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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = The Lord Tunnicliffe
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}}
| image = Official portrait of Lord Tunnicliffe crop 2.jpg
| caption = Official portrait, 2019
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| office = [[Opposition Deputy Chief Whip in House of Lords]]
| leader = [[Ed Miliband]]<br>[[Harriet Harman]]<br>[[Jeremy Corbyn]]<br>[[Keir Starmer]]
| term_start = 8 October 2010
| term_end = July 2024
| successor = TBC
| office2 = [[Lord-in-Waiting]] <br> [[Government Whip]] 
| primeminister2 = [[Gordon Brown]]
| term_start2 = 6 October 2008
| term_end2 = 6 May 2010
| predecessor2 = [[Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton|The Lord Bassam of Brighton]]
| successor2 = [[John Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee|The Earl Attlee]]
| office4 = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br/>[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]
| term_start4 = 21 June 2004<br/>[[Life peer|Life Peerage]]
| term_end4 = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|01|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place = 
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| nationality = [[England|English]]
| spouse = Susan Dale
| party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| relations = 
| children = 2
| residence = 
| alma_mater = [[University College London]] <br> [[Hamble College of Air Training]]
| occupation = 
| profession = Pilot and railwayman
| religion = 
}}
'''Denis Tunnicliffe, Baron Tunnicliffe''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (born 17 January 1943), is a British pilot and railwayman. He is a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Life Peer]], who has had several roles in the [[House of Lords]] ranging from a [[Government Whip]] to a Defence Spokesman. He recently spent years as the Opposition Deputy Chief Whip;
when Labour returned to power after the [[2024 United Kingdom general election]] the incoming [[Starmer ministry]] allotted the deputy chief whip's position ([[Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard]]) to [[Margaret Wheeler, Baroness Wheeler]].

== Early life and career ==
The son of Arthur and Ellen Tunnicliffe, he was educated at [[Henry Cavendish School]] in [[Derby]] and [[University College, London]], where he graduated with a [[Bachelor of Science]] in mathematics in 1965. He was further educated at the [[College of Air Training]] in [[Hamble-le-Rice|Hamble]] and worked then for [[British Overseas Airways Corporation]] (BOAC) and later [[British Airways]] from 1966 to 1986. Until 1972, he was co-pilot.

Since 1968, he has been married to Susan Dale. They had two sons, one now deceased.

From 1986 to 1988, Tunnicliffe was chief executive of the Aviation Division of [[International Leisure Group]]. For [[London Underground]], he was managing director between 1988 and 1998 and chairman between 1998 and 2000. Tunnicliffe was chief executive of [[London Regional Transport]] from 1998 to 2000 and chairman of the [[United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority]] from 2002 to 2004. Since 2003 he is chairman of the [[Rail Safety and Standards Board]]. For the [[British Airline Pilots' Association]], he was a member between 1966 and 1972, and local council member from 1969 to 1972.

Tunnicliffe is Trustee of [[Homerton College, Cambridge]] and council member of [[Royal Holloway, University of London]].

In the [[1993 Birthday Honours]] he was appointed a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=53332 |date=12 June 1993 |page=9 |supp=y}}</ref>

== In Parliament ==
He was created a [[life peer]] as '''Baron Tunnicliffe''', ''of [[Bracknell]] in the [[County of Berkshire]]'' on 2 June 2004.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=57309 |date=7 June 2004 |page=7059}}</ref>

Since his introduction to the [[House of Lords]] he has served in many positions namely as a [[Lord in Waiting]] for the last two years of the Labour Government.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-tunnicliffe/3671 |title = Contact information for Lord Tunnicliffe - MPS and Lords - UK Parliament}}</ref>

Following the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 General Election]] he was appointed as Opposition Deputy Chief Whip under [[Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton|Lord Bassam of Brighton]] while briefly serving as the Opposition Spokesman for Defence. He continued to serve as Deputy Chief Whip as well as a general spokesman  for a range of issues, as is the custom for Whips in the House of Lords.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.labourlords.org.uk/denis-tunnicliffe |title = Denis Tunnicliffe}}</ref>

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|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|centre|150px]][[File:Tunnicliffe Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]]
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|notes = 
|year_adopted = 2006
|coronet = [[Coronet|Coronet of a Baron]]
|escutcheon = Or an Orle enclosing a Saltire and a Cross all conjoined Sable and each conjoinment surmounting an Annulet Gules
|crest = A Cat sejant Sable winged Or
|supporters = On either side a Mole statant erect Sable in the mouth a Black-eyed Susan Or eyed Sable slipped and leaved Gules
|badge = An Isosceles Triangle Or fimbriated Sable the base bendwise issuing from the apex an Isosceles Triangle Or fimbriated Sable the base bendwise sinister
|motto = '''LOVE SUPPORT DIRECT'''
|symbolism = The Arms allude to the London Underground, Lord Tunnicliffe being Managing Director of the same for ten years. The mole Supporters are a further allusion to London underground and the flower is a pun on his wife's name of Susan. The Badge is derived from BOAC's speedbird device.
}}

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*{{cite web| url= http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=32279| title= DodOnline| accessdate= 2007-03-02| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061003050827/http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=32279| archive-date= 3 October 2006| url-status= dead}}

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