Alan Keen
The Times
Alan Keen prepared for life as an MP with a diverse career which included spells as a scout for a football club, a desk job in the Army and a period in the fire protection industry. He entered
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Alan Keen prepared for life as an MP with a diverse career which included spells as a scout for a football club, a desk job in the Army and a period in the fire protection industry. He entered Parliament as Labour MP for Feltham &amp; Heston in 1992 and served on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee as well as chairing the All-Party Parliamentary Football Group.

David Alan Keen was born in Lewisham, southeast London, in 1937 but was taken by his mother to her family home in Cleveland at three weeks. He grew up in Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, in the shadow of one of Teesside’s steel works. He was proud of the accent he acquired — and never lost — in the North