Gary Lefley (born 1954) was the

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for the

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nucl ...

(CND) from 1990 to 1994. Born in Tottenham, he was educated at

Tottenham Grammar School Tottenham Grammar School (TGS) was a grammar school in North London, with local football connections. Its history goes back beyond the 1631 Sarah, fourth duchess of Somerset Seymour, bequest by the Duchess of Somerset. It closed in 1988, but ...

and the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of ...

where he joined the CPGB and met his first wife Anne. Years later, they moved to Yorkshire where he became the Secretary of the CPGB in Barnsley. Lefley belonged to the Straight Left faction within the Communist Party of Great Britain. Lefley remained general secretary of CND until 1994, when the post was abolished and the

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was declining; towards the end of the Cold War. He remains a politician and Union activist and is currently the headteacher of a Pupil referral Unit in London.

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