See also Michael John Foster, MP for Worcester Michael John Foster (born March 14, 1963, Birmingham) is an English politician. ... Worcester is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Michael Jabez Foster (born February 26, 1946) British politician He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics to the extent of holding or running for public office. ... The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Hastings and Rye is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Michael Foster was born in Hastings, East Sussex and attended the local Hastings Secondary School for Boys and the Hastings Grammar School before attending the University of Leicester where he received a Master of Laws degree. From 1963 to 1972 he worked as a litigation clerk. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1980 and worked as a partner of Fynmores Solicitors in Bexhill-on-Sea specialising in employment law until 1998. Hastings is a town and local government district in South East England, in the county of East Sussex. ... East Sussex is a county in South East England. ... // Headline text The William Parker Sports College, formerly known as Hastings rubish School, is a secondary school in Hastings, East Sussex in the United Kingdom. ... University of Leicester seen from Victoria Park - Left to right: the Department of Engineering, the Attenborough tower, the Charles Wilson building. ... The Master of Laws is an advanced law degree that allows someone to specialize in a particular area of law. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Tuesday. ... A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in which the party commencing the action, the plaintiff, seeks a legal remedy. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Bexhill-on-Sea is a town and seaside resort in the county of East Sussex, in the south of England. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

He was elected as a councillor to the Hastings Borough Council in 1970, becoming the Labour group leader for a year in 1973, serving on the council until 1977, he was again elected to the Borough Council 1981-1985. He received a dual mandate in 1974 when he was also elected as a councillor to the East Sussex County Council, becoming the deputy Labour group leader 1984-1992, he stood down from the county council in 1997. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He unsuccessfully contested Hastings at both the February and October 1974 general elections and again at the 1979 General Election, and on each occasion was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Kenneth Warren. He won the redrawn seat of Hastings and Rye at the 1997 General Election when he became the second least expected Labour MP in the landslide. He defeated the new sitting Conservative MP Jacqui Lait by 2,560 votes and has remained the MP since. He made his maiden speech on November 21, 1997.[1] The UK general election of February 1974 was held on February 28, 1974. ... The UK general election of October 1974 took place on October 10, 1974. ... The UK general election, 1979 was held on May 3, 1979 and is regarded as a pivotal point in 20th century British politics. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... Jacqueline Anne Harkness Lait known as Jacqui Lait (born December 16, 1947, Paisley, Mrs Peter Jones) is a British politician and Conservative Member of Parliament for Beckenham. ... A maiden speech is the first speech given by a newly elected representative in such bodies as the House of Commons or the United States House of Representatives. ... November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In parliament he was a member of the social security select committee in 1998 until he became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney General Gareth Williams in 1999 and his successor Peter Goldsmith until the 2005 General Election. Since 2005 he has been a member of the work and pensions and standards and privileges select committees. The Palace of Westminster, known also as the Houses of Parliament, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their sittings. ... The Department of Social Security (DSS) was until 2001 a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. ... A Select Committee of the British Parliament is a committee made up of a small number of members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a junior role given to British Government MPs to act as the Parliamentary contact of senior Ministers. ... Her Majestys Attorney General for England and Wales, usually known as the Attorney General, is the chief legal adviser of the Crown in England and Wales. ... For the American actor of the same name, please see Gareth Williams. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Lord Goldsmith Attorney General Peter Henry Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, PC (born 5 January 1950), is the current Attorney General of England and Wales. ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Department for Work and Pensions is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom, created on June 8, 2001 from the merger of the Employment part of the Department for Education and Employment and the Department of Social Security. ...

Michael Foster has been married to Rosemary Kemp since 1969 and the have two sons and four grandchildren. He is interested in tennis and is secretary of the All Party Tennis Group in parliament. He is a member of the Christian Socialists and the Society of Labour Lawyers. Other interests include pensioners rights, child poverty and animal welfare. He has been a Deputy Lieutenant for East Sussex since 1993. 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Tennis ball This article is about the sport, tennis. ... Christian socialism generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist and who see these two things as being interconnected, perhaps because one derives from the other. ... The Deputy Lieutenant is the deputy to the Lord Lieutenant of a county. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

External links

• Michael Foster official site
• Guardian Unlimited Politics Ask Aristotle - Michael Jabez Foster MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Michael Jabez Foster MP