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After giving "generously" to Tony Blair's "blind trust", Mitchell was ennobled in 2000 and initially took the Labour whip. He served on the Science and Technology Select Committee. In September 2002 he wrote to The Times claiming justification for the War on Iraq, and denounced critics as leaving a "stench of appeasement in the air". In 2012 he was appointed Shadow Business Minister but stepped down in 2013. In July 2013 he was appointed as Labour's Enterprise Adviser. |
After giving "generously" to Tony Blair's "blind trust", Mitchell was ennobled in 2000 and initially took the Labour whip. He served on the Science and Technology Select Committee. In September 2002 he wrote to The Times claiming justification for the War on Iraq, and denounced critics as leaving a "stench of appeasement in the air". In 2012 he was appointed Shadow Business Minister but stepped down in 2013. In July 2013 he was appointed as Labour's Enterprise Adviser. |
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On September 24, 2016, Mitchell resigned from the Labour Party on the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. |
On September 24, 2016, Mitchell resigned from the Labour Party on the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. A nation mourned. |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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Revision as of 15:10, 24 September 2016
Parry Andrew Mitchell, Baron Mitchell (born 6 May 1943) is a British businessman and Labour member of the House of Lords. Mitchell was rewarded in the 2000 honours with a life peerage as Baron Mitchell, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden,[1] and introduced in the House of Lords on 24 May 2000.[2]
Education
Parry Mitchell holds a B.Sc (Econ) from the University of London and an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York.
Business career
Mitchell founded, grew and subsequently sold, three international companies in the IT services sector: Standard Chartered Leasing Ltd; United Leasing plc and Syscap plc.
Today his interest is in start-up companies. He is a director of an iPad App start up in Manhattan, called Zuse - a multitasking browser, and he is also chairman of Instant Impact, based in London.
Mitchell formed and chaired the eLearning Foundation (which provides laptops for disadvantaged children); He founded an initiative called Making Connections which enables Israeli and British academics to collaborate on scientific research projects; He chaired the Coexistence Trust whose mission it was to encourage dialogue between Muslim and Jewish students on UK campuses.
Political career
Mitchell was a founder of the Social Democrats in 1980 and twice stood unsuccessfully for Parliament for the party in general elections, at Ealing Acton in 1983 and then at Salisbury in 1987.
After giving "generously" to Tony Blair's "blind trust", Mitchell was ennobled in 2000 and initially took the Labour whip. He served on the Science and Technology Select Committee. In September 2002 he wrote to The Times claiming justification for the War on Iraq, and denounced critics as leaving a "stench of appeasement in the air". In 2012 he was appointed Shadow Business Minister but stepped down in 2013. In July 2013 he was appointed as Labour's Enterprise Adviser.
On September 24, 2016, Mitchell resigned from the Labour Party on the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. A nation mourned.
Personal life
He is married to Hannah Mitchell (née Lowy), a "documentary film-maker by profession."[3] She chairs her family trust (The Lowy Mitchell Foundation) [4]
References
- ^ "No. 55847". The London Gazette. 15 May 2000.
- ^ "House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Wednesday 24 May 2000".
- ^ "Lady Hannah Lowy Mitchell". Women for Women.
- ^ "The Lowy Mitchell Foundation". Charity Commission.