Dennis Skinner

Skinner refused to pair, to travel abroad on parliamentary trips or to take up the social side of Westminster, and spent his time in the chamber or in Bolsover. He held the seat from 1970 to 2019, through pit closures that devastated its villages, and was valued locally for fighting individual cases on compensation for miners' lung disease and vibration white finger. His defeat by a Conservative in 2019 after 49 years showed how far the Brexit realignment reached.