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The Rt Hon Denis MacShane MP |
The Rt Hon Dr Denis MacShane has been a Labour MP since 1994. He worked as a PPS and Minister at the FCO after 1997, latterly as Minister for Europe 2002-2005.
Dr MacShane has written several books on international affairs and writes regularly for British and European papers on foreign affairs. He is a member of the Council of Europe and serves on the Nato Parliamentary Assembly. He is a former chair of the Fabian Society and an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck College where he obtained a PhD after a first degree at Merton College, Oxford. He worked as a journalist for the BBC before becoming President of the National Union of Journalists.
In the 1980s, he worked in Poland, South Africa, South Korea and Latin America with democratic trade unionists struggling to replace authoritarian regimes by democratically elected governments. He was arrested and held by the communist police in Poland and the apartheid police in South Africa for these activities.
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