Geoffrey Robinson
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Geoffrey Robinson MP |
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| Paymaster General | |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 23 December 1998 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Michael Bates |
| Succeeded by | Dawn Primarolo |
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Member of Parliament for Coventry North West |
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Assumed office 4 March 1976 |
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| Preceded by | Maurice Edelman |
| Majority | 4,509 (10.0%) |
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| Born |
25 May 1938 Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater |
Clare College, Cambridge Yale University |
Geoffrey Robinson (born 25 May 1938) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North West since 1976. He was Paymaster General from May 1997 to December 1998, resigning after it was revealed that he had lent his government colleague Peter Mandelson £373,000 to buy a house. From 1996 to 2008 he was the owner of the New Statesman, a centre-left weekly political magazine.
Robinson was born in Sheffield, England and educated at Emanuel School, Clare College, Cambridge, and Yale University. On completing his formal education he became a Labour Party researcher before joining the newly created entity the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation, at a time when the British government was promoting a merger between the Leyland Motor Corporation and BMC. The merger duly took place amid high hopes that a solution to the BMC problem was in sight.
A change of government led to a swift demise for "The Industrial Reorganisation Corporation", and in 1970 Robinson joined British Leyland, the company in the creation of which he had been instrumental. His initial job title was "Staff executive, facilities planning", but after four months he was promoted to the position of Financial Controller. It was an unusual appointment in a conservative industry, both on account of his relative youth and because he had no accountancy qualification. (His formal tertiary education had concentrated on Russian, German and, possibly of more direct relevance, economics.)
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