943) is a British Labour Party politician. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington from 1979 to 2001, he retired from the House of Commons due to ill health, and now sits in the House of Lords.
Campbell-Savours was educated at Keswick School, the first of three generations: his three sons and grandchildren also attending; and at the Sorbonne. As a student in Paris, he witnessed incidents of violence on Parisian streets during the Algerian War, including a gun battle on the Rue Souflot. He travelled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East in his early 20s, returning to the UK in the mid-1960s. During his travels, he identified opportunities to use onyx marble as a material in manufacturing processes. He established an onyx clock and metal component manufacturing company in a former felt mill in the Lancashire town of Ramsbottom. Having established a market both at home and overseas, he sold out in 1976. His clocks were widely distributed in the UK and overseas, and trade to this day under the brand name Xavier of London.
A councillor on Ramsbottom Urban District Council from 1972 to 1974, he contested Darwen at both the February 1974 and October 1974 general elections and then Workington at a by-election in 1976. He was elected Member of Parliament for Workington at the 1979 general election. Throughout his 22-year membership of the Commons he was repeatedly subject to periods of illness, on each occasion presenting his party with the prospect of by-elections during politically volatile periods.
Campbell-Savours was opposition spokesman for International Development (1991–1992) and for Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs (1992–1994), resigning from the front bench in 1994 due to ill health: in 1995 half his lung was removed. He was a member of various select committees including: Public Accounts (1980–1991), Members Interest (1982–1990), Procedure (1984–1989), Agriculture (1994–1996), Standards and Privileges (1996–2001), and the Intelligence and Security Committee (1997–2001). He won a number of backbench awards during his period as a member of the House of Commons.
His repeated interventions in Parliament in the 1980s on land reclamation following closure of the Workington steel production plant led directly to the establishment of the West Cumberland Enterprise Zones, opening the door to later commercial developments.
Having negotiated the transfer of ownership of Maryport Harbour into the public sector, he secured support for dredging and harbour improvement, persuading William Waldergrave, then Secretary of State, of the need for financial support to deal with the harbour's contamination.
In 1990 Campbell-Savours established a research project on electoral reform, designing and stress-testing a new voting system: the Supplementary Vote. The system was adopted by the incoming Labour government in 1997 for the election of City Mayors and Police Commissioners.
During his 1990-1992 tenure as a shadow minister for international development, he spearheaded the creation of a working group with the remit to research the creation of a new Department for International Development (DFID) which was subsequently implemented by the incoming Labour government in 1997.
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Dale Campbell-Savours
Dale Norman Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours (born 23 August 1943) is a British Labour Party politician. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington from 1979 to 2001, he retired from the House of Commons due to ill health, and now sits in the House of Lords.
Campbell-Savours was educated at Keswick School, the first of three generations: his three sons and grandchildren also attending; and at the Sorbonne. As a student in Paris, he witnessed incidents of violence on Parisian streets during the Algerian War, including a gun battle on the Rue Souflot. He travelled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East in his early 20s, returning to the UK in the mid-1960s. During his travels, he identified opportunities to use onyx marble as a material in manufacturing processes. He established an onyx clock and metal component manufacturing company in a former felt mill in the Lancashire town of Ramsbottom. Having established a market both at home and overseas, he sold out in 1976. His clocks were widely distributed in the UK and overseas, and trade to this day under the brand name Xavier of London.
A councillor on Ramsbottom Urban District Council from 1972 to 1974, he contested Darwen at both the February 1974 and October 1974 general elections and then Workington at a by-election in 1976. He was elected Member of Parliament for Workington at the 1979 general election. Throughout his 22-year membership of the Commons he was repeatedly subject to periods of illness, on each occasion presenting his party with the prospect of by-elections during politically volatile periods.
Campbell-Savours was opposition spokesman for International Development (1991–1992) and for Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs (1992–1994), resigning from the front bench in 1994 due to ill health: in 1995 half his lung was removed. He was a member of various select committees including: Public Accounts (1980–1991), Members Interest (1982–1990), Procedure (1984–1989), Agriculture (1994–1996), Standards and Privileges (1996–2001), and the Intelligence and Security Committee (1997–2001). He won a number of backbench awards during his period as a member of the House of Commons.
His repeated interventions in Parliament in the 1980s on land reclamation following closure of the Workington steel production plant led directly to the establishment of the West Cumberland Enterprise Zones, opening the door to later commercial developments.
Having negotiated the transfer of ownership of Maryport Harbour into the public sector, he secured support for dredging and harbour improvement, persuading William Waldergrave, then Secretary of State, of the need for financial support to deal with the harbour's contamination.
In 1990 Campbell-Savours established a research project on electoral reform, designing and stress-testing a new voting system: the Supplementary Vote. The system was adopted by the incoming Labour government in 1997 for the election of City Mayors and Police Commissioners.
During his 1990-1992 tenure as a shadow minister for international development, he spearheaded the creation of a working group with the remit to research the creation of a new Department for International Development (DFID) which was subsequently implemented by the incoming Labour government in 1997.