Warren Hawksley
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Philip Warren Hawksley known as Warren Hawksley, is a British
United Kingdom
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 Conservative
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 politician. He was educated at Denstone College
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. He contested Wolverhampton North East in February and October 1974. He was Member of Parliament
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 (MP) for the The Wrekin from 1979
United Kingdom general election, 1979
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 until he lost the seat to the Labour
Labour Party (UK)
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 candidate in 1987
United Kingdom general election, 1987
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. He was then MP for Halesowen and Stourbridge
Halesowen and Stourbridge (UK Parliament constituency)
Halesowen and Stourbridge was a parliamentary constituency in the West Midlands, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from February 1974 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election....

 from 1992
United Kingdom general election, 1992
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 until 1997, when the seat was abolished. He stood for the new seat of Stourbridge
Stourbridge (UK Parliament constituency)
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 that year, but lost to Labour's Debra Shipley
Debra Shipley
Debra Ann Shipley is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was Labour Party Member of Parliament for Stourbridge from 1997 until the 2005 general election, when she stood down for reasons of ill health...

 and has not re-entered the House of Commons
British House of Commons
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 since then.

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