Except for a spell as a VSO teacher in Swaziland in a gap year before attending university in 1972, and a few months working as an administrator at the Middlesex Hospital in 1976, he has worked entirely in full time politics either for the Labour Party or as an elected Member of Parliament.
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During the 2001 and 2005 General Election campaigns, he was the target of some Muslim groups seeking to unseat him because of his alleged anti-Muslim bias.
He contested the constituency of Ilford South six times from October 1974 to 1997, and was the Member of Parliament for the seat from 1979 to 1992, when he lost by 402 votes to Labour's Mike Gapes.
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