Alan Thomas Amos (born 10 November 1952) is a British Labour politician, and former Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Hexham in Northumberland between 1987 and 1992.
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He attended the independent St Albans School. He studied PPE at St John's College, Oxford. From the Institute of Education, he gained a PGCE in 1976.
From 1976-84, he was an Economics teacher, and a sixth form Form-teacher, at Dame Alice Owen's School in Hertfordshire. From 1986-7, he was Assistant Principal of Davies's College of Further Education (now called Davies's Independent 6th Form College) on Old Gloucester Street in Queen's Square.
From 1978-87 he was a Conservative councillor on Enfield Borough Council.
In Parliament, Amos was known for his right wing views, e.g. he believed rapists and muggers should be flogged. He was elected in 1987.
He campaigned against tobacco advertising.
Shortly before the 1992 general election on Saturday 7 March 1992, he was pictured by The Sun, when aged 39, and was cautioned by police after an alleged "childish and stupid" indecency incident on Hampstead Heath and he did not fight his seat at the election.[1]
After seeking, but failing, to be readopted as a local councillor in the London Borough of Enfield, where he had been previously been Deputy Leader of the Council, he joined the Labour Party in 1994, giving an exculpatory interview to The Spectator magazine, and in the 2001 general election fought the Hitchin and Harpenden constituency for Labour, coming second to the Conservatives' Peter Lilley.[2]
He was elected for Labour to the Millwall ward of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 2002, serving as councillor for four years before losing the seat to the Conservatives in 2006. He returned to local politics in May 2008 with his election to the Warndon ward of Worcester City Council.
He is single.
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| Preceded by Geoffrey Rippon |
Member of Parliament for Hexham 1987–1992 |
Succeeded by Peter Atkinson |