Mike Gapes
Politician
Friends in high places Peter Oborne...posts in the Commons are often Labour or Conservative Friends of Israel. Mike Gapes, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, is a former deputy chair of the LFI. Kim Howells, chair of the intelligence and security committee (and a... In this article: Israel, Britain, William Hague, Gaza, David Cameron, London, Democracy, and Stop the War Coalition |
-
Daily Mail | November 02, 2009
QUENTIN LETTS: When it came to discussing Prof Nutt, MPs found it hard to keep a straight face. Had they all been inhaling something?
...(Lab, Ilford South) found it hard to keep a straight face. Mr Gapes did not help himself by sitting near Stephen Pound (Lab, Ealing North), resident wit of the Labour benches. Mr Pound is one of those effervescent souls around whom it is...
In this article: Alan Johnson, Stephen Pound, and Labour
-
Independent.co.uk - UK | August 31, 2009
MPs to look at effect of Megrahi release on relations with US
...attack would be kept in a Scottish prison. Mike Gapes, Labour chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, confirmed that Lockerbie would be included in the new inquiry, to begin later this year. "We have announced an inquiry into Britain's...
In this article: Jack Straw, Barack Obama, Libya, Britain, and United States
-
Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
Mike Gapes
...September 1952) is the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Ilford South . Mike Gapes was born in Wanstead Hospital in the London Borough of Redbridge, the son of a postman , and educated locally at the Staples Road Infants'...
In this article: 2005 General Election, Labour Party, House of Commons, 1983 General Election, Buckhurst Hill County High School, Fabian Society, Belfast Agreement, Middlesex Polytechnic, and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
-
scotsman.com - Politics | July 11, 2008
G8 a global powerhouse or just a talking shop? - Scotsman.com
...sign up to the G8 condemnation of Zimbabwe was highly significant. He told The Scotsman: "I think the Prime Minister was very effective in shifting Russia's public position. Previously, the Russians would never have signed up to any statement...
In this article: G8, Climate change, Robert Mugabe, United Nations, Gordon Brown, Poverty, Security Council, Africa, and Zimbabwe
-
Independent.co.uk - UK | June 14, 2009
MPs demand public inquiry on Iraq war
...are already turning on Mr Brown's plan. Mike Gapes, the Labour chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, said that he believed the inquiry "should be held in public as far as is possible". John McDonnell, the MP for Hayes and...
In this article: Gordon Brown, Iraq War, Labour, Teflon, Tony Blair, Democracy, Ed Davey, and Iraq
-
Guardian | May 20, 2009
Torture claims silenced for legal reasons
But the cross-party committee cancelled the session at the last minute, issuing a statement from Mike Gapes, the committee's Labour chairman, who said he had received advice that the cases due to be raised fell "wholly within the house sub...
In this article: Clive Stafford Smith, Reprieve, Labour, CIA, Gordon Brown, United Kingdom, Morocco, and Diego Garcia
-
Daily Express | February 07, 2009
Money to fight drug barons now spent on saving polar bears
...the United Nations. The committee s Labour chairman Mike Gapes said the Foreign Office faced serious financial pressures after the Treasury scrapped a scheme to protect departments from fluctuating currency values. He said it was...
In this article: Polar bear, Climate change, Heroin, David Miliband, UK, Culprit, Scientific method, Global warming, IPCC, and Uma Thurman
-
Guardian | May 31, 2009
Identity of men on CIA flight revealed
...flown to Guantanamo - was sub judice. Mike Gapes, the committee's Labour chairman, said he had received advice that the cases due to be raised fell "wholly within the house sub judice resolution". The resolution states that "cases in which...
In this article: Clive Stafford Smith, CIA, David Miliband, Diego Garcia, Reprieve, and Guantanamo
-
Reuters | May 18, 2009
UK expenses scandal prompts backlash against Brown
...power for 12 years, political analysts say. Mike Gapes, Labour chairman of parliament's foreign affairs committee, said all parties would be damaged by the affair, but the government the most. "There will be a very low turnout (on June 4)...
In this article: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Britain, David Cameron, Recession, UKIP, Nick Clegg, and Michael Martin
Trends
Loading...
More on Mike Gapes
Description from Wikipedia:
Michael John "Mike" Gapes (born September 4, 1952) is the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Ilford South.
Mike Gapes was born in Wanstead Hospital in the London Borough of Redbridge, the son of a postman, and educated locally at the Staples Road Infants' School in Loughton and the Manford County Primary School in Chigwell, before attending the Buckhurst Hill County High School. He continued his studies at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge where he was awarded a master's degree in economics in 1975; he also served as the secretary of the university's student's union in 1973. He completed his education at the Middlesex Polytechnic in Enfield where he earned a diploma in industrial relations in 1976.
Except for a spell as a VSO teacher in Swaziland in a gap year before attending university in 1972, and a few months working as an administrator at the Middlesex Hospital in 1976, he has worked entirely in full time politics either for the Labour Party or as an elected Member of Parliament. He contested Ilford North at the 1983 General Election but was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Vivian Bendall by some 11,201 votes. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 General Election for Ilford South when he ousted the sitting Conservative MP Neil Thorne by just 402 votes and has remained the MP there since. He made his maiden speech on May 8, 1992.
- Birth Date:
- September 04, 1952
- Birthplace:
- Snaresbrook, London
- Nationality:
- British
- University Attended:
- Middlesex University
- Political party:
- Labour Co-operative
- Represents:
- Ilford South
Explore everything named Mike Gapes...