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Denis MacShane

Denis MacShane
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Minister of State for Europe
In office
3 April 2002 – 5 May 2005
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Peter Hain
Succeeded by Douglas Alexander
Minister of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs
In office
11 June 2001 – 3 April 2002
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Brian Wilson
Succeeded by Bill Rammell
Member of Parliament
for Rotherham
In office
5 May 1994 – 5 November 2012
Preceded by James Boyce
Succeeded by Sarah Champion
Majority 10,462 (27.9%)
Personal details
Born Josef Denis Matyjaszek
(1948-05-21) 21 May 1948 (age 68)
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Political party Labour (suspended)
Spouse(s) Liliana Kłaptoć (1983–1986)
Nathalie Pham (1987–2003)
Domestic partner Carol Barnes (1975–1981)
Joan Smith (2003–2010)
Children 4 daughters
1 son
Residence Clapham and Rotherham
Alma mater Merton College, Oxford
Birkbeck, University of London
Website Official website

Denis MacShane (born Denis Matyjaszek; 21 May 1948) is a British former Labour Partypolitician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham from 1994 to his resignation in 2012 and served in the Labour Government as Minister of State for Europe from 2002 until 2005.

In November 2012, he was suspended from the Labour Party after the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee found that he had submitted 19 false invoices "plainly intended to deceive" the parliamentary expenses authority. The same day he announced his intention to resign as MP for Rotherham. Subsequently, in October 2013, he was removed from the Privy Council.

In November 2013 he pleaded guilty to false accounting at the Old Bailey, by submitting false receipts for £12,900. On 23 December, Mr Justice Sweeney sentenced MacShane to six months in prison. He served six weeks of his sentence before being released.

MacShane was born in Glasgow as Denis Matyjaszek to an Irish mother, Isobel MacShane, and Jozef Matyjaszek, a Pole who had fought in the Second World War and remained in exile, taking British nationality in 1950.

MacShane was educated at the independent St Benedict's School in Ealing, before going on to study at Merton College, Oxford.


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