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- Bob Hughes
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- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Biography
a politician, from United Kingdom.
Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside (3 January 1932 – 7 January 2022) was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 27 years, and was also Chair of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) from 1976 until it was dissolved in 1995 after the ending of apartheid in South Africa.
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member of the House of Lords
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member of the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom
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member of the 50th Parliament of the United Kingdom
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Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
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member of the 49th Parliament of the United Kingdom
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member of the 48th Parliament of the United Kingdom
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member of the 47th Parliament of the United Kingdom
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member of the 46th Parliament of the United Kingdom
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member of the 45th Parliament of the United Kingdom
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