Editing Geoff Hoon (section)

==Member of Parliament==
Hoon was elected as a [[Member of the European Parliament]] (MEP) for Derbyshire in 1984 and served in [[Brussels]] and [[Strasbourg]] for ten years. In 1988, he drafted a report for the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs in favour of prohibiting dual membership of the European Parliament and national parliaments, subsequently approved by the Parliament and enacted as of the 2004 European elections. Ironically, Hoon himself became a dual-mandate member for two years, after being elected to the House of Commons in 1992 and only standing down from the European Parliament at the 1994 elections.<ref>Corbett, Richard; Jacobs, Francis; Neville, Darren (2016), 'The European Parliament' (9 ed.), London: John Harper Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9934549-5-0</ref>

He was elected to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] at the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992 general election]] for [[Ashfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Ashfield]], making his [[maiden speech]] on 20 May 1992, following the retirement of the sitting Labour MP, [[Frank Haynes (politician)|Frank Haynes]]. He held the seat with a majority of 12,987 and remained as the MP until the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]].<ref>[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo991111/text/91111w09.htm#91111w09.htm_sbhd2 Hansard]</ref>

Towards the end of his political career, Hoon acquired the irreverent nickname Buff (''Buffoon'')<ref name="buffoon">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/geoff-hoon-you-ask-the-questions-966947.html|title=Geoff Hoon: You Ask The Questions|date=20 October 2008|work=[[The Independent]]|publisher=[[The Independent]]|access-date=8 June 2010|location=United Kingdom}}</ref> as the result of a joke told by fellow Labour Party colleague [[Peter Kilfoyle]].<ref>{{Cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pandora/pandora-kilfoyle-i-gave-geoff-his-buff-hoon-nickname-1874219.html | location=London | work=The Independent | title=Pandora: Kilfoyle: I gave Geoff his 'Buff Hoon' nickname | first=Alice-Azania | last=Jarvis | date=21 January 2010}}</ref>