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Frank Gordon Dobson
(15 March 1940 ? 11 November 2019) was a British
Labour Party
politician. He was the
Member of Parliament
(MP) for
Holborn and St. Pancras
from
1979
to
2015
.
He worked in the
Tony Blair Cabinet
as
Secretary of State for Health
from 1997 to 1999, and was the official Labour Party candidate for
Mayor of London
in 2000, ultimately finishing third in
the election
behind
Conservative
Steven Norris
and the winner, Labour-turned-Independent
Ken Livingstone
.
Dobson retired at the
2015 general election
.
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Dobson died on 11 November 2019 at the age of 79.
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