What is Vernon Coaker?
{{redlinks|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox Officeholder |name = Vernon Coaker |honorific-suffix = [[Member of Parliament|MP]] |image = Official portrait of Vernon Coaker crop 3.jpg |office = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland]] |leader = [[Jeremy Corbyn]] |term_start = 13 September 2015 |term_end = 26 June 2016 |predecessor = [[Ivan Lewis]] |successor = [[David Anderson (British politician)|Dave Anderson]] |leader1 = [[Ed Miliband]] |term_start1 = 7 October 2011 |term_end1 = 7 October 2013 |predecessor1 = [[Shaun Woodward]] |successor1 = [[Ivan Lewis]] |office2 = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Defence]] |leader2 = [[Ed Miliband]]<br>[[Harriet Harman]] {{small|(Acting)}} |term_start2 = 7 October 2013 |term_end2 = 13 September 2015 |predecessor2 = [[Jim Murphy]] |successor2 = [[Maria Eagle]] |office3 = [[Department for Children, Schools and Families|Minister of State for Schools]] |primeminister3 = [[Gordon Brown]] |term_start3 = 8 June 2009 |term_end3 = 11 May 2010 |predecessor3 = [[Jim Knight]] |successor3 = [[Nick Gibb]] |office4 = [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]]<br>for [[Gedling (UK Parliament constituency)|Gedling]] |term_start4 = 1 May 1997 |term_end4 = |predecessor4 = [[Andrew Mitchell]] |successor4 = |majority4 = 2,986 (6.2%) |birth_name=Vernon Rodney Coaker |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|6|17|df=y}} |birth_place = [[City of Westminster|London]], [[United Kingdom]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] |spouse = Jacqueline Heaton |children = Daughter and son |alma_mater = [[University of Warwick]]<br>[[Nottingham Trent University]] |website = {{url|vernon-coaker-mp.co.uk|Official website}} }} '''Vernon Rodney Coaker''' (born 17 June 1953) is a [[British people|Brit