Tony Clarke

My Experience

Tony was Born in Northampton, and lives in the town with his wife and two children. Leaving school at 15 he began a career which started as roofer. He has also been a lumberjack, dry stone waller, training and personnel manager, a social work lecturer, spent 14 yrs working for the County Council, 10 yrs as a member of the Borough Council, and 8 yrs as MP for Northampton S. In Parliament he was renowned for his independent views. He was also a Special Constable with Northamptonshire Police and is currently a Director of NTFC, and Independent Borough and County Councillor for Castle Ward. Tony mixes his local community work with international activity, a former Chair of the Northern Ireland Select Committee, Tony represented the Government, working with parliaments, paramilitaries and suspected terrorists in Northern Ireland, Palestine/Middle East, Albania and South Africa specialising on conflict resolution and election monitoring. He said recently “after the ravages of parliament, 20 yrs of Labour party internal politics, and having to deal with paramilitaries and also drunks in the town centre, turning round the fortunes of the Cobblers would only be “marginally more difficult”