Reginald John Burchell (20 May 1883 – 20 June 1955) was an Australian politician.
 Born in Port Pirie, South Australia, he received a primary education before moving to Western Australia in 1897, where he became a railwayman and railway unionist.
 In 1913, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Fremantle, defeating the sitting Liberal member, William Hedges.
 In 1916, he joined Prime Minister Billy Hughes in leaving the Labor Party over the issue of conscription, joining Hughes' new National Labor Party.
 In 1917, the National Labor Party merged with the Liberal Party to form the Nationalist Party.
 Burchell retained his seat as a Nationalist in 1917 with a very large 25.2% swing.
 He retired in 1922, becoming a company manager and administrative officer in Melbourne.
 Burchell died in 1955.
Robert James Heffron (10 September 189027 July 1978), also known as R. J. Heffron, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, union organiser and Australian Labor Party Premier of New South Wales from 1959 to 1964.
 Born in New Zealand, Heffron became involved in various Socialist and Labor movements in New Zealand and later Australia before joining the Australian Labor Party.
 Being a prominent unionist organiser, having been gaoled at one stage for "conspiracy to strike action", he was eventually elected to the Parliament of New South Wales for Botany in 1930.
 However his disputes with party leader Jack Lang led to his expulsion from the ALP in 1936 and Heffron formed his own party from disgruntled Labor MPs known as the Industrial Labor Party.
 The success of his party enabled his readmission to the party and his prominence in a post-Lang NSW Branch which won office in 1941.
John Thomas "Jack" Kane (23 July 1908 – 27 October 1988) was an Australian politician.
 Born in Burraga, New South Wales, he was educated at Catholic schools in Lithgow, after which he became a coalminer.
 He was Vice-President of the Transport Workers' Union 1952-1956 and Assistant General Secretary of the New South Wales Labor Party 1952-1955.
 In 1955, he was expelled from the Labor Party together with many other members, joining with them to form the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), which became the Democratic Labor Party (DLP).
 He was the NSW DLP General Secretary 1956-1971 and the Federal Secretary 1957-71.
John Mansfield Brumby {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 21 April 1953), is a former Victorian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010.
 He became leader of the Victorian Labor Party and Premier after the resignation of Steve Bracks.
 He also served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Multicultural Affairs.
 He contested his first election as Premier at the November 2010 Victorian state election.
 His government was defeated by the Liberal/National Coalition led by Ted Baillieu.
 Brumby resigned as Labor leader after the election, on 30 November, to be replaced by Daniel Andrews.
 Within weeks of this leadership change, Brumby left parliament, with a Broadmeadows by-election taking place on 19 February 2011.
William Joseph "Bill" Denny, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (6 December 1872 – 2 May 1946) was a South Australian journalist, lawyer, politician and decorated soldier who held the South Australian House of Assembly seats of West Adelaide from 1900 to 1902 and then Adelaide from 1902 to 1905 and again from 1906 to 1933.
 After an unsuccessful candidacy as a United Labor Party (ULP) member in 1899, he was elected as an "independent liberal" in a by-election in 1900.
 He was re-elected in 1902, but defeated in 1905.
 The following year, he was elected as a ULP candidate, and retained his seat for that party (the Australian Labor Party from 1917) until 1931.
 Along with the rest of the cabinet, he was ejected from the Australian Labor Party in 1931, and was a member of the Parliamentary Labor Party until his electoral defeat at the hands of a Lang Labor Party candidate in 1933.
Thomas William "Tom" Andrews (19 October 1900 – 21 November 1974) was an Australian politician.
 Born in Kalino, Victoria, he was educated at state schools in Ballarat.
 From 1917-49 he was a teacher in state schools, as well as an official with the Teachers' Union.
 He sat on Preston City Council and was a member of the 1947 Royal Commission on Victorian Education.
 In 1949, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Darebin.
 In 1955, Andrews was expelled from the Labor Party and, together with six other MPs, formed the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), precursor to the Democratic Labor Party.
 He was defeated in an attempt to retain Darebin for the Anti-Communists in 1955.
 Andrews died in 1974.
John Michael "Jack" Mullens (18 July 1896 – 5 September 1978) was an Australian politician.
 Born in Ballarat, Victoria, he was educated there at St Patrick's College before becoming a teacher in state schools.
 Having been active in the local politics of inner western Melbourne as a member of Footscray City Council, in 1937 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Footscray.
 He remained in the Assembly until 1945.
 In 1949, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the new seat of Gellibrand, again as a Labor member.
 In 1955, together with six colleagues, he was expelled from the Labor Party and formed the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist).
 He contested Melbourne in 1955.
 Although he and all six of his colleagues were defeated in the elections of that year, the party itself became the Democratic Labor Party, which was instrumental in keeping Labor out of power in Canberra for twenty years.
 Mullens died in 1978.
Operation Safeguard is a contingency plan to deal with prison overcrowding in the United Kingdom; it involves using cells at police stations as accommodation for prisoners when the number of cells in prisons becomes critically low.
 On 9 October 2006, the Home Secretary John Reid announced the implementation of Operation Safeguard as the prison population had reached 79,843 leaving only 125 spaces.
Joseph Herbert Gander (1888 – 22 November 1954) was an Australian politician.
 Born in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia, he received a primary education before becoming a billiardmaker and public servant.
 He was involved in local politics in Sydney, being elected to Newtown Council.
 In 1931, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the member for Reid, a member of the Lang Labor party; he defeated Percy Coleman, the Labor member.
 When, in 1936, the Lang Labor members rejoined the Labor party, Gander was one of them.
 However, in 1940, the Labor Party split again, and Gander was among the members to join the Langite Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist).
 However, he was defeated in the election of that year by the federal Labor candidate, Charles Morgan, and retired from politics, returning to public service.
 Gander died in 1954.
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan PC (born 8 May 1947) is a British Labour Party politician.
 He was a Member of Parliament from 1987 to 2010, and served in the Cabinet under Prime Minister Tony Blair in a number of positions.
 He was Health Secretary from 2003-05, Defence Secretary from 2005-06, and Home Secretary from 2006-07.

Question: What year was this British Labor Party politician born, who also announced the implementation of Operation Safeguard in 2006?
Answer: 1947