Phil Hope
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| Minister of State for Health | |
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In office 5 October 2008 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Ivan Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Simon Burns |
| Minister for the East Midlands | |
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In office 24 January 2008 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Gillian Merron |
| Succeeded by | Office Abolished |
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Member of Parliament for Corby |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | William Powell |
| Succeeded by | Louise Mensch |
| Majority | 1,517 (3.1%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 April 1955 Battersea, London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour Co-operative |
| Spouse(s) | Allison Butt |
| Alma mater | University of Exeter |
Philip Ian Hope (born 19 April 1955) is a former British Labour Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Corby from 1997 until 2010, when he lost his seat to the Conservatives. He held several ministerial roles during his time as an MP. Since January 2011 he has been co-director of ImprovingCare.
Phil Hope was born in Battersea, the son of A.G. Hope, a Metropolitan Police commander, and Grace Thorogood. He was educated at Wandsworth Comprehensive School (became Sutherland Grove School, now knocked down and turned into a development of flats) on Sutherland Grove in Southfields and St Lukes College, Exeter where he was awarded a BEd (1st) degree in 1978. On leaving university in Exeter, he taught science for a year at Kettering School for Boys, before joining the National Council for Voluntary Organisations in 1979 as a youth policy advisor. He was appointed as the head of the Young Volunteers Resource Unit at the National Youth Bureau in 1982, before becoming a management consultant from Framework in 1985, becoming the Director of the Framework in Print Publishing Co-operative.
He joined the Labour Party in 1978, and the Co-operative party in 1982. He was elected as a councillor to the Kettering Borough Council in 1983, becoming the deputy Labour group leader in 1986, before leaving the council in 1987. He unsuccessfully contested Kettering at the 1992 General Election where he came second to the sitting Conservative Party transport minister Roger Freeman by 11,154 votes. He was elected to the Northamptonshire County Council in 1993, becoming the chairman of the Labour group in the same year, before standing down in 1997. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election for Corby, defeating the Conservative MP William Powell by 11,860 votes and remained the MP there until the 2010 election. He made his maiden speech on 14 May 1997.[1]
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