Colin Challen
Colin Challen | |
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| Member of Parliament for Morley and Rothwell | |
| In office 8 June 2001 – 12 April 2010 | |
| Preceded by | John Gunnell |
| Succeeded by | Constituency Abolished |
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| Born | 12 June 1953 Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Hull |
| Website | www.colinchallen.org |
Colin Robert Challen (born 12 June 1953) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Morley and Rothwell from 2001 until the constituency's abolition at the 2010 election.
Early life
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Challen was born in
Career
Challen unsuccessfully stood for
A member of the League Against Cruel Sports for over 40 years, he served on several select committees: The Environmental Audit Committee (since 2001), the Joint Committee on Consolidation of Bills (since 2001), the Unopposed Bills Panel (since 2004) and the DECC Select committee (2009/10). He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.
On 29 January 2007 Challen announced that he would not contest the 2010 general election after a Boundary Commission review abolished his constituency, thus letting Ed Balls contest the new Morley and Outwood constituency, formed from a merger of parts of Morley and Rothwell and Balls' also abolished Normanton constituency.
In 2013 Challen opened an art gallery called 'artHERENT' in Scarborough (North Yorkshire) Market, to display recent works. The first exhibition, "Is there any hope for the dead? Reliquaries and other items" started in September 2013. His most recent exhibition "Drawing on Myth" in 2017 was exhibited at the Woodend Creative Workspace in Scarborough. Challen also exhibited in Hull with the Kingston Art Group in 2017 following Hull being named as the City of Culture.[3] In 2020 Challen gained an MA in fine art at Teesside University (MIMA School of Art and Design).
Climate change work
Challen founded the All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change in 2005,[4] and has written that he believes the "catastrophic destabilisation of global climate represents the greatest threat that humanity faces."[5] In 2004, Challen presented a
In the
Works
- The Price of Power: Secret Funding of the Tory Party (VISION Investigations) by Colin Challen, 1998, Vision Paperbacks / Satin Publications, ISBN 1-901250-18-0
- In Defence of the Party: The Secret State, the Conservative Party and Dirty Tricks by Colin Challen, Mike Hughes 1996, Medium Publishing Co., ISBN 1-872398-01-4
- Too Little Too Late: The politics of climate change by Colin Challen, 2009 Picnic Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9560370-0-8
References
- ^ https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo010625/debtext/10625-23.htm#10625-23_spnew0 [bare URL]
- ^ "Election 2005 | Results | Morley & Rothwell". BBC News. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ "About". Colin Challen. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ "About Colin Challen". Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
- ^ a b "Labour MP wants total ban on domestic flights". Cheapflights Ltd. 4 December 2009. Archived from the original on 8 December 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
- ^ UK All Party Parliamentary report into TEQs, p.39
- ^ Reed, Jonathan (26 November 2009). "MP urges cut in speed limit to save the planet". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
- ^ "Local election results". Yorkshire Post. 7 May 2011. p. 16.
External links
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Colin Challen MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Colin Challen MP
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