Toby Harris
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Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey is a Labour Party politician in the House of Lords.
Educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he went on to become President of the Cambridge Union Society.
He is a former councillor and leader of the London Borough of Haringey and Chair of the Association of London Government. He was made a Life Peer in 1998. He was a Haringey councillor for over 20 years, and stood down several months after being elected to the London Assembly for Brent and Harrow in 2000. Political opponents sought him to account for his expenses for taxi fares and mobile phone calls which amounted to over £15,000. A District Auditor's investigation cleared him of any inpropriety. [1] He was the Leader of the Labour Group on the Assembly until he lost his seat at the 2004 Assembly election. He was the first chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority from 2000 to 2004. He is now the Home Secretary's representative on the Metropolitan Police Authority.
He is a senior advisor to KPMG and a number of other public and private sector organisations.
He is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Policing and is Treasurer of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee.