About Jon Cruddas
Jonathan Cruddas is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dagenham and Rainham, formerly Dagenham, between 2001 and 2024. Cruddas chose to contest the newly created constituency of Dagenham and Rainham, which was notionally marginal. On 24 June 2007, it was announced that Harriet Harman had won the election, although Cruddas gained the highest proportion of votes in the first round. He won the seat by 2,630 votes in a close-run election campaign, which was a seat that the British National Party had heavily targeted. From the backbenches, Cruddas quickly became a vocal critic of the government for what he saw as their ignoring of their traditional, working-class support in a bid to be more appealing to middle-class voters.
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