John Roper, Baron Roper

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John Francis Hodgess Roper, Baron Roper (born September 10, 1935 - January 29, 2016 ) was a British politician .

Career

Roper studied at Magdalen College of Oxford University and at the University of Chicago philosophy, politics and economics.

Roper began his career as a lecturer in economics at the University of Manchester . He went into politics and was elected to the British House of Commons for Farnworth constituency. From 1970 to 1981 he was a joint member of the Labor Party and the Co-operative Party and from 1981 to 1983 for the Social Democratic Party in parliament. He was also whip his party during this time . After a change in the constituency layout, he was a member of parliament for the constituency of Worsley from 1983 .

In 2000 he was named a Life Peer as Baron Roper , of Thorney Island in the City of Westminster . He was Whip the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords until 2005 . He then became a member of the Privy Council . In 2008 he was elected Deputy Chairman of Committees .

Historian Anthony Glees accused Roper of serving as an agent for the Department of State Security while at Chatham House . Lord Roper immediately denied the allegations. He said he had built bridges in East Germany in the 1980s as part of the State Department's thaw policy and said he had been misled into the background of an undercover Stasi officer he hired as director of the Chatham House was.

On May 23, 2015, Roper voluntarily retired under the provisions of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 and left the House of Lords.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liberal Democrat Lord Roper dies aged 80 ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lep.co.uk
  2. ^ Anthony Glees: The Stasi Files. Simon & Schuster, 2003.
  3. ↑ "History on the rack" , The Guardian , July 5, 2003
  4. ^ "The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf" by Hayden B. Peake, Central Intelligence Agency , April 14 2007
  5. ^ "The history men fall out over tales of spying, betrayal and buffoonery" by David Leigh, The Guardian , June 11, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Roper, John, Baron Roper
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roper, John Francis Hodgess, Baron Roper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1935
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2016