Jim fitzpatrick mp biography channel
•
East London MP Jim Fitzpatrick appointed minister for the horse
Minister for the horse, Jane Kennedy, resigned on Monday after refusing to pledge her support for Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
In her place, Mr Brown has appointed East London MP Jim Fitzpatrick.
Mr Fitzpatrick, a former parliamentary beneath secretary of state at the Department of försändelse, takes over as minister for food, farming and the environment. The year-old football fan also takes over as minister for the horse.
In her seven months in office, Jane Kennedy openly pledged her support for the horse industry, but in reality had the chance to achieve very little. Sudden ill health prevented her from addressing the National Equine Forum in London in March — a much-awaited chance for the industry to pose questions to the minister.
In her place, Jim Fitzpatrick appears on the surface to be as far removed from horses, farming and the rural environment as fryst vatten possible.
MP for Po
•
One veteran Labour MP’s view on Brexit gives a clue as to how the rest of the party will follow
Jim Fitzpatrick has been a Labour MP for 21 years, being first elected in the new dawn of He was a firefighter before he became an MP. He served as a government whip and a minister for most of the New Labour years.
Like most Labour MPs he is out of tune with the Jeremy Corbyn party, but he is no Blairite. He resigned from the Labour front bench in protest against Ed Miliband’s refusal to rule out support for punitive strikes on the Assad regime in Syria for its use of chemical weapons. “I am opposed to military intervention in Syria, full stop,” he said.
He had just turned 65 and was planning to stand down at the next election when Theresa May surprised everyone by calling an election in He was one of the few MPs to vote against having an election, but he fought it anyway.
So when he spoke in the House of Commons on Friday and said that he was “talking myself into supporting the pri
•
Irish News owner Jim Fitzpatrick dies
Jim Fitzpatrick, chairman of daily newspaper The Irish News, has died.
Mr Fitzpatrick, who was 92, had owned the Belfast newspaper since the early s.
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin expressed his sadness at the death of Mr Fitzpatrick.
Mr Martin said he had the "great privilege" of knowing Mr Fitzpatrick for many years and that added that he was "in every respect, a true gentleman".
"In his decades-long stewardship of The Irish News, he was a profoundly important advocate for an end to violence in the north," Mr Martin added.
"His role in the earliest days of the embryonic peace process is not widely known, but it was crucial.
"In his support for and leadership of the Chamber of Commerce in Belfast, he brought together people from all backgrounds in common constructive cause and was an example of true civic leadership.
"In his quiet and ceaseless phila