Alan Thomas Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, CBE, PC, (born 11 June 1944, Marylebone) is a British politician, and was a Member of Parliament from 1983 until 2005.
He is the son of Major Thomas Howarth MC (headmaster of King Edward's School, Birmingham between 1948-52 and born in 1914) and Margaret Teakle. She was a WREN in the Second World War. He was educated at Rugby School and gained a BA in History from King's College, Cambridge in 1965.
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Alan Thomas Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, CBE, PC, (born 11 June 1944, Marylebone) is a British politician, and was a Member of Parliament from 1983 until 2005.
He is the son of Major Thomas Howarth MC (headmaster of King Edward's School, Birmingham between 1948-52 and born in 1914) and Margaret Teakle. She was a WREN in the Second World War. He was educated at Rugby School and gained a BA in History from King's College, Cambridge in 1965.
Howarth was Conservative Party MP for Stratford-on-Avon, first elected in 1983. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science from 1989 to 1992.
In 1995 he defected from the Conservative Party to the Labour Party, the first MP to defect directly from the Conservatives to Labour, and the first former Conservative MP to sit as a Labour MP since Sir Oswald Mosley. He wanted a new seat to contest as a Labour candidate and, after failing to win the seats of Wentworth and Wythenshawe and Sale East, he was selected for...
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