Geoffrey Robinson

Geoffrey Robinson (born May 25, 1938) is a British Member of Parliament for Coventry North West. He is a member of the Labour Party and a former Paymaster General. He resigned from that post in December 1998 after it was revealed that he had secretly lent his government colleague Peter Mandelson £373,000 to buy a house. He is the owner of the New Statesman, a left-leaning weekly political magazine.