The Lord Watts | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Official portrait, 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 15 March 2012 – 9 February 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Leader | Ed Miliband | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Tony Lloyd | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | John Cryer | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 10 May 2005 – 11 May 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | John Heppell | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Angela Watkinson | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal details | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 August 1951 St Helens, England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Avril Davies (m. 1972) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
David Leonard Watts, Baron Watts (born 26 August 1951) is a British politician and life peer who served in the Blair and Brown governments as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 2005 to 2010 and chaired the Parliamentary Labour Party as a backbencher from 2012 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for St Helens North from 1997 to 2015.