Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport
Alan Thomas Howarth , Baron Howarth of Newport , CBE , PC , (born June 11, 1944 ) is a British Labor Party politician .
Youth and education
He is the son of Major Thomas Howarth MC, Principal of King Edward's School in Birmingham, Assistant Principal of Winchester College and Principal of St Paul's School (London) . His mother Margaret Teakle was WREN during World War II . He graduated from King's College (Cambridge) with a BA in history in 1965 .
Political career
Howarth was from 1983 a Conservative Party MP in the House of Commons for the constituency of Stratford-on-Avon . From 1989 to 1992 he was Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Department for Education and Skills.
Party transfer
In 1995 he joined the Labor Party from the Conservative Party ; he was the first MP to convert directly from the Conservatives to Labor. and the first former Conservative to serve in the House of Commons since Sir Oswald Mosley . He claimed a seat as a Labor candidate and after running unsuccessfully for the constituencies of Wentworth and Wythenshawe and Sale East , he was given the secure Labor seat of the constituency of Newport East in Wales . His rival candidate was the miners' union leader Arthur Scargill , who ran for the Socialist Labor Party .
After the 1997 election victory, he became Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Education and Labor and the following year became Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Media and Sport . He is also a member of the Privy Council . After the 2001 general election , he lost his post. He did not run for the 2005 parliamentary election . Jessica Morden became his successor.
On May 13, 2005, his appointment as a Life Peer was announced and on June 16, 2005 he was appropriately ennobled as Baron Howarth of Newport , of Newport in the County of Gwent . He has been a member of the House of Lords since then .
controversy
He was criticized when it became known that he and his partner Baroness Hollis live in the immediate vicinity but have both settled expenses to the House of Lords. He and Baroness Hollis are one of the few couples who both have life peerage in their own right.
Personal
In 1965 he married Gillian Chance. They have two sons and two daughters and were divorced in 1996.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Mail on Sunday , December 21, 2008
Web links
- They Work For You
- Alan Thomas Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, on thepeerage.com , accessed August 17, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Howarth, Alan, Baron Howarth of Newport |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Howarth, Alan Thomas, Baron Howarth of Newport |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1944 |