Michael Bates, Baron Bates
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Michael Walton Bates, Baron Bates is a British Conservative Party politician. He has served in the House of Lords since 2008, having previously represented the constituency of Langbaurgh in the House
Official portrait, 2019
Lord Bates walking into Trafalgar Square, London, after taking nearly six-and-a-half million steps in a 3,000-mile walk across Europe to raise awareness of the UN resolution on the Olympic Truce (2012).
Ashok Kumar was a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland from 1997 until his sudden death shortly before the 2010 general election.
Michael Bates, Baron Bates
…Party. Bates contested the November 1991 by-election in Langbaurgh caused by the death of Conservative MP Richard Holt. He lost the election to Labour's Ashok Kumar. Five months after his defeat in the by-election, a general election was held. Bates was elected for Langbaurgh, defeating Kumar. Bates was appointed…
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