Paul Clark (British politician)

Paul Gordon Clark (born 29 April 1957) is a British former Labour Party politician and who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gillingham from 1997 to 2010. During his time in government, Clark served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Derry Irvine, Charles Falconer, John Prescott, and Ed Balls, before being promoted in 2008 to the role of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport. At the 2010 general election Clark was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate Rehman Chishti in the newly formed constituency of Gillingham and Rainham.

In 2022, Clark pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing indecent images of children. In May 2023, he was sentenced to two years and four months in prison. Provided by Wikipedia