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Stephen Pound MP

Member of Parliament for Ealing North
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 1997
Preceded by	Harry Greenway
Succeeded by	Incumbent

Born	3 July 1948 (1948-07-03) (age 59)
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	London School of Economics

Stephen Pelham Pound (born 3 July 1948), commonly known as Steve Pound, is a British Labour party politician who has served as the MP for Ealing North, in London, since 1997. ^[1] He is also a minor media personality, making frequent appearances on various television and radio programmes.

1 Background
2 Political Career
3 Media Involvement
4 References
5 External links

Background

He was educated, as a mature student, at the London School of Economics^[2]. He used to be a boxer in the Merchant Navy, leading Private Eye magazine to refer to him as "Ealing North's tattooed bruiser". Prior to becoming an MP, he worked for Paddington Churches Housing association. He is married with two children. In January of 2005 it was also revealed that he fathered an illegitimate daughter when he was eighteen years old and was "out of control. " ^[3]

Political Career

He is the Labour member of Parliament for the Ealing North constituency, which he has represented since 1997. He served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Hazel Blears until he resigned in protest at the decision to replace Trident on March 14, 2007.^[4] He supported Hazel Blears in the Labour deputy leadership contest.

Media Involvement

In 2003 BBC’s Today Programme asked its listeners to suggest a law that they would like to see put onto the statue books. The BBC received 10,000 nominations and five were short-listed, from which listeners then voted to select their preferred choice. Stephen Pound agreed to sponsor in parliament whichever idea eventually won the final vote. On 1 January 2004 it was announced on air that first place with 37% of the vote had gone to the proposal to authorise homeowners to use any means to defend their home from intruders. (The controversial farmer Tony Martin was still very much in the news.) Stephen Pound’s on-air reaction to the result was that, "The people have spoken - the bastards". In May 2005, Pound appeared on British TV quiz show Have I Got News For You and in December of that year in a special edition of University Challenge.