john woodcock Biography
john woodcockwas born on 14 October 1978 is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barrow and Furness from 2010 to 2019. Woodcock was suspended and subsequently had the Labour whip withdrawn on 30 April 2018 following allegations of sexual harassment made against him.
He then sat as an Independent Member of Parliament and on 18 July 2018 resigned from the Labour Party. He announced in November 2019 that he would not be standing in the 2019 general election.
john woodcock Age
John Zak Woodcock was born on 14 October 1978 is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament . He is 41 years as of 2019
john woodcock Early life
Woodcock was born in Sheffield to parents who were teachers, his mother at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology. His father was a Labour councillor. He was educated at Tapton School and the University of Edinburgh. While taking his degree he took time out to work as a journalist on The Scotsman, before returning to the university to complete his English and history degree.
Woodcock was elected to run the London branch of Labour Students, and then worked for the Labour Party on the 2005 general election campaign. He later worked as an aide to John Hutton from 2005 to 2008 and later as Special Adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown
john woodcock Career
In 2010 he was elected as MP for Barrow and Furness, a post he still holds, and after just five months in He was Shadow Minister for Transport from October 9, 2010, until January 9, 2013.
In December 2013 he announced he was suffering from depression and was having treatment for the condition.
In 2015 Mr Woodcock was appointed as Shadow Minister for Young People but he resigned the position in September 2015 after Jeremy Corbyn was elected as party leader.
He has remained a fierce critic of the Labour leader through the past few years.
On April 30, 2018, Mr Woodcock was suspended from the Labour Party following allegations of sexual harassment.
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john woodcock Marriage
Woodcock was married to Mandy Telford, former President of the National Union of Students.They have two daughters. The couple separated in late 2014, and Telford returned to live in Scotland with the children. They divorced in 2015.
Woodcock is in a relationship with the journalist Isabel Hardman, assistant editor of the The Spectator magazine, generally supportive of the Conservative Party. In November 2019 Woodcock announced that Hardman was pregnant, so he would not be re-standing as a parliamentary candidate in the general election. He also stated he would be supporting a Conservative Party candidate in the General Election.
john woodcock Net Worth
John Woodcock’s net worth is $1 Million – $5 Million at the age of 41 years old. He earned the money being a professional Politician. He is from United Kingdom.
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Why was he suspended?
Mr Woodcock was suspended from the Labour Party on April 30, 2018, after sexual harassment claims were made against him by a former member of staff.
It is alleged that Mr Woodcock sent the woman inappropriate messages and it is claimed they made her feel so uncomfortable she left her job.
The ex-aide was allegedly sent a string of inappropriate messages between 2014 and 2016.
The MP said he was made aware of the allegations in December and in April he was suspended from the Labour party for investigation and is the latest MP caught up in a series of Westminster scandals.
What has he said about the allegations?
In a statement on Twitter on April 31, Woodcock said: “In November last year a complaint was made against me alleging sexual harassment.
“This following month, after considering initial evidence, I was informed that Labour’s harassment panel had referred the complaint to the party’s national constitutional committee and I should expect a hearing ‘early in the new year’.
“I was advised to maintain the confidentiality of the case to ensure the fairness of the process and to reassure other complainants that they could bring cases forward without being exposed to unwelcome publicity.
“I do not accept the charge being brought against me but have been co-operating fully with the process and remain committed to a thorough and fair investigation of the case.
“I am therefore very concerned that one of the very few individuals with knowledge of the case chose to place selective details of it in newspapers this weekend.
“Labour’s new general secretary has cited this publicity as a reason to suspend me from the Labour whip.
“The decision at this politically charged time to place details of my case in the press and then suspend me places a very serious question mark over the integrity of the process, which serves neither those making complaints or nor those facing allegations.
“I want this complaint to be judged in a way that is seen to be fair.
“In the meantime, I will continue working hard for my constituents in Parliament and in Furness, and will continue to speak out when I believe it is right to do so.”
Why did John Woodcock quit Labour?
On July 18 Mr Woodcock said he was leaving the party and would instead stand as an independent.
He claimed the party’s probe into the sexual harassment allegations against him were “rigged” due to his vocal opposition to Jeremy Corbyn.
In his resignation letter to Mr Corbyn, Mr Woodcock said the party he had campaigned for since he was a boy “is no longer the broad church it has always historically been”.
“Anti-Semitism is being tolerated and Labour has been taken over at nearly every level by the hard-left,” he said.
He added: “I have promised to fight for local jobs, protect the shipyard and ensure the safety of my constituents through strong defence and national security.
“I now believe more strongly than ever you have made Labour unfit to deliver those objectives.”
He told The Sun: “I think there are a number of other people who have just given up on the idea the Labour Party can ever be brought back to sanity.”
Challenged that he was jumping before he was pushed, Mr Woodcock insisted on his innocence – and he said there was no way that either he nor the victim would have had “justice”.
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He said he was now investigating whether to ask the parliamentary authorities to probe the case. He said: “The whole point is that I want to see justice.
A Labour spokesman told the BBC: “Jeremy thanks John for his service to the Labour Party.”