Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Balkans and Latin America
In office 11 June 2001 – 3 April 2002
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Bill Rammell
Member of Parliament for Rotherham
In office 5 May 1994 – 5 November 2012
Preceded by
James Boyce
Succeeded by
Sarah Champion
Personal details
Born
Josef Denis Matyjaszek
(1948-05-21) 21 May 1948 (age 75) Glasgow, Scotland
Political party
Independent (since 2012)
Other political affiliations
Labour (expelled in 2012)
Spouses
Liliana Kłaptoć (1983–1986)
Nathalie Pham (1987–2003)
Domestic partners
Carol Barnes (1975–1981)
Joan Smith (2003–2010)
Children
4 daughters
1 son
Residence(s)
Clapham and Rotherham
Alma mater
Merton College, Oxford
Birkbeck, University of London
Website
Official website
Denis MacShane (born Josef Denis Matyjaszek; 21 May 1948) is a British former politician, author, commentator and convicted criminal who served as Minister of State for Europe from 2002 to 2005. He joined the Labour Party in 1970 and has held most party offices. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham from 1994 to his forced resignation in 2012.
Born in Glasgow to an Irish mother and Polish father who died from war-related illness in 1958, MacShane was educated on a Middlesex County scholarship at St Benedict's School, Ealing and studied at Merton College, Oxford. He worked as a BBC journalist and trade unionist before completing a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London. He contested the Solihull constituency in October 1974 but was unsuccessful. After failing to be selected to contest a constituency at the 1992 general election, he was elected to parliament for Rotherham at a 1994 by-election. Following the 2001 general election, he was appointed a junior minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In April 2002, he became Minister of State for Europe and was appointed to the Privy Council. He returned to the backbenches following the 2005 general election.
In November 2012, Labour suspended MacShane when the Standards and Privileges Committee found he had submitted 19 false invoices "plainly intended to deceive" the parliamentary expenses authority. The allegations, which were made by the British National Party, had been investigated for 20 months by the Metropolitan Police. After the Commons upheld the complaint, he announced his intention to resign as MP for Rotherham and from the Privy Council. In November 2013, he pleaded guilty to false accounting at the Old Bailey, by submitting false receipts for £12,900. On 23 December, he was sentenced to six months in prison. He served four months of his sentence in HM Prison Belmarsh and HM Prison Brixton, and the rest by wearing an electronic tag.
DenisMacShane (born Josef Denis Matyjaszek; 21 May 1948) is a British former politician, author, commentator and convicted criminal who served as Minister...
pleading guilty to charges of false accounting. He was later jailed. DenisMacShane on 5 November 2012, announced his resignation as an MP, forcing a by-election...
the course of justice contrary to common law. He sentenced another MP DenisMacShane for fraud in the aftermath of the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal...
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1993. After the end of her marriage, Smith started a relationship with DenisMacShane, a British Labour Party politician at the time. On 25 May 2009, during...
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murdered) Ian Huntley (moved to HM Prison Frankland in 2008) Usman Khan DenisMacShane Thomas Mair (moved to HM Prison Frankland) Jordan McSweeney (moved to...
children. The elder, Clare, was from her six-year relationship with DenisMacShane, later a Labour Foreign Office minister. Clare Barnes was born in 1979...
Palestinian boy being "gunned down by the Zionist SS". According to DenisMacShane in Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism (2008), it was Paulin's...
junior Foreign Office Ministers DenisMacShane and Ben Bradshaw and from May–October 2002 was PPS to DenisMacShane and Mike O'Brien. In November 2002...
in Brixton from late 1968 to early 1969, when they were convicted. DenisMacShane Glenn Danzig and Bobby Steele of punk rock band The Misfits spent two...
by-election, which was triggered by the resignation of the constituency's MP, DenisMacShane. At the by-election, Champion was elected as MP for Rotherham with 46...
distortion of both past and present." The former UK Minister for Europe, DenisMacShane, has described Laughland as "one of the intellectual architects of Brexit"...
ministers at the Prime Minister's discretion. This first occurred when DenisMacShane was replaced by Douglas Alexander after the 2005 general election, although...
Tony Blair by US President George W. Bush. In response, then UK MP DenisMacShane said, "After the Republican defeat in the midterm election, every little...
Sunday Times, 21 February 2010. MacShane, Denis (10 February 2010). "Letter To Amnesty International from DenisMacShane, Member of British Parliament"...
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misconduct in a public office and had his offices searched. Labour MP DenisMacShane argued parliamentary privilege should have granted him protection from...
originally formed by ShaneMacGowan (of the Pogues) and Paul "Mad Dog" McGuinness, who play a blend of rock, Irish folk and Americana. ShaneMacGowan and The...
Shipley". BBC News. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2010. "MP's expenses: DenisMacShane resigns over false invoices". BBC News. 2 November 2012. Archived from...
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