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David Julian Winnick (born 26 June 1933 ) is a politician in the United Kingdom . He is Labour Member Of Parliament (MP) for Walsall North . Winnck was an advertising manager and a branch chairman of the Clerical And Administrative Workers Union . He was a councillor from 1959 on Willesden Borough Council, then the London Borough Of Brent . Winnick was first elected as an MP in 1966 , for Croydon South (now the area roughly covered by Croydon Central Constituency ), defeating incumbent Richard Thompson . He lost his seat to Thompson in 1970 , stood again in Croydon in October 1974 and was returned for Walsall North in 1979 . Winnick is generally regarded as on the left of the Labour Party and has a strong commitment to human rights. That commitment, however, also made him a strong voice in the House of Commons against both the Taliban and Saddam Hussein and he supported the 2003 Invasion Of Iraq . On 9 November 2005, Winnick's amendment to a government bill on detention of terrorist suspects without trial - proposing that the maximum period of detention should be 28 days, rather than 90 - passed in the House Of Commons by 323 votes to 290, shortly after the government's 90-day proposal was defeated by 322 to 291. This was Tony Blair 's first Commons defeat on a whipped vote, after nearly nine years as Prime Minister, and may come to be seen as a critical moment of his term in office. EXTERNAL LINKS
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