Gavin Strang
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Gavin Steel Strang (born July 10, 1943) is a Scottish politician, and Labour Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East since 1970. Between 1997 and 2005 this constituency didn't exist, and was mostly replaced by Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Strang held this seat during this time.
Strang was a minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, serving as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy in 1974 and then at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food until 1979. He was Minister for Transport from 1997, with a seat in the Cabinet, but was sacked in 1998.
Since becoming a backbencher, he has been active against the government, campaigning against the privatisation of NATS. On 31 October 2006, Strang was one of 12 Labour MPs to back Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party's call for an inquiry into the Iraq War.[1]
He is Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for World Government. [1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Labour MPs who rebelled on Iraq. BBC News (31 October, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-10-31.
[edit] External links
- Gavin Strang MP official site
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Gavin Strang MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Gavin Strang MP
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