Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport
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The Right Honourable The Lord Howarth of Newport CBE PC |
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Member of Parliament for Newport East |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Roy Hughes |
| Succeeded by | Jessica Morden |
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Member of Parliament for Stratford-on-Avon |
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In office 9 June 1983 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Created |
| Succeeded by | John Maples |
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11 June 1944 Marylebone, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour (1995 - present) |
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Conservative (until 1995) |
| Spouse(s) | Gillian Chance (divorced) |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
Alan Thomas Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, CBE, PC, (born 11 June 1944) is a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 until 2005.
He is the son of Major Thomas Howarth MC (Chief Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham, Second Master of Winchester College and High Master of St. Paul's School) and Margaret Teakle (who was a WREN in the Second World War). He was educated at Rugby School and gained a BA in History from King's College, Cambridge in 1965.
Having been awarded a CBE in the 1982 New Year's Honours for political service, Howarth was Conservative Party MP for Stratford-on-Avon, first elected in 1983. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science from 1989 to 1992.
In 1995 he defected from the Conservative Party to the Labour Party, the first MP to defect directly from the Conservatives to Labour, and the first former Conservative MP to sit as a Labour MP since Sir Oswald Mosley. He wanted a new seat to contest as a Labour candidate and, after failing to win the seats of Wentworth and Wythenshawe and Sale East, he was selected for the safe Labour seat of Newport East in Wales. The miners' leader Arthur Scargill stood against him under the Socialist Labour Party banner, but he easily held the seat for Labour.
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