    gareth richard thomas (born 15 july 1967) is a british labour co-operative politician who has been the member of parliament (mp) for harrow west since 1997 and the chair of the co-operative party since 2001. thomas held the position of minister of state at the department for international development and, following the 2010 election, joined the shadow frontbench team. ==early life== gareth attended hatch end high school on headstone lane in hatch end, then lowlands college in harrow. at the university college of wales aberystwyth he gained a bsc in economics in 1988 and later a pgce from the thames polytechnic in 1992. he gained an ma in imperial a
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