In 1990, Gordon-Banks was selected to contest Southport and was elected as the constituency's Member of Parliament (MP) 1992, gaining the seat from the Liberal Democrat Ronnie Fearn.
[2] From 2002 to 2006, he was an adviser to the Joint Security Industry Council and in 2004, he joined the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom as a Senior Research Fellow, Middle East and South Asia, a post he held until 2012.
[6][7] Gordon-Banks was suspended from the Liberal Democrats in 2016 after an antisemitic Twitter tweet: "Farron's leadership campaign was organised and funded by London Jews" and "I am glad I never had to represent a constituency with a significant Jewish community because [they] are all bloody hard work".
Marie van der Zyl, Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said, "The comments by Matthew Gordon Banks on Twitter are of very deep concern.
He must urgently clarify and apologise for his comments, otherwise, we would expect the Liberal Democrat Party to invoke disciplinary procedures "[1][8] Gordon-Banks married Jane Miller in 1992 and has a son and a daughter.