Jim Fitzpatrick
Jim Fitzpatrick has been the Labour Party MP for Poplar and Limehouse since 2010. He was previously MP for Poplar and Canning Town from 1997 to 2010. In the 2015 election, Fitzpatrick retained his seat with a majority of 16,924 and 59 per cent of the vote. [1]
Fitzpatrick was appointed a shadow transport minister in 2010.[2] He resigned from this position in August 2013, in order to vote against a Labour amendment to a Government motion on Syria in the House of Commons, stating he was "opposed to military intervention in Syria, full stop".[3]
He is a former Labour minister for Defra.
Affiliations
- All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas - is a longstanding member of this APPG since 2013, later appointed vice-chair
- Student Rights - a project of the Henry Jackson Society[4]
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture - Member [5]
Notes
- ↑ Poplar & Limehouse Parliamentary constituency BBC News, 8 May 2015, accessed 21 May 2015
- ↑ Jim Fitzpatrick, www.parliament.uk, accessed 24 August 2013.
- ↑ Labour frontbencher opposed to Syria military action 'full stop' resigns, theguardian.com, 29 August 2013.
- ↑ About Us, Student Rights, 26 May 2014
- ↑ Membership List, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture, accessed 16 November 2015
