Everything about Mike Hancock Uk Politician totally explained
Michael Thomas Hancock CBE (born
April 9,
1946), known as
Mike Hancock, is a
British politician. He is
Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for
Portsmouth South and a City councillor for Fratton ward..
Mike Hancock was born in
Portsmouth,
Hampshire, the son of a
sailor, he was educated locally at the Copnor and
Portsea School. He worked as an
engineer until he was first elected to
parliament, and in the years between his parliamentary career he worked as both a director of the
Daytime Club at the
BBC and as a district officer for
MENCAP.
He joined the
Labour Party in
1968 and was elected as a councillor to the
Portsmouth City Council in
1970, he left the Labour Party and joined the new
Social Democratic Party (SDP) in
1981, and became the leader of the council in
1989 until his second election to the
House of Commons, and he remains the member for
Fratton on the city council. He was also elected to the
Hampshire County Council in
1973, becoming the leader of the Labour group on the council in
1977 until he left party, leading the council
1989-
97 when he stood down.
He unsusccessfully contested
Portsmouth South for the SDP at the
1983 General Election but was defeated by the sitting
Conservative MP
Bonner Pink by 12,335 votes. Pink died on
May 6,
1984, and Hancock was elected, again for the SDP, at the
by-election by 1,341 votes. However, he was defeated at the
1987 General Election to the Tory
David Martin by just 205 votes. He narrowly lost the seat to Martin again at the
1992 General Election, this time by just 242 votes. He also contested the
European Parliament seat of
Wight and Hampshire in
1994. He returned to parliament at the
1997 General Election, defeating Martin by 4,327 votes and has held the seat for the Liberal Democrats since.
He was promoted to the
frontbench by
Paddy Ashdown in
1997 as the spokesman on
foreign and commonwealth affairs until
2000 when he was moved by
Charles Kennedy to speak on the environment, transport and the regions, but returned to the
backbenches following the
2001 General Election. He has been a member of both the
defence select committee and the
Speaker's panel of chairmen since
1999. He is the vice chairman of the all party groups on
Russia,
Croatia, and
football
He has been married to Jacqueline Elliott since
1967 and has a son and a daughter. He has been the chairman of the southern region of the
NSPCC since
1989 and has been the vice chairman of Portsmouth Dock since
1992 and was awarded the
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the same year. He is a former member of the
Salvation Army.
It was reported that he signed nomination forms for more than one
candidate in the 2006
Liberal Democrat leadership election, in order to ensure a 'proper contest'.
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