The Right Honourable
The Lord Tope
CBE
Official portrait, 2020
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
4 October 1994
Life Peerage
Member of the London Assembly
for (London-wide)
In office
4 May 2000 – 1 May 2008
Preceded byAssembly Created
Succeeded byCaroline Pidgeon
Member of Parliament
for Sutton and Cheam
In office
7 December 1972 – 8 February 1974
Preceded byRichard Sharples
Succeeded byNeil Macfarlane
Personal details
Born (1943-11-30) 30 November 1943
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal Democrats, Liberal Party (1972-1988)

Graham Norman Tope, Baron Tope, CBE (born 30 November 1943) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom.[1][2] He was also a councillor in the London Borough of Sutton until 2014.[3]

In 1972, Tope captured the seat of Sutton and Cheam at a parliamentary by-election from the Conservatives for the Liberal Party. The Conservatives retook the seat at the February 1974 general election.[4]

In November 1973, Tope was made spokesperson for the Liberal Party on health and social security and Northern Ireland.[5]

Having been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1991 Birthday Honours,[6] Tope was created a life peer as Baron Tope, of Sutton in the London Borough of Sutton on 4 October 1994.[7] He is a member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union and is the only person in the country to have served as a member of a European Institution, a member of the UK Parliament, a member of a regional government structure and as a borough councillor all at the same time.[8]

At the London Assembly, he was leader of the Liberal Democrat Group until 2006, member of the Audit Panel, and member of the Transport Committee. He was also a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, which oversees the Metropolitan Police.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Mr Graham Tope". Hansard. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "Parliamentary career for Lord Tope - MPs and Lords". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Sutton Central Ward". Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Experience for Lord Tope - MPs and Lords". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  5. ↑ John Groser (23 November 1973). "'Portfolios' for Liberal MPs". The Times. No. 58946. London. col d, p. 2. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  6. ↑ "No. 52563". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1991. p. 9.
  7. ↑ "No. 53812". The London Gazette. 7 October 1994. p. 14073.
  8. ↑ "Experience for Lord Tope - MPs and Lords". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  9. ↑ "Experience for Lord Tope - MPs and Lords". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
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