George Jeger

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George Jeger (19 March 1903 – 6 January 1971) was a British Labour Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament for Winchester from 1945 to 1950, normally a safe Conservative seat. In 1950 he was elected as the MP for Goole, which he held until his death in 1971.

He previously worked as a bank official and a freelance journalist,{{cite news |title=Labour Hopes at Walsall |work=The Manchester Guardian |date=8 November 1938}}{{cite news |title=A Mixed Political History |work=The Manchester Guardian |date=12 August 1938}} and served as a member of Shoreditch Borough Council from 1926 to 1940, and as Mayor of Shoreditch from 1937 to 1938.{{cite web |title=Jeger, George |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-156112 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=4 June 2018 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U156112 |date=1 December 2007|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}

He was the brother of Santo Jeger, brother-in-law of Lena Jeger, and father of Jenny Jeger.{{cite news |last1=Mandelson |first1=Peter |authorlink1=Peter Mandelson |title=Obituary: Jenny Jeger: A rock of Labour |work=The Guardian |date=5 September 1997}}{{cite news |title=Jenny Jeger |work=The Times |date=10 September 1997}} His nephew Peter Prinsley is also a Labour MP.{{cite web | url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-07-19/debates/6A1FA3E9-41B0-434A-B13C-B6680AA87023/PlanningTheGreenBeltAndRuralAffairs#contribution-41A76F15-B414-447C-AADA-FDA7FBDCA36D | title=Planning, the Green Belt and Rural Affairs - Hansard - UK Parliament }}