Ivan Lewis

Ivan Lewis

Infobox Politician
name = Ivan Lewis


office = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development
term_start = 5 October 2008
term_end =
primeminister = Gordon Brown
predecessor = Gillian Merron
successor = Incumbent
office2 = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Care Services
term_start2 = 15 May 2006
term_end2 = 3 October 2008
primeminister2 = Tony Blair
predecessor2 = Norman Warner
successor2 = Phil Hope
constituency_MP3 = Bury South
term_start3 = 1 May 1997
term_end3 =
majority3 = 8,912 (22.8%)
predecessor3 = David Sumberg
successor3 = Incumbent
birth_date = birth date and age|1967|03|04|df=yes
birth_place = Prestwich, Bury
death_date =
death_place =
nationality = British
spouse = Juliette Fox
party = Labour
relations =
children =
residence =
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website =
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Ivan Lewis (born 4 March 1967, Prestwich, Bury) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is the member of Parliament for Bury South, and is a member of the Labour Party. He was first elected in the 1997 general election. Lewis is currently Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for International Development.

Early life

Lewis was educated at the (former independent) William Hulme Grammar School in Manchester, Stand Sixth Form College (former Stand Grammar School, now closed) and Bury College.

Member of Parliament

In government

Lewis was moved to a junior ministerial position in the Department of Health in the Cabinet reshuffle in May 2006. He previously held junior ministerial posts in the Treasury and the Department for Education and Skills, and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Stephen Byers when he was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. On 29 June 2007 in Brown's first reshuffle as Prime Minister he was re-appointed to the post of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department of Health, the only junior minister to survive the reshuffle where he held on to the brief for social care and added mental health services. On 3 October 2008 he was moved to the Department for International Development. His has served as Chief Executive of Jewish Social Services in Manchester.

Ivan Lewis also consistently supported plans to close Prestwich Arts College, in his local area, due to falling pupil numbers. The plans have now been dismissed (voted out 3-0 by the School's Organisation Committee).

Controversy

In 2008, Ivan Lewis was described in the House of Commons as an "arsehole" by Greg Mulholland MP, following Lewis's refusal to allow Mulholland to intervene to correct statements Lewis had made in debate on hospice funding. [cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7221750.stm
title=MP defends himself over swearing|accessdate=2008-03-12
] .

Personal life

He is Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, and a trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust. Before his election he was the Chief Executive of Manchester Jewish Social Services. He married Juliette Fox in June 1990 in Stockport and they have two sons. Ivan is a lifelong Manchester City fan. [http://www.dfes.gov.uk/pns/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2001_0276]

In 2006 Ivan Lewis left his wife (Juliette) of sixteen years for Margaret Gibb, a councilor. [http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/article22813.ece]

In 2008, The Department of Health confirmed that Ivan Lewis had made an apology for his behavior when in 2007 he began sending increasingly intimate text messages to then aide Suzie Mason, which ultimately led to her registering concern, and successfully seeking an alternative position within the Civil Service before leaving for the private sector. [http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/article22813.ece] Nick Cohen pointed out in "The Observer" on 14 September 2008 that the revelations about Lewis' private life followed articles by Lewis which constituted coded attacks on Gordon Brown. [Nick Cohen [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/14/gordonbrown.labour "Call off your mafioso aides, Mr Brown",] "The Observer", 14 September 2008.]

References

External links

* [http://www.prestwich.bury.sch.uk Prestwich Arts College's Website]
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-3107,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Ivan Lewis MP]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/ivan_lewis/bury_south TheyWorkForYou.com - Ivan Lewis MP]
* [http://www.burysouthlabour.org.uk/html/ivan_lewis_mp.html Constituency web site - Your Labour MP: Ivan Lewis]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/109.stm BBC Politics]
* [http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/article22813.ece The Sun Newspaper website]

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NAME= Lewis, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=British politician, Member of Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH= 1967-03-04
PLACE OF BIRTH= Prestwich, Bury
DATE OF DEATH=
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