Dale Butler has served as an MP in Warwick since 1998, winning for the PLP at three general elections. He was promoted to Cabinet as Minister of Community Affairs and Sports under Alex Scott in 2003, before becoming the first Minister of Culture and Social Rehabilitation under Ewart Brown in 2006. He has overseen the purchasing of White Hill Field and the development of Government's day care initiative and Mirrors programme.

Mr. Butler quit Cabinet in disgust at Dr. Brown's handling of the Uighurs affair in the summer of 2009.

Outside politics, he was the youngest ever principal at St. George's Secondary School at 28, and is a historian and author and regarded in some corners as 'the fishcake king'.

He was known for his involvement in community, youth and race programmes long before he became an MP, including the JOBB initiative to promote a healthy racial climate in the 1970s.