Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Hampstead

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Anthony James Clarke, Baron Clarke of Hampstead (born 1932) is an English trade unionist and Labour Party politician.

A former telegraph boy and postman, in 1979 Clarke became a full-time official of the Union of Postal Workers, which in 1980 became the Union of Communication Workers (UCW). He edited the UPW journal "The Post" in 1979, and served as the UCW's Deputy General Secretary from 1981 to 1993.

Clarke was a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee from 1983 to 1993, and served as Chairman of The Labour Party from 1992 to 1993.

He became a life peer in 1998, as Baron Clarke of Hampstead, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden.

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Political offices
Preceded by
John Evans
Chair of the Labour Party
1992–1993
Succeeded by
David Blunkett