biography
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Gould, Bryan (Charles)
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| lived:
| (1939– )
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| biography:
| Former British politician, now Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University, New Zealand, born in New Zealand. He studied at Auckland University and Oxford, joined the British diplomatic service, but left to teach at Worcester College, Oxford (1968–74). He entered the House of Commons as a Labour MP in 1974, lost his seat in the 1979 general election, but returned in 1983, having spent the intervening four years as a television journalist. His rise in the Labour Party was rapid, and in 1986 he was elected to the shadow Cabinet, but resigned in 1992 (as a leading ‘Eurosceptic’) over the Party's policy on Europe. He was defeated in a bid for the Party leadership in 1992. |
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