Denis Tunnicliffe, Baron Tunnicliffe

The Right Honourable The Lord Tunnicliffe CBE
Official portrait, 2019
Opposition Deputy Chief Whip in House of Lords
In office 8 October 2010 – July 2024
Leader	Ed Miliband Harriet Harman Jeremy Corbyn Keir Starmer
Succeeded by	TBC
Lord-in-Waiting Government Whip
In office 6 October 2008 – 6 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	The Lord Bassam of Brighton
Succeeded by	The Earl Attlee
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 June 2004 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	(1943-01-17) 17 January 1943 (age 81)
Nationality	English
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Susan Dale
Children	2
Alma mater	University College London Hamble College of Air Training
Profession	Pilot and railwayman

Denis Tunnicliffe, Baron Tunnicliffe, CBE (born 17 January 1943), is a British pilot and railwayman. He is a 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.