Chris Mole

Chris Mole
Chris Mole MP, PuSS DfT
Official portrait, 2010
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
In office
5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byJim Fitzpatrick
Succeeded byMike Penning
Assistant Government Whip
In office
6 October 2008 – 5 June 2009
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Chief WhipNick Brown
Member of Parliament
for Ipswich
In office
22 November 2001 – 12 April 2010
Preceded byJamie Cann
Succeeded byBen Gummer
Leader of Suffolk County Council
In office
May 1993 – 22 November 2001
Preceded byChristopher Penn
Succeeded byJane Hore
Suffolk County Councillor
for Ipswich Town
In office
4 May 1989 – 22 November 2001
Preceded byJ Cusack
Succeeded byKevan Lim
Suffolk County Councillor
for St. Clements
In office
2 May 1985 – 4 May 1989
Preceded byM Pluke
Succeeded byB Chaplin
Personal details
Born (1958-03-16) 16 March 1958 (age 66)
Bromley, Kent
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
SpouseShona Gibb
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Kent

Christopher David Mole (born 16 March 1958) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Ipswich from a by-election in 2001, after the death of Jamie Cann, and was re-elected in 2005. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, until his defeat in the 2010 general election by Ben Gummer of the Conservative Party.