Clayton Cosgrove

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New Zealand Parliament
The Honourable
Clayton Cosgrove
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52nd Minister of Immigration
In office
11 November 2007 –19 November 2008
YearsTermElectorateListParty
1999 –2002 46th Waimakariri none Labour
2002 –2005 47th Waimakaririnone Labour
2005 –2008 48th Waimakaririnone Labour
2008 –2011 49th Waimakariri18 Labour
2011 –2014 50th List 8 Labour
2014 –2017 51st List 8 Labour

Cosgrove himself stood for election in Moore's former Waimakariri seat in the 1999 election, and was successful. During 2002 he was selected and graduated the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders of Tomorrow programme [2] (later called Young Global Leaders). He was re-elected in the 2002, 2005 and 2008 general elections. However, he was defeated in the electorate by National's Kate Wilkinson in 2011 and was subsequently elected as list MP. Wilkinson retired at the end of the parliamentary term and was replaced as National's candidate for the 2014 election by Matt Doocey, who had previously contested the 2013 by-election in Christchurch East. [3] [4] Doocey beat Cosgrove with an increased majority. [5] Being again in eighth place on the Labour list, Cosgrove remained a list MP. [6]

Cabinet minister (2005–2008)

He was appointed Minister for Building and Construction, Minister of Statistics, Associate Minister of Finance, Associate Minister of Justice and Associate Minister of Immigration (responsible for individual immigration cases) after the 2005 election. At the October 2007 Cabinet reshuffle, he was promoted and replaced his Building and Construction and Statistics portfolio responsibilities; with the Immigration, Small Business, Sport and Recreation portfolios, and ministerial responsibility for the Rugby World Cup. He retained his roles as Associate Minister of Justice and Finance. Cosgrove lost his ministerial position when Labour was defeated in the 2008 election.[ citation needed ]

Cosgrove was selected to attend the World Economic Forum's Annual meeting in New York and Davos in 2001 and 2002, and was appointed to the Forum's task force on Free Trade. He is generally considered to be on the right of the Labour Party.[ citation needed ]

Boy racers

In August 2007 Cosgrove was targeted after raising considerable concerns about boy racers, who have caused numerous and significant problems throughout his electorate and Christchurch in general. [7] [8] Boy racers attempted to intimidate Cosgrove in a number of ways, including defacing billboards and driving past his house on Saturday nights. [9] New Zealand has considerable problems with boy racers, leading to many car seizures [10] and a new law being mooted to crush the vehicles of the worst offenders. [11]

Opposition (2008–2017)

When Lianne Dalziel confirmed that she would contest the 2013 Christchurch mayoralty, her Christchurch Earthquake Recovery portfolio was split and assigned to Cosgrove and Ruth Dyson in July 2013. [12] He considered standing in the by-election resulting from Dalziel's resignation from Parliament, but in the end decided not to put his name forward for the Labour nomination. [13]

He announced he would be retiring from politics at the 2017 general election in April 2016. [14] [15]

Post politics

After leaving parliament, Cosgrove worked as consultant and lobbyist, including for the ill-fated attempt to mine Foulden Maar for pig food [16] [17] and the Greymouth Hospital construction. [18]

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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Waimakariri
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