Alan Thomas Amos (born 10 November 1952) is a British politician who sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Hexham from 1987 to 1992.
From 1986 to 1987, he was Assistant Principal of Davies's College of Further Education on Old Gloucester Street, Queen Square, London, From 1978 to 1987 he was a Conservative Party councillor on Enfield Borough Council.
[4] Shortly before the 1992 general election, Amos was arrested, along with another man, at a well known homosexual pickup spot on Hampstead Heath.
[5][6] After failing to be readopted as a Conservative local councillor in the London Borough of Enfield, where he had previously been deputy leader of the council,[7] he joined the Labour Party in 1994, giving a self-exculpatory interview to The Spectator magazine.
[8] In the 2001 general election he fought the Hitchin and Harpenden constituency for Labour, coming second to the Conservative Peter Lilley.