Graham Tope, Baron Tope

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name = Lord Tope
honorific-suffix = CBE


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constituency_AM = the Liberal Democrats (London-wide)
assembly = London
term_start = 4 May 2000
term_end = 1 May 2008
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constituency_MP2 = Sutton and Cheam
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term_start2 = 7 December 1972
term_end2 = 28 February 1974
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predecessor2 = Richard Sharples
successor2 = Neil Macfarlane
birth_date = Birth date and age|1943|11|30|df=yes
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nationality = British
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party = Liberal Democrats, Liberal Party (1972-1988)
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Graham Norman Tope, Baron Tope, CBE (born 30 November 1943) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He is also a councillor in the London Borough of Sutton.

In 1972, Tope captured the seat of Sutton and Cheam at a parliamentary by-election from the Conservative for the Liberal Party. The Conservatives retook the seat at the February 1974 General Election.

He was made a life peer as Baron Tope, of Sutton in the London Borough of Sutton in 1994. He is a member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union and is the only person in the country to have served as a member of a European Institution, a member of the UK Parliament, a member of a regional government structure and as a borough councillor all at the same time.

At the London Assembly, he was leader of the Liberal Democrat Group until 2006, member of the Audit Panel, and member of the Transport Committee. He was also a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, which oversees the Metropolitan Police.

External links

* [http://www.libdems.org.uk/people/lord-tope-of-sutton Graham Tope: profile at the site of Liberal Democrats]
* [http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/members/former_members/topeg.jsp Graham Tope: biography from the London Assembly]