Gerry Bermingham

Who is Gerry Bermingham?

Gerald Edward Bermingham is a British politician, and was Labour Member of Parliament for St Helens South from 1983 until 2001.

He was born 20 August 1940 in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Cotton College, Wellingborough Grammar School and Sheffield University, where he obtained a degree in law. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1967, and was called to the Bar in 1985. He was a Sheffield City councillor from 1975 to 1979. He contested South East Derbyshire in 1979.

In 1994, he was one of six Labour MPs who voted against any reduction in the age of consent for homosexuals, even to 18.

On his retirement, he was succeeded by Shaun Woodward, a Conservative defector, who swapped his old seat of Witney to represent the ultra-safe St Helens South.