Facts: - successor: dawn primarolo incumbent - party: labour - primeminister: tony blair - office: paymaster general member of parliament for coventry north west - predecessor: michael bates maurice edelman - term end: 23 december 1998 - term start: 2 may 1997 4 march 1976 - birth date: 25 may 1938 - name: geoffrey robinson - nationality: british - majority: 6,288 -lrb- 13.5 % -rrb- - birth place: sheffield , west riding of yorkshire , england - alma mater: clare college , cambridge yale university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of geoffrey robinson .
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geoffrey robinson -lrb- born 25 may 1938 -rrb- is a british labour party politician who has been the member of parliament -lrb- mp -rrb- for coventry north west since 1976 .he was paymaster general from may 1997 to december 1998 , resigning after it was revealed that he had lent his government colleague peter mandelson # 373,000 to buy a house .from 1996 to 2008 he was the owner of the '' new statesman '' , a centre-left weekly political magazine .