Career
He was a maths teacher at Greenhead College in Huddersfield from 1973-9. He was Head of Maths at Barnsley Sixth Form College from 1979-90, then Senior Maths Lecturer at Barnsley College (it took over the sixth form college) from 1990-7.
He became a member of the UK Labour Party from 1977 and was elected to the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Council. After the metropolitan councils were disbanded under Margaret Thatcher, he was elected to, and led, Kirklees council from 1986-99.
In 2000, he became Chairman of the Environment Agency, and left in 2008.
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