John Hemming (politician)
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Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley |
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In office 5 May 2005 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Estelle Morris |
| Succeeded by | Jess Phillips |
| Majority | 3,002 (7.3%) |
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John Alexander Melvin Hemming 16 March 1960 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Democrat |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Website | http://john.hemming.name |
John Alexander Melvin Hemming (born 16 March 1960) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and a businessman. He served as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 2005 to 2015.
Hemming was an elected councillor for the South Yardley Ward and Group Chair of the Liberal Democrats on Birmingham City Council until 1 May 2008. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley at the 2005 general election. He was the first Liberal or Liberal Democrat to win a parliamentary seat in Birmingham since Wallace Lawler won in Birmingham Ladywood in 1969. In 2004, Hemming became deputy leader of Birmingham City Council in a deal where the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats shared control of the City Council. He stood down from this position on his election to parliament in 2005.
In 2007 he became Liberal Democrat Spokesman for the West Midlands and led the West Midlands Liberal Democrat team of spokespeople with Lorely Burt as the Deputy Leader.
Hemming was born in Birmingham. His father was an electrical contractor and his mother a supply teacher. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he won the Rickard Prize for Arithmetic and was a Scholar specialising in Theoretical, Atomic and Nuclear Physics at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he showed an early interest in politics, standing as the Liberal Party candidate for Secretary of the Oxford University Student Union. He was beaten into fourth place by the 'Silly Party' candidate – the pet dog of the master of St Catherine's College, Oxford.
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