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Mellor was chairman of the incoming Labour government's 'Football Task Force' from August 1997 until its dissolution in 1999. Among the recommendations accepted by the Labour government and introduced into law was to make criminal racial abuse by an individual spectator, as distinct from groups.
Mellor has also pursued a career in journalism, and has written columns for six national newspapers including the Evening Standard, The Guardian and The People, often on current affairs, but also his specialist interests of sport and the arts. Famously a fanatical Chelsea fan, he regularly presented football-related programmes on BBC Radio 5 until 2001, and classical music programmes on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 3. In 1994 he won the Variety Club's "BBC Radio Personality of the Year" award. He currently presents "David Mellor" and The New CD Show on Classic FM. He is Opera and Classical Music critic for Britain's biggest-selling mid-market newspaper the Mail on Sunday. He is a regular presenter/contributor on LBC Radio, in particular a Saturday morning politics and current affairs discussion programme alongside Labour’s former London Mayor, Ken Livingstone. From March–May 2012, he was temporarily partnered on air by former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who replaced Ken Livingstone when he took up the campaign to again become London Mayor. However, after the lost mayoral elections of 2012, Ken Livingstone rejoined David Mellor on the Saturday programme on LBC. A natural Speaker, he has been a fixture on the “After Dinner” speech circuit since leaving government in 1992. Since leaving office has pursued a highly-successful career as an international business consultant focusing heavily on the Middle East and China. He has been a senior advisor to a wide-range of blue-chop companies as diverse as Ernst and Young, BAE Systems, Aedas, and a major Gulf-based Islamic bank. He is also senior partner of an investment brokerage company with offices in London and Hong Kong.
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