Tom Levitt was born on 10 April 1954 and is a former British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for High Peak from the 1997 to 2010 general elections.
19 Facts About Tom Levitt
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Tom Levitt is a biology graduate of Lancaster University and has a teaching qualification from Oxford University.
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Tom Levitt is the author of a textbook on intertidal ecology.
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Tom Levitt had 14 years service at all levels of local government, including Derbyshire County Council, where he was for a year a vice chair of Education.
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Tom Levitt was a member of the management committee of High Peak Citizens Advice Bureau.
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Tom Levitt was the first MP to use BSL in the House of Commons.
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Tom Levitt chaired the Community Development Foundation from 2004 to 2010.
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Tom Levitt was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Barbara Roche MP, first in the Home Office and then in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
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Tom Levitt was a member of the Work and Pensions Committee from 2007 and assistant to the Regional Minister for the East Midlands.
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Tom Levitt is known to be in favour of the Longdendale Bypass, which would run through the north of his former constituency.
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In November 2009, Tom Levitt told the Labour Party that he would not be a candidate at the 2010 general election.
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Tom Levitt resigned his membership of the Labour Party in April 2019, describing the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn as "incompetent, hypocritical and profoundly wrong on key issues".
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Tom Levitt subsequently declared his support for and involvement in Change UK - The Independent Group.
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Tom Levitt said the claim had been submitted by accident by a member of staff and that the claim had been rejected.
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Tom Levitt has said that he believed he had been 'moderate' in his claims for accommodation in London.
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In 2010 Tom Levitt set up Sector4Focus, a consultancy which promotes relationships between the private, public and charitable sectors.
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Tom Levitt has written two books on similar subjects, Welcome to Good Co and in 2018, the Company Citizen about which former Unilever CEO Paul Polman said 'Never has the case for business to step up and help solve society's challenges been greater.
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Tom Levitt lived in Buxton from 1991 to 2011 and now lives in west London.
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Tom Levitt is the author of two plays, Making Allowances and PowerPlay.