Jack Dromey

**John Eugene Joseph Dromey** (29 September 1948 – 7 January 2022) was a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist. He was Deputy General Secretary of Unite from 2003 to 2010. He also was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Erdington from 2010 until his death.

Dromey was the Shadow Minister for Housing from 2010 until 2013, when he became the Shadow Minister for Policing. He was Shadow Minister for Labour in October 2016. He was made the Shadow Minister for Pensions in 2018 until 2021.

He also was the Treasurer of the Labour Party.

Dromey was married to MP Harriet Harman, former deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1982 until his death.

He was a critic of Labour and Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Dromey died suddenly from heart failure on 7 January 2022 at his home in Birmingham, England at the age of 73.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Jack Dromey
- **honorific-suffix**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP
- **image**:
- **office**: Home Office, Shadow Minister for Immigration
- **leader**: Keir Starmer
- **term start**: 4 December 2021
- **term end**: 7 January 2022
- **predecessor**: Bambos Charalambous
- **successor**: Stephen Kinnock
- **office1**: Shadow Paymaster General
- **leader1**: Keir Starmer
- **term start1**: 7 January 2021
- **term end1**: 4 December 2021
- **predecessor1**: _Position established_
- **successor1**: Fleur Anderson
- **office2**: Department for Work and Pensions, Shadow Minister for Pensions
- **leader2**: Jeremy Corbyn
Keir Starmer
- **term start2**: 12 January 2018
- **term end2**: 7 January 2021
- **predecessor2**: Alex Cunningham
- **successor2**: Matt Rodda
- **office3**: Department for Work and Pensions, Shadow Minister for Labour
- **leader3**: Jeremy Corbyn
- **term start3**: 10 October 2016
- **term end3**: 12 January 2018
- **predecessor3**: _Office established_
- **successor3**: Laura Pidcock
- **office4**: Shadow Cabinet (UK), Shadow Minister for Policing
- **leader4**: Ed Miliband
Harriet Harman (Acting)
Jeremy Corbyn
- **term start4**: 7 October 2013
- **term end4**: 27 June 2016
- **predecessor4**: David Hanson (politician), David Hanson
- **successor4**: Lyn Brown (politician), Lyn Brown
- **office5**: Shadow Cabinet (UK), Shadow Department of Communities and Local Government, Minister for Housing
- **leader5**: Harriet Harman (Acting)
Ed Miliband
- **term start5**: 7 October 2010
- **term end5**: 7 October 2013
- **predecessor5**: Lyn Brown (politician), Lyn Brown
- **successor5**: Andy Sawford
- **office6**: Treasurer of the Labour Party
- **leader6**: Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
- **term start6**: 30 September 2004
- **term end6**: 26 September 2010
- **predecessor6**: Jimmy Elsby
- **successor6**: Diana Holland
- **office7**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
 for Birmingham Erdington (UK Parliament constituency), Birmingham Erdington
- **term start7**: 6 May 2010
- **term end7**: 7 January 2022
- **predecessor7**: Siôn Simon
- **successor7**: Paulette Hamilton
- **birth name**: John Eugene Joseph Dromey
- **birth place**: London Borough of Brent, Brent, London, England
- **death place**: Birmingham, England
- **party**: Labour Party (UK), Labour
- **children**: 3
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2019