Iain Coleman obituary

Labour MP fired by compassion for those left behind by society who fought for free social care provision at home

Iain Coleman, the former MP for Hammersmith and Fulham, who has died aged 67, was renowned within his west London constituency for a policy of free social care provision at home, something he had fought to introduce in the area during his leadership of the local council in the 1990s before he was elected to parliament in the Labour landslide of 1997.

Through a cruel irony, the series of strokes that curtailed his active political career meant that he himself would latterly become a major beneficiary of this very scheme.