James "Jim" Fitzpatrick (born 4 April 1952) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Poplar and Canning Town since 1997, and is Minister of State for Farming and the Environment at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Jim Fitzpatrick was born in Glasgow, Scotland and was educated locally at the Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Crosshill. From 1970 he was a trainee with Tytrak in Glasgow, before...
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James "Jim" Fitzpatrick (born 4 April 1952) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Poplar and Canning Town since 1997, and is Minister of State for Farming and the Environment at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Jim Fitzpatrick was born in Glasgow, Scotland and was educated locally at the Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Crosshill. From 1970 he was a trainee with Tytrak in Glasgow, before moving to London in 1973 to become a driver with Mintex. In 1974 he became a firefighter with the London Fire Brigade, being awarded the long service medal in 1994, he left the brigade on his election to Westminster.
He is married to Dr Sheila Fitzpatrick and has two children from a previous marriage. He supports West Ham United Football Club. He is also a vegetarian.
He was for a number of years in the 1970s a member of the Socialist Workers Party but left it around 1981. At the time he was noted for his trade union militancy in the Fire...
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