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Stephen Twigg (born 25 December 1966) is a British politician and former Labour Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate.He is of "dual heritage", one parent being Bengali. December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 6 days remaining in the year. ...
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The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in England, Scotland and Wales. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
Enfield Southgate is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Early life Twigg was educated at Southgate comprehensive, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied PPE. College name Balliol College Named after John de Balliol Established 1263 Sister College St Johns Master Andrew Graham JCR President Jack Hawkins Undergraduates 403 MCR President Chelsea Payne Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in...
Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is a popular interdisciplinary degree which combines study from the three eponymous disciplines. ...
He became the youngest and first openly gay president of the National Union of Students in 1990 representing the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS). In 1991 he was reelected, despite failing to register his nomination for the position before the deadline; this forced NOLS delegates to vote to re-open nominations at the NUS Conference. The subsequent election was only able to take nominations from the floor of conference, but despite having a large number of opponents, many of whom stood to register their unhappiness at this process, Twigg won the ballot. Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ...
The National Union of Students (NUS) is the main federation of students unions that exist inside the United Kingdom. ...
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On leaving the NUS he became a councillor in the London Borough of Islington, and was also Chief Whip,and briefly Deputy Leader. He worked for the UK section of Amnesty International and then for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. A councillor is a member of a council (such as a city council), particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other parts of the Commonwealth. ...
Arms of Islington London Borough Council Islington Town Hall Islington is a borough of London to the north of the City of London, west of Hackney, east of Camden, and south of Haringey. ...
In politics, a whip is a member of a political party in a legislature whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ...
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a pressure group that promotes human rights. ...
The National Council for Voluntary Organisatons (NCVO) is the umbrella body for the voluntary sector in England. ...
1997 Election In the 1997 election he was elected to Parliament for Enfield Southgate, the constituency in which he had been born and raised, with a majority of 1,433. There had been a massive 17.4% swing to him from his Conservative opponent, Michael Portillo. For many Labour supporters, this was the most iconic moment of the election; in the Royal Festival Hall in London (the scene of the party celebrations that evening), this evoked a massive cheer. Portillo was not only a cabinet minister, he was widely tipped as a future leader of the Conservative Party. Twigg was forced to give up his role as general secretary of the Fabian Society following an unexpected victory in what was regarded to be a safe Conservative seat. BBC coverage of the result can be found here. The UK general election, 1997 was arguably the largest and one of the most significant election Victory of the twentieth century (Labour won 418 seats- More than the liberals in 1906). ...
A majority is a subset of a group that is more than half of the entire group. ...
The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and is the second oldest extant political party in the world. ...
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo PC (born 26 May 1953) is an English journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative politician. ...
The Royal Festival Hall is a concert, dance and talks venue within the South Bank Centre in London, England. ...
Alternate meanings in cabinet (disambiguation) A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ...
The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ...
2001 Election In the 2001 election Twigg held the seat with an increased majority of 5,546, second place going to Conservative John Flack. Following the 2001 election, Twigg was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the House of Commons, Robin Cook, and in 2002 became a junior minister in the Department for Education and Skills. In 2004, in the government changes following the resignation of David Blunkett, he was promoted to Minister of State for school standards. Tony Blair William Hague Charles Kennedy The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ...
Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In the parliamentary systems of several Commonwealth countries, such as Canada and Australia, it is customary for the prime minister to appoint parliamentary secretaries (in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, parliamentary assistants) from their caucus to assist cabinet ministers with their work. ...
The Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Commons. ...
Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 – 6 August 2005) was a politician in the British Labour Party. ...
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The Department for Education and Skills is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001. ...
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David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. ...
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2005 Election In the 2005 election, Twigg lost his seat to the Conservative Party candidate, David Burrowes, by a margin of 1,747 votes (a swing of 8.7%). This was a surprise loss for the Labour Party, much in same way as the seat was won from the Conservatives in 1997.[1] During his concession speech, Twigg claimed that he would not be the last Labour MP for Enfield Southgate. The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005. ...
David Burrowes David John Barrington Burrowes (born 1969) is a British politician. ...
Further Details Twigg was the first gay man to be out at the time of their election to the House of Commons when he was elected at the 1997 General Election: it was a close contest for this record, as just 21 minutes later Ben Bradshaw, also openly gay, was elected for Exeter. Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born August 30, 1960) British politician and is the Labour Member of Parliament for Exeter and the Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare with the rank of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. ...
Exeter is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Whilst an MP he served as Chair of two All Party Parliamentary Groups - on Epilepsy and on Youth issues.
On 12th December 2005, Twigg was arrested in central London for being drunk and incapable in a public place and taken to Marylebone police station. He was fined £50. Twigg commented "I had had a lot to drink and I think it [the police action] was sensible. I have no complaints whatsoever. I take full responsibility for my actions" [2] Drunkenness, in its most common usage, is the state of being intoxicated with alcohol (i. ...
Marylebone (sometimes written St. ...
Twigg is currently (2007) Chair of Progress, an independent organisation for Labour party members, and Director of the Foreign Policy Centre, a think tank with offices in London and Beijing which develops long-term multilateral approaches to global problems. Twigg is Campaigns Director of the Aegis Trust, in their educational and campaigning work against genocide. He is also a governor of Jubilee Primary School in Brixton, South London; a trustee of the Workers Educational Association and Chair of the Young People Now Foundation. He is an Executive member of the Fabian Society. Progress can refer to: The idea of a process in which societies or individuals become better or more modern (technologically and/or socially). ...
The Foreign Policy Centre is a British think tank specialising in foreign policy. ...
This article is about the institution. ...
Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng; IPA: ; ), a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
Aegis Trust is a United Kingdom-based anti-genocide campaign founded in 2000 by Drs James and Stephen Smith. ...
Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people as defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or...
Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ...
Brixton is an area of South London, England, part of the London Borough of Lambeth. ...
The Workers Educational Association (WEA) is a British voluntary organisation, active in the field of adult education. ...
The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means. ...
He is a former Chairman of Labour Friends of Israel. Labour Friends of Israel is a UK Parliament based campaign group promoting support within the British Labour Party for a strong bilateral relationship between Britain and Israel. ...
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References - ^ BBC News 6.5.2005
- ^ BBC News 14.12.2005
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