- Born
- Birth nameDennis Edward Skinner
- Nickname
- The Beast of Bolsover
- Height5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)
- A former coal miner, renowned for his staunchly left-wing views and outstanding attendance and voting record in the House of Commons, as well as his barbed jibes that often bring the House into raptures of laughter, Dennis Skinner is one of the last survivors of the Labour Party's "Old Left". Skinner has been Member of Parliament for Bolsover since 1970 and was once given by The Independent newspaper the moniker of "The Beast That Roars From The Pits".
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- His scathing comments
- His left-wing speeches
- A major critic of the European Union, he campaigned for Britain to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum.
- After Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron taunted him in the House of Commons by telling him several times to retire, he became determined to run for re-election and was returned as MP for Bolsover in 2015 at the age of 83.
- He was falsely reported to have died in September 2020.
- He was too ill to campaign in the December 2019 General Election where he lost his safe Labour seat to the Conservatives. Skinner had contracted a severe infection after undergoing hip surgery.
- Treated for advanced bladder cancer, and had heart bypass surgery in 2003.
- When posh boys are in trouble, they sack the servants.
- [on David Dimbleby] One of the chattering classes that believes in proportional representation.
- Let's get back to basics and let's represent our class. Let's talk about building houses, let's talk about getting down the dole queues, let's talk about taking on the bosses.
- [on David Owen, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and Paddy Ashdown] I've been fed up this last decade of listening to Doctor Death and Shirley Poppins and Woy of the Wadicals and now this Paddy Backdown.
- Why do we need the Liberals?
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