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Anthony Louis Banks, Baron Stratford (8 April 1942〔Birth certificate〕〔Oxford Dictionary of National Biography〕 – 8 January 2006) was a British Labour Party politician, who was a member of parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2005, before being made a Member of the House of Lords. In government, he served as Minister for Sport from 1997 to 1999. He was well known in the House of Commons for his acid tongue.〔(BBC report on "wit and wisdom of Tony Banks" ), ''BBC News'', 8 January 2006〕 ==Career== Banks was born at Jubilee Maternity Hospital, Belfast, the only son and elder child of Albert Herbert Banks, a sergeant in the Royal Army Service Corps, who before the Second World War had been a toolmaker, and his wife, Olive Irene (Rene), née Rusca. The family returned to England after the birth and he grew up in Brixton and Tooting. He was educated in London at St. John's School, Brixton, Tenison's School in Kennington, the University of York and the London School of Economics. Banks worked as an assistant general secretary for the Association of Broadcasting Staff union, which represented staff in the BBC and other broadcasting organisations. It later merged with other unions to form BECTU. For several years Banks was responsible for freelances. In 1964 he unsuccessfully stood for the Liberal Party in the first elections to the new London Boroughs. He later joined the Labour Party, and during the 1970s and 1980s was a prominent Labour member of the Greater London Council, representing Hammersmith (1970–1977) and Tooting (1981–1986). He was chairman of the GLC from 1985 until its abolition in 1986. Having unsuccessfully contested East Grinstead in 1970, Newcastle upon Tyne North in October 1974 and Watford in 1979, in 1983 he was elected Labour MP for Newham North West, which he represented for 14 years. He defeated his predecessor, Arthur Lewis, who had been deselected as Labour candidate. Following a 1995 boundary review, Newham North West was expanded and renamed West Ham for the 1997 election and Banks represented that seat until the 2005 election, when he stood down. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tony Banks, Baron Stratford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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