Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (17 February 1944 – 8 April 2000), known simply as Bernie Grant, was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Tottenham from 1987 to his death in 2000. He became a trade union official, and moved into politics, becoming a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Haringey in 1978. When the Conservative government introduced "rate capping", Grant led the fight against it in the borough[citation needed]. This split the local Labour Party, but through this split Grant became the Borough of Haringey leader in 1985.