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Frank Gordon Dobson (15 March 1940 – 11 November 2019) was a British Labour Party politician. As Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St. Pancras from 1979 to 2015, he served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 to 1999, and was the Labour Party nominee for Mayor of London in 2000, finishing third in the election behind Conservative Steven Norris and the winner ...
The seat was held from 1983 to 2015 by Frank Dobson of the Labour Party, who had been elected in 1979 to the predecessor seat of Holborn & St Pancras South. Dobson was the longest-serving Labour MP in London until he stood down in 2015. The constituency has been represented by Keir Starmer since the 2015 general election.
Frank Dobson: Holborn and St Pancras: 1979 (Holborn and St Pancras South) Labour: 18 July 2014 [26] Frank Doran: Aberdeen North: 1987 (Aberdeen South) Labour: 19 October 2013 [27] Stephen Dorrell: Charnwood: 1979 (Loughborough) Conservative: 25 November 2014 [28] Jonathan Evans: Cardiff North: 1992 (Brecon and Radnorshire) Conservative: 17 ...
Frank Dobson, MP for Holborn and St. Pancras, was selected to stand, defeating former Leader of the Greater London Council Ken Livingstone and Glenda Jackson, MP for Hampstead and Highgate. Livingstone went on to run as an independent candidate in the Mayoral election, defeating Dobson, who came third behind Conservative candidate Steven Norris.
It was considered that Health secretary Frank Dobson would stand in the 2000 London mayoral election against Labour-turned-Independent Ken Livingstone. [2] But he denied accusations of him being moved out of government.
Labour MP Frank Dobson opposed recall as a threat to "hinder social progress" by "vested interests". [ 12 ] Opponents of the process further worried that MPs "in fear" of being recalled would increase the number of "automatons and lobby fodder" in the Commons.
Frank Dobson MP for Holborn and St. Pancras: 3 May 1997 11 October 1999 Labour: Blair I: Alan Milburn MP for Darlington: 11 October 1999 13 June 2003 Labour: Blair II: John Reid MP for Hamilton North and Bellshill then Airdrie and Shotts: 13 June 2003 6 May 2005 Labour: Patricia Hewitt MP for Leicester West: 6 May 2005 28 June 2007 Labour ...
It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system. The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Holborn and St Pancras.