Thomas Hilton Dawson (born 30 September 1953) is a British politician who was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancaster and Wyre from 1997 until 2005.
The local Constituency Labour Party selected Anne Sacks as its new candidate, but the seat was won by the Conservative Party candidate, Ben Wallace, with a 4.5% swing away from Labour.
[2] In April 2009, he was appointed chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers.
In March 2013 he published Frank Renner's Bairns – Looking at the world through the lives of a Northumbrian Family.
[6] In March 2021, Dawson was selected as the party's candidate for the 2021 Hartlepool by-election.