Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale

Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale (* 22. December 1933 in Fremantle , Western Australia , Australia ; † 19th February 2012 ) was a British journalist and politician of the Labor Party , both member of the House of Commons and the House of Lords was.

Life

After attending the Holly Lodge Grammar School in Smethwick , he did his military service in the Royal Air Force in 1951 and then began working as a journalist. First, he was a member of the Birmingham Evening Mail and then the Daily Mirror before he in 1968 deputy editor of the weekly Farmer's Weekly was.

In the general election in October 1974 he was elected for the first time as a candidate of the Labor Party to a member of the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Hemel Hempstead until he was defeated in the general election of May 3, 1979 . During this time he was the opposition spokesman for domestic affairs.

In the elections of June 9, 1983 , he was again elected as a member of the House of Commons and belonged to this as a representative of the constituency of Birmingham Erdington until he renounced to run again in the general election on June 7, 2001 . Corbett was initially Whip of the Labor Group between 1984 and 1987 , then again until 1992 domestic policy spokesman and from 1992 to 1995 spokesman for the opposition for national heritage, radio and press. Most recently, he served as chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee between 1999 and 2001 .

After leaving the House of Commons, he was promoted to the nobility in 2001 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, of Erdington in the County of West Midlands and from then on belonged to the House of Lords until his death. Most recently he was chairman of the Labor Peers group in the House of Lords from 2005 to 2007.

At times he was also Chairman of the over part union "Parliamentary Committee for Freedom of Iran " ( British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom ), the "Friends of Cyprus" ( Friends of Cyprus ) and the non-partisan "group on the reform of the criminal law" ( All Party Penal Reform Group ).

Publications

• On the Campaign Trail , 1987

Web links

• Labor peer Lord Corbett dies, age 78 . In: The Daily Telegraph, February 19, 2012
• Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale on thepeerage.com , accessed August 17, 2015.
• Robin Corbett at Hansard (English)