(Christopher) Paul Farrelly (born 2 March 1962) British politician and journalist He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme. March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... A politician is an individual involved in politics to the extent of holding or running for public office. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Labour Party has since its formation in the early 20th century been the principal left wing political party of 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. ... Newcastle-under-Lyme is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Farrelly was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, the son of an Irish British Gas worker. He was educated at the Wolstanton Grammar School and the Marshlands Comprehensive School in Newcastle-under-Lyme, before studying at St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics and economics in 1984. Newcastle-under-Lyme is a busy market town in Staffordshire, England, not to be confused with the larger city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ... Logo as private enterprise Logo under state ownership British Gas was formerly the name of the United Kingdoms monopoly gas supplier. ... St Edmund Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

After his education he worked at managerial level in the corporate finance department with Barclays de Zoete Wedd, and, in 1990 joined Reuters as a news editor. Corporate finance is a specific area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools as well as analyses used to make these decisions. ... Barclays Bank headquarters One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf Barclays plc (LSE: BARC, NYSE: BCS, TYO: 8642 ) is the fourth largest bank in the United Kingdom. ... Reuters Group plc LSE: RTR NASDAQ: RTRSY is best known as a news service that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. ... News is new information or current events. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ...

Farrelly was appointed as the business editor with the Independent on Sunday in 1995 before joining The Observer in 1997 as the City Editor, where he remained until his election to Westminster. Wall Street, Manhattan In economics, business refers to the social science of managing people to organize and maintain collective productivity toward accomplishing particular creative and productive goals. ... For other uses, see The Independent (disambiguation). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... 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. ...

Farrelly unsuccessfully contested Chesham and Amersham at the 1997 General Election finishing in third place some 16,058 votes behind the sitting Conservative MP Cheryl Gillan. Chesham and Amersham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom and the most successful party in political history based on election victories. ... Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan (born April 21, 1952, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, Mrs John Leeming) is a United Kingdom politician and has been Conservative Member of Parliament for Chesham and Amersham since 1992. ...

He was selected to contest his hometown seat of Newcastle-under-Lyme following the retirement of the Labour MP Llin Golding at the 2001 General Election, and he held the seat comfortably with a majority of 9,986 and remains the MP there. He made his maiden speech on 12 July 2001 (see [[1]]). Llinos Golding, Baroness Golding (born 21 March 1933) is a Labour member of the House of Lords. ... The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... 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. ... July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

In the House of Commons Farrelly has served on several select committees including the Science and Technology committee, he has been a member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee since the 2005 General Election. The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and is now the dominant branch of Parliament. ... A Select Committee is a committee made up of a small number of parliamentary members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues originating in the Westminster System of parliamentary democracy. ... DCMS Logo DCMS headquarters in Cockspur Street The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (sometimes abbreviated DCMS) is a department of the British government. ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ...

Before his election he had held elected office within the Hornsey and Wood Green Constituency Labour Party as well as in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Hornsey and Wood Green is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... A Constituency Labour Party (CLP) is an organisation of members of the British Labour Party who live in a particular parliamentary constituency in England, Scotland and Wales. ...

Farrelly has been married to Victoria Jane Perry since 1998, and they have a son and a daughter. He is a member of several organisations including Amnesty International, Liberty and Greenpeace, and is a keen follower of rugby union. He speaks French, German and Italian. Amnesty International logo Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international, non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ... Liberty is a pressure group based in the United Kingdom. ... Greenpeace is an international environmental organization founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1971. ... Rugby union (often referred to as just rugby, or union) is a variant of rugby football. ...

External links

• [2] The Labour Party - Paul Farrelly MP official biography
• [3] Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Paul Farrelly MP
• [4] TheyWorkForYou.com - Paul Farrelly MP