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Birkenhead MP Frank Field canvassing support for House of Commons Speaker job
Jun 1 2009 by Ian Hernon, Liverpool Echo
Frank Field
He said: "I will have to see if my colleagues’ constituents sway them to support me.”
Mr Field, 66, was a Conservative party member in his youth but left over South African apartheid during the 1960s.
He was director of the Child Poverty Action Group from 1969 to 1979 when he was elected to his safe Labour seat on the Mersey.
During the long opposition years Michael Foot appointed him education spokesman, and leadership successor Neil Kinnock made him a health front bencher.
He held both portfolios for a year.
After Tony Blair's 1997 election landslide he became minister for welfare reform with a brief to "think the unthinkable."
Since then he has been a ferocious government critic.
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