Parliamentary Career
Kerry Pollard raised an early day motion in the House of Commons on Monday 19 April 1999 in support of Bradford & Bingley Building Society's fight to stay mutual. He urged Bradford & Bingley members to vote against moves to force Britain's second-largest building society to convert to a bank, saying "the early day motion will express the fear that were Bradford & Bingley Building Society to become a bank, the entire building society movement will be damaged directly."
In the UK Parliament, Pollard opposed the US-led wars in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, but his most consistent aberrations from the party instructions were over benefits - he voted on several occasions against cuts in state benefits. Pollard chaired the all-party small business group.
A Christian socialist, Pollard took a conservative line on questions of personal morality, he was a member of the all-party pro-life group and was one of a handful of Labour MPs to oppose the equalisation of the age of consent.
As an MP, he appeared on former BBC day time chat show Kilroy (television series), contributing to topics such as the problem of personal debt, with comments including “Surely the banks have some sort of responsibility?”
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