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David Hallam is a British Labour Party politician. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the He was Member of the European Parliament for the counties of Hereford, Shropshire and the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England, in the 1994-1999 European Parliament. A Member of the European Parliament ( English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Union 's legislative body the European Parliament. Hereford ( ˈhɛrɨfəd is a city, Civil parish and County town of Herefordshire, England. Shropshire (ˈʃrɒpʃɪə/ /-ʃə alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated in print only Shrops, is a county in the Parishes in Wyre Forest District Kidderminster is unparished Areley Kings Bewdley Broome Worcestershire (ˈwʊstəʃə abbreviated Worcs) is a county located in the West Midlands region of central England.

David Hallam was an active member of the Agricultural and Rural Affairs Committee and played an important part in the European Union's response to the BSE crisis which affected British farming during his term of office. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ( BSE) commonly known as Mad-Cow Disease ( MCD) is a fatal Neurodegenerative disease in Cattle

Outside of the European Parliament's chamber and committee rooms, David Hallam was the President of the monthly Prayer Breakfast.

In 1984 David stood for the European Parliament in the Shropshire and Stafford constituency, he stood again in 1989 and was finally elected on revised boundaries in 1994.

David Hallam was one of many Labour Party members who opposed Labour leaders' Tony Blair's re-writing of the common ownership Clause IV in the Labour Party constitution. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to Clause IV of the United Kingdom Labour Party constitution sets out the aims and values of the party and has been the object of political fights over its direction From then on he was something of a "marked man" and many in the Labour leadership were determined to marginalise him. In addition he was very sceptical about the benefits of bio-technology, especially its patenting, and obviously expressed his opposition to religious intolerance.

In 1998 the Labour government introduced the socalled "regional list" system and every effort was made to ensure that Hallam and others were not re-elected in 1999.

Since leaving the European Parliament David Hallam has continued with his work as an unpaid Methodist preacher. Methodism is a movement within Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations He has earned his living in public relations and in 2003 published his first book "Eliza Asbury" which chronicled the life of the mother of Francis Asbury, the first Bishop of the Methodist Church in the United States. Francis Asbury ( August 20 1745 &ndash March 31 1816) was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the

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