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British politician

For people with a similar name, see James Cunningham.

James Dolan Cunningham (born 4 February 1941) is a Labour Partypolitician in the United Kingdom.

He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry South from 1992 to 2019.

Early life

Cunningham was born in Coatbridge, Scotland and educated locally at Columba High School before attending the Trade Union College in Tillicoultry, where he completed a number of Ruskin courses on industrial relations and trade union law.^[1] In 1964, he became an engineer for Rolls-Royce in Ansty, joining the Labour Party in 1966 he became a shop steward with the predecessors of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union in the Rolls-Royce plant from 1968 throughout his service as a councillor and later Deputy Leader and then Leader of Coventry City Council.^[1]

Local government

Cunningham began his political career as a Coventry councillor in 1972 and became the