Gareth Richard Thomas is a British Labour Co-op politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow West since 1997. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Services, Small Business and Exports from July 2024 to September 2025. Thomas also served as Minister of State for International Development and Minister of State for Trade, Investment and Consumer Affairs between 2008 and 2010. He was the Chair of the Co-operative Party from 2001 until 2019.  This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Gareth_Thomas_(English_politician), which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License