Coordinates | 40°54′43″N86°19′58″N |
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honorific-prefix | The Right Honourable |
name | Denis MacShane |
honorific-suffix | MP |
office | Minister of State for Europe |
primeminister | Tony Blair |
predecessor | Peter Hain |
successor | Douglas Alexander |
term start | 3 April 2002 |
term end | 5 May 2005 |
office1 | Member of Parliament for Rotherham |
majority1 | 10,462 (27.9%) |
predecessor1 | James Boyce |
successor1 | Incumbent |
term start1 | 5 May 1994 |
birth date | May 21, 1948 |
birth place | Glasgow |
nationality | British |
partner | Carol Barnes (1975-1981) Joan Smith |
spouse | Liliana Klaptocz (m. 1983) Nathalie Pham (m. 1987 div 2003) |
children | 4 daughters, 1 son |
religion | Roman Catholic |
party | Labour (Currently Suspended) |
alma mater | Merton College, Oxford, University of London |
website | http://www.denismacshane.com/ |
footnotes | }} |
On 14 October 2010, it was announced that the Parliamentary Labour Party had withdrawn the whip from MacShane while he is under criminal investigation in respect of his expenses claims.
In his spare time, MacShane enjoys skiing and running.
MacShane supported the Solidarity trade union in Poland, where he was arrested in 1982 for attending a demonstration and deported. He became an activist for the National Union of Journalists and later its president. He was policy director of the International Metal Workers' Federation from 1980 to 1992, and he completed a PhD in international economics at the University of London in 1990. MacShane founded the European Policy Institute of which he was the director from 1992 to 1994.
After the 2005 general election, he was dropped from the government. MacShane's failure to remain in government is believed by some to have been because he was neither overtly a Blairite nor a Brownite, and thus, in his own words, having "no hand to push [him] up the greasy pole". However, his position was considered to be untenable after comments he made to a meeting of Durham Labour Students in which he described Gordon Brown's five economic tests as, "a bit of a giant red herring." When contacted by The Scotsman newspaper about whether or not he made the comments he responded: "Jesus Christ, no. I mean, ‘red herring’ is not one of my favourite metaphors. If you think any Labour MP saying the Prime Minister’s most important policy is a red herring, then they would not survive long in the job." However, he had been recorded on a dictaphone, and the tape was played on both the Today Programme and BBC News 24. MacShane himself wrote in Tribune, "I have no idea why I was removed as a minister, and it does not worry me in the slightest."
In 2005, he signed on to the Henry Jackson Society principles, advocating a proactive approach to the spread of liberal democracy across the world, including by military intervention. The society also supports "European military modernisation and integration under British leadership". In 2003, he criticised the Muslim community, saying they did not do enough to condemn acts of Islamic terrorism. He was a supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and strongly supported Tony Blair's foreign policy in relation to the Middle East and elsewhere.
He was chair of the inquiry panel of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Anti-Semitism, which reported in September 2006. Other members included Iain Duncan-Smith and Chris Huhne. In March 2009, he became chairman of a think-tank on anti-Semitism, the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. He is an advisory board member of Just Journalism, an independent organisation that aims to promote accurate and responsible reporting about Israel in the UK media.
MacShane was employed as an advisor by United Utilities during 2006 and 2007.
MacShane has been called "one of the few British politicians with a deep knowledge of France."
On 17 December 2008, he initiated a debate about Britain's libel laws in Parliament. Specifically, he described how the United Kingdom has become a destination for libel tourists as well as how various jurisdictions in the United States (including the U.S. states of New York and Illinois and the federal government) were ready to pass measures designed to halt, at the minimum, reciprocal enforcement of civil judgments related to libel with the United Kingdom, and quite possibly, to allow countersuit, and the award of treble damages in the United States against any person bringing a libel action in a non-US court against US publications or websites.
In total, MacShane was ordered to repay £1,507.73 in wrongfully claimed expenses, with his appeals against the ruling being rejected. In addition, MacShane is alleged to have passed twelve invoices from the "European Policy Institute" for "research and translation" expenses to the parliamentary authorities, and claimed for eight laptop computers in three years. A number of newspapers stated that the EPI was "controlled" by MacShane's brother, Edmund Matyjaszek, a claim which MacShane denied: "The EPI was set up 20 years ago by a network of people on the Left working in Europe and the US...Ed is my Brother, but simply administrates it."
It was reported on 14 October 2010 that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (on instruction from the Standards and Privileges Committee) had referred an expenses-related complaint about MacShane from the British National Party to the Metropolitan Police. The matter referred was his claiming of expenses totalling £125,000 for his constituency office, the office being his garage. The Labour Party suspended MacShane from the parliamentary party pending the outcome. On 9 December 2010, it was reported that the file had been passed from the Metropolitan Police to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration of further action. In June 2011 The Daily Telegraph highlighted further discrepancies in MacShane's expenses which had been uncovered by former independent candidate Peter Thirlwall. As a result he held an emergency meeting with House of Commons officials and agreed to repay a further £3,051.38.
MacShane had previously written an article for The Guardian in which he played down the expenses scandal, writing, "There will come a moment when moats and manure, bath plugs and tampons will be seen as a wonderful moment of British fiddling, but more on a Dad's Army scale than the real corruption of politics." In 2008, MacShane supported Michael Martin as Speaker, calling for Conservative Douglas Carswell to be disciplined for calling for Martin to resign for failing to reform expenses.
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