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Michael Cashman (born December 17, 1950) was a British actor and is now a Labour politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency since 1999.

As an actor, he is possibly best known for his role as Colin in BBC TV's EastEnders - a character famous for being the first man to kiss another man in a soap opera in the UK: he also played Mike Wallace in The Sandbaggers. He was also in the Time-Flight story in Doctor Who.

He is open about his homosexuality and regularly comments on government policy decisions relating to sexual orientation. He had a civil partnership with Paul Cottingham, his partner of over twenty years, on 11 March 2006. He is also an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.

In the European Parliament he is Labour spokesperson on human rights and has also been rapporteur on an important initiative on funerals of those who die in third countries - an issue he was motivated to act on after the death of his own father.

It is often speculated that he might succeed Gary Titley as leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party. He has been seen as the Brownite candidate in opposition to the nominally Blairite Titley, though Cashman's record: opposition to Ken Livingstone's candidacy for Mayor of London and personal loyalty to Margaret McDonagh - suggest he is more of a traditional figure of the Labour right.

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