Denis MacShane
| Denis MacShane | |
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| Minister of State for Europe | |
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In office 3 April 2002 – 5 May 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Peter Hain |
| Succeeded by | Douglas Alexander |
| Minister of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs | |
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In office 11 June 2001 – 3 April 2002 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Brian Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Bill Rammell |
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Member of Parliament for Rotherham |
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In office 5 May 1994 – 5 November 2012 |
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| Preceded by | James Boyce |
| Succeeded by | Sarah Champion |
| Majority | 10,462 (27.9%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Josef Denis Matyjaszek 21 May 1948 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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