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Frank Field


Born
in Edmonton, Middlesex, The United Kingdom
July 16, 1942

Died
April 23, 2024

Website


British politician elected to Parliament 1979 as Member for Birkenhead.

Minister for Welfare Reform, May 1997-July 1998
Former Director of Child Poverty Action Group and the Low Pay Unit, former chair of the Social Security Select Committee.

From his website:
Representing Birkenhead in Parliament

In 1979 Frank was elected Member of Parliament for Birkenhead and has since displayed a unique attachment to his constituency. During the 1980s he led the campaign to make the Labour Party electable, which not only involved the very public countering of Trotskyites in Birkenhead, but also the development of policies which had widespread appeal. To this end, he led the transformation of the debate on welfare from one that believed in a process of pure a
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“Heresy comes so often not by spreading falsehoods but by the assertion of a single truth, and running that truth in isolation from any balancing”
Frank Field, Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir