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The Right Honourable Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (born June 21, 1930) is a British Labour Member of Parliament who was a government minister during the 1970s. He is now Chairman of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee. He is known as a moderate, and a supporter of Tony Blair's reforms. He famously called the Labour Party's left-wing 1983 election manifesto "the longest suicide note in history".Born in Leeds and educated at Leeds Grammar School and the University of Oxford ( Queen's College), he became a Fabian Society staffer and a political journalist on the Daily Mirror and the New Statesman. He was a member of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's informal "kitchen cabinet". In 1965 he became a Labour Party press officer. He was elected MP for Ardwick in Manchester in 1970 and has represented Manchester Gorton since 1983.
He was a minister throughout Labour's time in power in the 1970s, first in the Department of the Environment, then in the Department of Industry. In opposition he became Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Foreign Secretary. In 1992 he went to the back benches and became Chair of what was then the National Heritage committee.
He is the writer of several books, of which the best known is How to be a Minister (1980), an irreverent look at the difficulties faced by ministers trying to control the civil service, in much the same vein as the television series Yes, MinisterYes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms about the struggle between James "Jim" Hacker (played by Paul Eddington), the government minister of the (fictional) department of Administrative Affairs (and later as Prime Minister) an. He also wrote scripts for the 1960s television satire That Was The Week That WasThat Was The Week That Was also known as TW3 was a satirical television comedy program that aired on the BBC in 1962 and 1963. Devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin, cast members included: David Frost, Roy Kinnear, Bernard Levin and Willie Rushton.
Kaufman is an outspoken opponent of huntingFox hunting is a form of hunting for foxes using a pack of scent hounds. The pack is often followed by riders on horses. Like all forms of hunting, fox hunting is a blood sport, and as such it is controversial and has been outlawed in some countries. with hounds. He is also one of Britain's most prominent JewishThe word Jew is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to either a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or a member of the Jewish culture or ethnicity. This article discusses the term as describing an ethnic group; for a critics of IsraelThis article discusses the State of Israel. For other meanings of Israel see Israel (disambiguation). The State of Israel Medinat Yisrael in Hebrew, Daulat Israil in Arabic) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea.. To bring peace to the Middle East and pointing to the SharonPrime Minister of Israel, spent many years in the Israeli Defense Forces before being elected in March 2001. Ariel Sharon ( Hebrew: ; born February 27, 1928), is a long-serving Israeli political and military leader, and has been the current Prime Minister government's failure of ending the security problems faced by both Israelis and Palestinians, Kaufman has called for economic sanctions and an arms ban against Israel, citing the success of such measures against apartheidApartheid ap-ar-taed is an Afrikaans word meaning "separation" or literally "aparthood" (or "apartness"). It was the name of the policy and the system of laws implemented and enforced by "White" minority governments in South Africa from 1948 till 1990. South AfricaSouth Africa is a republic at the southern tip of Africa. It is bordered to the north by Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the north-east by Mozambique and Swaziland. Lesotho is contained entirely inside the borders of South Africa. South Africa is one o. [1]. He was awarded a knighthood for "services to parliament" in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2004.
Kaufman has recently described his experiences of being the target of anti-Semitism from both pro- fox hunting groups and the Board of Deputies of British Jews. [2]
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