Robert V. Jackson
| Robert V. Jackson | |
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| Member of Parliament for Wantage |
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In office 10 June 1983 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Established |
| Succeeded by | Ed Vaizey |
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| Born | 24 September 1946 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Caroline Jackson |
| Alma mater | St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
Robert Victor Jackson (born 24 September 1946) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 to 1984 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Wantage from 1983 to 2005, having been elected as a Conservative; however, he joined the Labour Party in 2005.
He was raised in Nkana, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) where his father worked on the copper mines and was educated at Falcon College in Rhodesia and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he rose to the presidency of the Oxford Union. He was a contemporary of figures including Christopher Hitchens, John Redwood, William Waldegrave, Edwina Currie, Stephen Milligan, John Scarlett, William Blair, Bill Clinton and Gyles Brandreth. He was then elected to a fellowship of All Souls College, Oxford, one of the UK's most prestigious academic distinctions. Jackson is married to Caroline Jackson, a former Member of the European Parliament. He had worked as a political advisor to senior ministers prior to being elected and also as political advisor to the Governor of Rhodesia, Lord Soames, during its transition to independence as Zimbabwe. He edited the Round Table Journal from 1970 to 1974.
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