About Michael Meacher
Michael Hugh Meacher was a British politician who served as a government minister under Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham West and Royton, previously Oldham West, from 1970 until his death in 2015. Hubert Meacher's first cousin was the judge Clement Bailhache. Meacher was educated at Berkhamsted School, at the time an all-boys independent school, to which he won a scholarship. Meacher became a researcher and lecturer in social administration at the Essex and York universities and wrote a book about elderly people's treatment in mental hospitals. On 23 September 2006, Meacher became the sixth Labour MP to start a blog.
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