Mike Gapes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mike Gapes
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Sep 4, 1952(1952-09-04)
Age	72
Birthplace	London Borough of Redbridge
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

Mike Gapes Biography

Mike Gapes is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 4, 1952 in London Borough of Redbridge, England, United Kingdom. Michael John Gapes, born 4 September 1952, is an ex- british politician who was Member of Parliament (MP), for Ilford South between the 1992 general elections and the 2019 general elections.

From 1977 to 1992, he worked for Labour Party Headquarters, where he was International Secretary of Labour Party from 1988 to 1992. Prior to that, he was a Policy Research Officer. He was an anti-nuclear Labour Party Defence Study Group member in 1981. According to him, his most influential political thought was when he worked with Neil Kinnock to “bring the Labour Party back from 1983’s abyss.”

In his role as international secretary, in 1990 he (along with other MEPs associated with the Fabian Society) urged Kinnock and the Labour Party to be more pro-European, including full economic and monetary union, a common industrial policy, replacing the Common Agricultural Policy with a “good food policy” promoting healthier diets with fewer additives, pesticides, and diversified crops, as well as a European Security Organisation based on NATO and Warsaw Pact co-operation.

He married Frances Smith in 1992 and they divorced in 2004. Their daughter Rebecca Gapes died of sudden arrhythmic death syndrome in 2012, at the age of

19. He has two adult stepdaughters.

Mike Gapes was the son of Frank Gapes, a postman, and Emily Gapes, a shop assistant. He was raised in Wanstead Hospital and attended Staples Road Infants’ School, Loughton, and Manford County Primary School, Chigwell before attending Buckhurst Hill County High School. He went on to Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge where he received an MA in economics. In 1973, he was also the secretary of the Cambridge Students Union. After completing his education at Middlesex Polytechnic, Enfield, he received a diploma and certificate in industrial relations. He then served three years as the student organizer for the Labour Party.

Mike Gapes Net Worth

Mike Gapes is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mike Gapes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Before he went to university, he worked in Swaziland as a Voluntary Service Overseas teacher. He also served as an administrator at Middlesex Hospital for a few months in 1976.

Mike Gapes was the founder, member and convenor of Clause Four Group in 1973. He also served as the sixth Chair of National Organisation of Labour Students between 1976 and 1977. This position was taken over after the defeat of the Trotskyist Militant tendencies. He was the first National Student Organiser for the Labour Party in 1977.

Gapes contested Ilford North at the 1983 general election but was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Vivian Bendall by some 11,201 votes. He unsuccessfully stood for election to Wandsworth Borough Council in the 1986 election for West Hill ward in Putney, losing by only 50 votes.

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Who is Mike Gapes Dating?

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He has been an officer of many all-party Parliamentary Groups: he is currently Chair of the All-Party Crossrail Group, Chair of the All-Party Global Security and non Proliferation Group and Chair of the All-Party United Nations Group. He was part of the Northern Ireland team which negotiated the Belfast Agreement in Belfast in 1998. He has travelled widely on parliamentary business including to Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iran, China, Japan, Korea, Russia, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Angola, and Sierra Leone.

Facts & Trivia

Mike Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Mike Gapes celebrates birthday on September 4 of every year.

Regarding the Iraq War of 2003, Gapes voted in favour of the Blair government for the invasion of Iraq. He called the Chilcot Inquiry into the causes of the war a waste of public money, saying that it was a result of “hysterical” anti- Blair prejudice. He criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for apologising “on behalf of [the Labour Party] for the disastrous decision to go to war in Iraq”, and argued in 2016 and 2019 that the Middle East (especially Iraq and Syria) were better off following the British and American intervention.