Mike Gapes

...(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...

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...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...

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...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'...

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...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...

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...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...

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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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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)...

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