Neil Turner (born 16 September 1945) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan.
[2] He was a quantity surveyor for Fairclough Builders, which became AMEC, from 1967–94, then was Operations Director for North Shropshire District Council from 1995–7.
He represented the North West Region on the National Committee of the Labour Party Young Socialists in 1970, following Roger Stott.
When a dyslexic constituent, Stephen Halsall (a psychiatric nurse), sent him a letter in March 2001 complaining about a drug rehabilitation unit being built near to him, Turner returned the letter to the constituent with all the spelling and grammatical errors underlined and annotated in red ink, e.g., we only have 1 Labour Party – should be Party's.
[4] Turner married Susan Price on 26 March 1971 in Wigan and has one son.