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- Frank Dobson was the first Labour health secretary for nearly 20 years when Tony Blair appointed him after the landslide general election victory of 1997. He served two and a half years, enough time to be judged the best health secretary since Aneurin Bevan, according to BMJ polling of top medical figures in 2013.
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Frank Dobson. Frank Gordon Dobson (15 March 1940 – 11 November 2019) was a British Labour Party politician. As Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St. Pancras from 1979 to 2015, he served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 to 1999, and was the Labour Party nominee for Mayor of London in 2000, finishing third in ...
Nov 12, 2019 · The veteran Labour politician Frank Dobson, who served as health secretary under Tony Blair, has died aged 79. A popular figure in the party, he left government to contest the first-ever London...
Though best remembered for his humiliating defeat at the hands of Ken Livingstone in the first London mayoral election in 2000, Frank Dobson, the former Labour minister who has died aged 79, was...
Dec 5, 2019 · Frank Dobson was the first Labour health secretary for nearly 20 years when Tony Blair appointed him after the landslide general election victory of 1997. He served two and a half years, enough time to be judged the best health secretary since Aneurin Bevan, according to BMJ polling of top medical figures in 2013.
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- 2019
Nov 12, 2019 · Frank Dobson, Tony Blair's first health secretary after the landslide Labour election victory in 1997, has died at the age of 79. The Yorkshire-born politician resigned from the House of Commons four years ago, having serving as Holborn and St Pancras MP for 36 years. He was replaced by Sir Keir Starmer, now the shadow Brexit secretary.
Nov 12, 2019 · Frank Dobson, who has died aged 79, was an irrepressible Yorkshire-born Londoner who rallied support for Labour in opposition and was Tony Blair’s original Health Secretary. Under pressure...
Nov 12, 2019 · Former Labour Health Secretary Frank Dobson has died at the age of 79. The Yorkshire-born politician resigned from the House of Commons four years ago, having serving as Holborn and St Pancras...
