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Mike Gapes MP Articles

A more progressive world

The new Labour government in 1997 was immediately internationalist in its approach, recalls Mike Gapes The 1997 government hit the ground running – on aid, ethics, Ireland and Europe – and brought a new dynamism to Britain’s relationship with the rest of the world....

Fall of the Berlin Wall: would Poland suffer, again?

On 9 November 1989 as senior international officer of the Labour party I was in Warsaw as a member of a delegation of about 10 members of the Socialist International Disarmament Advisory Committee led by Kalevi Sorsa, the former foreign minister and later prime...

Why hadn’t others been successful?

With the 20th anniversary of the 1992 defeat on April 9, Progress is looking back at memories of that election. Read Paul Richards' piece on 'the worst loss of all' here. I was selected as the Labour and Co-operative candidate for Ilford South in February 1990. Ilford...

Oona for mayor

Ilford South MP Mike Gapes explains why he is backing Oona King for mayor of London and why Labour mustn’t be complacent for winning London in 2012