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Gerald Bernard Kaufman (born June 21 , 1930 ) is a British Labour Member of Parliament who was a government minister during the 1970s . He is known as a moderate, and a supporter of Tony Blair 's reforms. He infamously called the Labour Party's left-wing 1983 election manifesto [1] "the longest suicide note in history". Born in Leeds and educated at Leeds Grammar School and the University of Oxford ( Queen's College ), he became a Fabian Society staffer and a political journalist on the Daily Mirror and the New Statesman . He was a member of Prime Minister Harold Wilson 's informal "kitchen cabinet". In 1965 he became a Labour Party press officer. He was elected MP for Ardwick in Manchester in 1970 and has represented Manchester Gorton since 1983. He was a minister throughout Labour's time in power in the 1970s, first in the Department of the Environment, then in the Department of Industry. In 1992 he went to the back benches and became Chair of what was then the National Heritage committee. He is the writer of several books, of which the best known is How to be a Minister (1980), an irreverent look at the difficulties faced by ministers trying to control the civil service, in much the same vein as the television series Yes, Minister . He also wrote scripts for the 1960s television satire That Was The Week That Was . Kaufman is an outspoken opponent of hunting with hounds. He is also a leading member of Poale Zion an international Zionist -socialist Jewish group affiliated to the Labour party in Britain. Nonetheless, he has become one of the leading Jewish critics of Israel . He has often accused Sharon 's government of having a poor human rights record, and of failing to solve the security problems faced by both Israelis and Palestinians. Kaufman has called for economic sanctions and an arms ban against Israel, citing the success of such measures against apartheid South Africa [2] . However, surprisingly, for a critic of Israel, he voted in favour of the 2003 invasion of Iraq . He was awarded a knighthood for "services to parliament" in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2004 . Kaufman has recently claimed he has been the target of anti-Semitism from both members of pro- fox hunting groups and the Board of Deputies of British Jews .1
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Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (born 21 June 1930) is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1970 (first for Manchester Ardwick , then subsequently for Manchester Gorton ).He was both a government minister during the 1970s, and a member of the Shadow Cabinet in the 1980s.
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Kaufman as Shadow Foreign Secretary with Taha Yassin Ramadan in Iraq in 1988 Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (born 21 June 1930) is a British Labour politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1970 , first for Manchester Ardwick and then for Manchester Gorton .He was a government minister in the 1970s and a member of the Shadow Cabinet in the 1980s.He is the current Father of the House after the retirement of Peter Tapsell in 2015.
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Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (21 June 1930 – 26 February 2017) was a British Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 until his death in 2017, first for Manchester Ardwick and then for Manchester Gorton . He was a government minister in the 1970s and a member of the Shadow Cabinet in the 1980s. Knighted in 2004, he became Father of the House in 2015 and was the oldest sitting MP of the UK Parliament at the time of his death.He was known for his forthright views, but very rarely voted against the Labour Party whip , thus his two rebellions carried greater weight.Kaufman was a critic of the state of Israel and came under criticism himself during the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal .
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British politician and author This article is about the British politician.Personal details Born Gerald Bernard Kaufman ( 1930-06-21 ) 21 June 1930 Leeds , England Died 26 February 2017 (2017-02-26) (aged 86) London, England Party Labour Alma mater Queen's College, Oxford Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (21 June 1930 – 26 February 2017) was a British politician and author who served as a minister throughout the Labour government of 1974 to 1979 .Elected as a member of parliament (MP) at the 1970 general election , he became Father of the House in 2015 and served until his death in 2017.Born in Leeds to a Polish Jewish family, Kaufman was secretary of the Oxford University Labour Club while studying philosophy, politics and economics at The Queen's College, Oxford .After graduating from Oxford, he worked as a journalist at the Daily Mirror and the New Statesman and as a writer at BBC Television .Again becoming active in the Labour Party , he served as an adviser to Harold Wilson during Wilson's first tenure as Prime Minister before being elected to the House of Commons himself at the 1970 general election to represent Manchester Ardwick .Kaufman served in the Labour government at the Department of the Environment under Harold Wilson and at the Department of Industry under James Callaghan respectively.After the government was defeated at the 1979 general election , he was a member of the Shadow Cabinet in the 1980s.When the Manchester Ardwick constituency was abolished in boundary changes, he successfully contested Manchester Gorton at the 1983 general election .Later in his career, he served as an influential backbencher as chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee from 1992 to 2005 and was knighted in 2004.Despite criticism during the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal , when he was found to have made excess claims to the parliamentary fees office, he continued to serve in the House of Commons and was the UK's oldest sitting MP at the time of his death in February 2017.Known for his forthright views expressed over his political career, Kaufman was an outspoken opponent of fox hunting , an advocate of Palestinian statehood and famously described his party's 1983 general election manifesto as " the longest suicide note in history ".A strong critic of the state of Israel , he called for economic sanctions against the state and denounced the state for committing atrocities (which he phrased as war crimes ) against the Palestinian people and their nation .There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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british labour member of parliament who was a government minister during the 1970s
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british labour politician who served as a member of parliament
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