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Beaconsfield
Coordinates: 51°36′03″N 0°38′05″W / 51.600873°N 0.634682°W / 51.600873; -0.634682
Beaconsfield
i/ˈbɛkənzfiːld/ is a market town and civil parish operating as a town council within the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. It lies 23.6 miles (38 km) northwest of Charing Cross in Central London, and 17 miles (27 km) south-east of the county town of Aylesbury. Other nearby towns include Amersham to the north northeast and High Wycombe to the west.
The town sits in the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is part of the London commuter belt, thus the average cost of housing in the town is very high. It is in the South Bucks local government district, which was known as the Beaconsfield district from 1974 to 1980.
The parish comprises Beaconsfield town and land mainly given over arable land though some beech forest remains from that planted to supply the furniture industry of High Wycombe.
The first written reference to Beaconsfield dates from 1185 where it is spelt Bekenesfeld. Although this is mistakenly thought to mean "field by the beacon," actually it is derived from "clearing in the beeches" (beech trees).
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Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (
/ˈbʌkɪŋəmʃər/ or /ˈbʌkɪŋəmʃɪər/; archaically the County of Buckingham; abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe.
The area under the control of Buckinghamshire County Council, or shire county, is divided into four districts—Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe. The Borough of Milton Keynes is a unitary authority and forms part of the county for various functions such as Lord Lieutenant but does not come under county council control. The ceremonial county, the area including Milton Keynes borough, borders Greater London (to the south east), Berkshire (to the south), Oxfordshire (to the west), Northamptonshire (to the north), Bedfordshire (to the north east) and Hertfordshire (to the east).
Sections of the county closer to London are part of the Metropolitan Green Belt, which limits development. It is the location of the nationally important Pinewood Studios and Dorney Lake, which will be holding the rowing events at the 2012 Summer Olympics. It is also well known for the new town of Milton Keynes and the Chiltern Hills area of outstanding natural beauty.
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Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for supporting the Prime Minister and Cabinet of the United Kingdom. It is composed of various units that support Cabinet committees and which co-ordinate the delivery of government objectives via other departments. It currently has just over 2,000 staff, most of whom work in Whitehall. Staff working in the Prime Minister's Office are part of the Cabinet Office.
The Cabinet Office's core functions are:
Within the department the Deputy Prime Minister has special responsibility for political and constitutional reform:
He also has policy responsibility for the Electoral Commission, the Boundary Commissions and the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.
The department was formed in December 1916 from the secretariat of the Committee of Imperial Defence under Sir Maurice Hankey, the first Cabinet Secretary.
Traditionally the most important part of the Cabinet Office's role was facilitating collective decision-making by the Cabinet, through running and supporting Cabinet-level committees. This is still its principle role, but since the absorption of some of the functions of the Civil Service Department in 1981 the Cabinet Office has also helped to ensure that a wide range of Ministerial priorities are taken forward across Whitehall.
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East Kilbride
Coordinates: 55°45′52″N 4°10′38″W / 55.764529°N 4.177115°W / 55.764529; -4.177115
East Kilbride (Scottish Gaelic: Cille Bhrìghde an Ear) is a large suburban town in the South Lanarkshire council area, in the West Central Lowlands of Scotland. Designated as Scotland's first new town in 1947, it forms part of the Greater Glasgow conurbation. The area lies on high ground on the south side of the Cathkin Braes, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Glasgow city centre and close to the boundary with East Renfrewshire.
The town is enclosed by the White Cart River to the west and the Rotten Calder to the east, the latter flowing northwards to join the River Clyde near Cambuslang. This area was previously the site of the small and historic village of East Kilbride, prior to its post-war development. The modern settlement serves both as a dormitory town for the city of Glasgow and maintains its own commercial centre.
The earliest evidence of habitation in the area dates back to ancient graves found near the Kype Water to the south of the district. Roman coins and footwear have also been found in the area.
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European Commission
The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union.
The Commission operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "commissioners" ). There is one member per member state, though members are bound to represent the interests of the EU as a whole rather than their home state. One of the 27 is the Commission President (currently José Manuel Durão Barroso) proposed by the European Council and elected by the European Parliament. The Council then appoints the other 26 members of the Commission in agreement with the nominated President, and then the 27 members as a single body are subject to a vote of approval by the European Parliament. The first Barroso Commission took office in late 2004 and its successor, under the same President, took office in 2010.
The term "Commission" is used either in the narrow sense of the 27-member College of Commissioners (or College) or to also include the administrative body of about 23,000 European civil servants who are split into departments called Directorates-General and Services. The internal working languages of the Commission are English, French and German. The Members of the Commission and their "cabinets" (immediate teams) are based in the Berlaymont building of Brussels.
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Iran
Coordinates: 32°N 53°E / 32°N 53°E / 32; 53
Iran (i/ɪˈrɑːn/ or /aɪˈræn/;Persian: ایران [ʔiˈɾɒn] (
listen)), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ایران Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān), is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran", which in Persian means "Land of the Aryans", has been in use natively since the Sassanian era. It came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia ( /ˈpɜrʒə/ or /ˈpɜrʃə/). Both "Persia" and "Iran" are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, "Iran" is the name used officially in political contexts.
The 18th-largest country in the world in terms of area at 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), Iran has a population of around 79 million. It is a country of particular geopolitical significance owing to its location in the Middle East and central Eurasia. Iran is bordered on the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. As Iran is a littoral state of the Caspian Sea, which is an inland sea, Kazakhstan and Russia are also Iran's direct neighbors to the north. Iran is bordered on the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by Iraq and on the northwest by Turkey. Tehran is the capital, the country's largest city and the political, cultural, commercial and industrial center of the nation. Iran is a regional power, and holds an important position in international energy security and world economy as a result of its large reserves of petroleum and natural gas. Iran has the second largest proven natural gas reserves in the world and the fourth largest proven petroleum reserves.
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Israel
Coordinates: 31°N 35°E / 31°N 35°E / 31; 35
Israel, officially the State of Israel ( /ˈɪzriːəl/ or /ˈɪzreɪəl/; Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, Medīnat Yisrā'el, IPA: [me̞diˈnät jisʁäˈʔe̞l] ( listen); Arabic: دَوْلَة إِسْرَائِيل, Dawlat Isrāʼīl, IPA: [dawlat ʔisraːˈʔiːl]), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea to the south, and it contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is defined as a Jewish and Democratic State in its Basic Laws and is the world's only Jewish-majority state.
Following the adoption of a resolution by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption and implementation of the United Nations plan to partition Palestine, on 14 May 1948 David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel, a state independent from the British Mandate for Palestine. Neighboring Arab states invaded the next day in support of the Palestinian Arabs. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states, in the course of which it has occupied the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Portions of these territories, including east Jerusalem, have been annexed by Israel, but the border with the neighboring West Bank has not yet been permanently defined.[neutrality is disputed] Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, but efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have so far not resulted in peace.
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NATO
Coordinates: 50°52′34.16″N 4°25′19.24″E / 50.8761556°N 4.4220111°E / 50.8761556; 4.4220111
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO ( /ˈneɪtoʊ/ NAY-toh; French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN)), also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, one of the 28 member states across North America and Europe, the newest of which, Albania and Croatia, joined in April 2009. An additional 22 countries participate in NATO's Partnership for Peace, with 15 other countries involved in institutionalized dialogue programs. The combined military spending of all NATO members constitutes over 70% of the world's defence spending.
For its first few years, NATO was not much more than a political association. However, the Korean War galvanized the member states, and an integrated military structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders. The course of the Cold War led to a rivalry with nations of the Warsaw Pact, which formed in 1955. The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, stated in 1949 that the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defence against a prospective Soviet invasion—doubts that led to the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of the French from NATO's military structure in 1966.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (i/ʃriː ˈlɑːŋkə/, /sriːˈlɑːŋkə/, or /sriːˈlæŋkə/;Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාව, Tamil: இலங்கை), is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia. Known until 1972 as Ceylon ( /sɨˈlɒn/, /seɪˈlɒn/, or /siːˈlɒn/), Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar, the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the Maldives.
As a result of its location in the path of major sea routes, Sri Lanka is a strategic naval link between West Asia and South East Asia. It was an important stop on the ancient Silk Road. Sri Lanka has also been a center of the Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times, being the nation where the Buddhist teachings were first written down as well as the oldest continually Buddhist country. Sri Lanka boasts a diverse range of cultures, languages and religions. The Sinhalese people form the majority of the population; Tamils, who are concentrated in the north and east of the island, form the largest ethnic minority. Other communities include Moors, Burghers, Kaffirs, Malays and the aboriginal Vedda people.
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Turkey
Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (help·info)), is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia (mostly in the Anatolian peninsula) and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea is to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between East Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. The vast majority of the population are Muslims. The country's official language is Turkish, whereas Kurdish and Zazaki languages are spoken by Kurds and Zazas, who constitute 18% of the population.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.
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Adam Werritty
Adam Werritty is a Scottish businessman. Werritty is a close friend of the former UK Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox: he resided for a period in 2002 and 2003 at Fox's London apartment and was best man at his wedding in 2005. The two were also business associates who once held joint investments in the healthcare consultancy firm UK Health. Werritty was reportedly an adviser of Fox's and is known to have accompanied him on at least 18 foreign business trips between 2009 and 2011 including visits to Sri Lanka and Dubai in 2011, and Israel in 2009; in 2007, when Fox was shadow Defence Secretary, they both attended a meeting with the Gulf Research Centre. Werritty was also appointed by Fox as the chief executive of the now disbanded conservative Atlanticist think-tank, "The Atlantic Bridge".
Werritty made visits to Fox at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Main Building in Whitehall on 22 occasions in 16 months; Werrity was not security-cleared with the MoD. Additionally, over a 17-month period, ending October 2011, Werritty was present at 40 of Fox's 70 recorded engagements. The uncertain nature of Werritty's relationship with Fox led to an investigation by senior civil servants, initially the MoD's Permanent Secretary, Ursula Brennan and latterly the Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell. Fox claimed that Werrity had never worked for him either in an official or unofficial capacity despite allegations that he was using a source of advice outside the Civil Service, paid for by private funds. Disclosure of increasing amounts of detail of their contact, funding and explanations of their relationship led to Fox's resignation on 14 October 2011 in advance of O'Donnell's report of his investigation.
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Alan Duncan
Alan James Carter Duncan (born 31 March 1957) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutland and Melton, and a Minister of State in the Department for International Development.
Duncan began his career in the oil industry with Royal Dutch Shell, and was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1992 general election. After several minor positions in the government of John Major, he played a key role in William Hague's successful bid for the Conservative leadership in 1997. He received several promotions to the Conservative front bench until he eventually joined the Shadow Cabinet after the 2005 general election and stood for the Conservative leadership in 2005 but withdrew early on because of a lack of support. Eventual winner David Cameron appointed him Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in December 2005, the title of which was changed to Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform in July 2007, now the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
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Alistair Carmichael
Alexander Morrison "Alistair" Carmichael (born 15 July 1965) is a Liberal Democrat politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish seat of Orkney and Shetland since the 2001 general election.
He was born on Islay, and attended Port Ellen Primary School and Islay High School. He worked between 1984-89 as an hotel manager, before beginning study at the University of Glasgow. There, he was a member of the Students' Representative Council and President of the Liberal Club, however he left his course early. He later returned to education at the University of Aberdeen, where he gained an LLB in 1992, qualifying as a solicitor in 1993. From 1993-96, he was a Procurator Fiscal Depute for Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and from 1996-2001 was a solicitor with Aberdeen and Macduff.
Carmichael was elected to represent Orkney and Shetland in the 2001 general election, the constituency previously held by Jim Wallace and Jo Grimond. He was appointed Liberal Democrat Northern Ireland and Scotland Spokesman by Sir Menzies Campbell in July 2007, but resigned in March 2008 in order to vote in favour of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. He was reappointed to the position by Nick Clegg in October 2008. He had also briefly served as the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman, following the resignation of Mark Oaten.
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Andrew Lansley
Andrew David Lansley, CBE, MP (born 11 December 1956) is a British politician who has been the Secretary of State for Health since 2010, the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire since the 1997 general election, and was the Shadow Secretary of State for Health from June 2004 until becoming Secretary of State for Health in May 2010. Lansley's Health and Social Care Act 2012 is one of the most controversial plans of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, resulting in strong opposition from both the Royal College of Nursing and British Medical Association.
Born in Hornchurch, Essex, Lansley was educated at Brentwood School and the University of Exeter, gaining a BA in politics. During his time at Exeter University, Lansley was elected as President of the Guild of Students (Student Union), as a Broad Left candidate. His father, Thomas, worked in a pathology laboratory and was co-founder of the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine and chair of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Scientists.
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Andrew Mitchell
The Right Honourable Andrew John Bower Mitchell MP (born 23 March 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield. He was appointed as Secretary of State for International Development on 12 May 2010, and as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.
A former UN peacekeeper, he has extensive pre-government experience of the developing world, and is the founder of Project Umubano, a Conservative Party social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone in central and west Africa, launched in 2007.
A former President of the Cambridge Union and Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party, he became Secretary of State for International Development in 2010. Both in Opposition and Government, he has repeatedly asserted the need for full transparency and value for money in British aid contributions to the developing world, with resources concentrated on the world's poorest and most troubled countries. Those judged now able to support their own citizens, such as Russia, China, Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia, will no longer be eligible to receive aid. He has made the commitment to reach the UN target to spend 0.7 per cent of UK GNI on aid to the developing world by 2013.
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Aneurin Bevan
Aneurin "Nye" Bevan (pronounced /əˈnaɪrɪn/; Welsh: [aˈnəɨ.rin]; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959 until his death in 1960. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice and the rights of working people. He was a long-time Member of Parliament (MP), representing Ebbw Vale for 31 years, and became recognised as one of the leaders of the party’s left wing, and of left-wing British thought generally. His most famous accomplishment came when, as Minister of Health in the post-war Attlee government, he spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service, which provides medical care free at point-of-need to all Britons.
Bevan was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, in the South Wales Valleys and on the northern edge of the South Wales coalfield, the son of miner David Bevan and Phoebe née Prothero, a seamstress. Both Bevan's parents were Nonconformists; his father was a Baptist and his mother a Methodist. One of ten children, Bevan did poorly at school and his academic performance was so bad that his headmaster made him repeat a year. At age 13, Bevan left school and began working in the local Tytryst Colliery. David Bevan had been a supporter of the Liberal Party in his youth, but was converted to socialism by the writings of Robert Blatchford in the Clarion and joined the Independent Labour Party.
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Ann Widdecombe
Ann Noreen Widdecombe (born 4 October 1947) is a former British Conservative Party politician and has been a novelist since 2000. She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010. She was a social conservative and a member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. She retired from politics at the 2010 general election. Since 2002 she has also made numerous television and radio appearances, including as a television presenter. She is a convert from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism.
When an MP Widdecombe was known for her strong socially conservative views, opposing the legality of abortion and supporting the re-introduction of the death penalty.
Born in Bath, Somerset, Widdecombe is the daughter of a Ministry of Defence civil servant James Murray Widdecombe and Rita N Plummer. She attended the Royal Navy School in Singapore, and a convent school in Bath. She then read Latin at Birmingham University and later attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). She worked for Unilever (1973–75) and then as an administrator at the University of London (1975–87) before entering Parliament.
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Bill Wiggin
William David Wiggin (born 4 June 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament and a former Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries. He held the seat of Leominster from the 2001 election until the 2010 election, when the seat of Leominster was abolished. Wiggin now holds the seat of North Herefordshire having been elected in 2010.
Wiggin was born in London in 1966. He attended Eton and later read Economics at the Bangor University, gaining a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 1988.[dead link] He also served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers in the TA, being a platoon commander for Holyhead, Bangor and Caernarfon.
Following this, Wiggin worked as a Trader in Foreign Exchange Options for UBS from 1991–3, then was an Associate Director of Kleinwort Benson from 1994–8, then as a manager in the Foreign Exchange department of Commerzbank from 1998.
Wiggin was selected as the Conservative candidate for Burnley for the 1997 election. He came second to Peter Pike, who recorded a 17,062 majority over him. Returning to his roots, he was selected as the Conservative Party candidate in the safe seat of Leominster in April 1999, replacing Peter Temple-Morris, who had defected to the Labour Party. He won his seat in 2001 with a 10,367 majority over his Liberal Democrat opponent.
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Bob Ainsworth
Robert William Ainsworth (born 19 June 1952) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North East since 1992, and was the Secretary of State for Defence from 2009 to 2010. Following the general election in 2010 he was the Shadow Defence Secretary, but was replaced by Jim Murphy following the election of new Labour leader Ed Miliband.
Ainsworth was born in Coventry and attended the local Foxford Comprehensive School. He first became active in politics as a trade unionist at the Jaguar Cars plant in Coventry where he worked and served in many union capacities, including as Branch President (in what was later to become part of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union). At this time he attended "a couple" of International Marxist Group meetings but did not pursue an interest in the group. In 1984, he was elected to Coventry City Council, became Chair of the Finance Committee, and was deputy leader of the ruling Labour group. He was also Constituency Labour Party Chairman.
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Caroline Spelman
Caroline Alice Spelman (née Cormack; born 4 May 1958) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden in the West Midlands since 1997. In May 2010 she became Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in David Cameron's coalition cabinet, and was sworn as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.
Born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, Spelman attended Herts and Essex High School for Girls (now called The Hertfordshire and Essex High School), in Warwick Road, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and received a BA First Class in European Studies from Queen Mary College, University of London.
She was Sugar Beet commodity secretary for the National Farmer's Union from 1981 to 1984. She was deputy director of the International Confederation of European Beet Growers (officially known as La Confédération Internationale des Betteraviers Européens – CIBE) in Paris from 1984–9, then a research fellow for the Centre for European Agricultural Studies (part of the University of Kent and since 2000 known as the Centre for European Agri-Environmental Economics) from 1989 to 1993. She co-owns Spelman, Cormack & Associates, a lobbying firm for the food and biotechnology industry, with her husband. Based in Dorridge (her constituency is in the Borough of Solihull).
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Cheryl Gillan
Rt Hon Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan MP (born 21 April 1952 in Cardiff, Wales) is a British Conservative Party politician. She is currently the Secretary of State for Wales, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Chesham and Amersham in Buckinghamshire.
Prior to her parliamentary career, Gillan worked as a marketing executive for several companies. She was first elected to the House of Commons in 1992 and was a junior minister for education and employment from 1995-97. After 1997 she served as a Conservative whip and as a spokesperson for trade and industry, foreign affairs, and home affairs. She was the Shadow Welsh Secretary from 2005–10, assuming the cabinet position of Secretary of State for Wales after the 2010 general election.
She was appointed as a Privy Councillor on 13 May 2010.
Cheryl Gillan was born in Llandaff, a district of Cardiff, in 1952. Her father was a former British Army officer and a director of a steel company whilst her mother was a Wren. She was brought up in South Wales and her family farms near Usk. She was educated at Elm Tree House and Norfolk House primary schools in Cardiff before her family left Wales when she was aged 11. Gillan attended the independent Cheltenham Ladies' College, the College of Law and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
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Chloe Smith
Chloe Rebecca Smith (born 17 May 1982) is a British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Norwich North. She was elected to the seat in a by-election on 23 July 2009 following the resignation of Labour MP Ian Gibson after the MPs' expenses scandal.
Born in Ashford, Kent, she was aged 3 when her family moved to Norfolk. Growing up in Stoke Ferry, Smith attended comprehensive schools in Swaffham and Methwold, and after a gap-year working for former Conservative Education Secretary Gillian Shephard, went up to the University of York where she read English literature. She undertook summer work for Bernard Jenkin.
After York University she joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, where she advised private businesses, government departments and public bodies.
In 2007 Smith was chosen to be the Conservative candidate for the constituency of Norwich North in the General Election. She then took leave from her job, working for Conservative Central Office on secondment, bringing her business skills to help the Party "draw up detailed plans to put our policies into practice."
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Chris Huhne
Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne, commonly known as Chris Huhne (English spelling pronunciation /ˈhjuːn/, born 2 July 1954) is a British politician and former cabinet minister, who is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for the Eastleigh constituency in Hampshire. He was appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the coalition government following the 2010 general election. In February 2012 he became the first Cabinet minister in history to be forced from office by a criminal prosecution when he was charged with perverting the course of justice over a 2003 speeding case. Huhne has twice stood unsuccessfully for election as leader of the Liberal Democrats. In the 2006 election he came second to Sir Menzies Campbell and in the 2007 election he narrowly lost to Nick Clegg.
Huhne was born in an affluent section of West London to businessman Peter Paul-Huhne and actress Ann Murray, who had been the voice of the speaking clock. He was educated at the fee-paying Westminster School. His family name was Paul-Huhne and he was known all through his school years as Christopher Paul-Huhne. At Oxford, he simplified his name to "Chris Huhne".
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Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was also the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister, under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before leading the Labour Party to a landslide election victory over Churchill's Conservative Party in 1945. He was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term, and the first to command a Labour majority in Parliament.
The government he led put in place the post-war settlement, based upon the assumption that full employment would be maintained by Keynesian policies, and that a greatly enlarged system of social services would be created – aspirations that had been outlined in the wartime Beveridge Report. Within this context, his government undertook the nationalisation of major industries and public utilities as well as the creation of the National Health Service. After initial Conservative opposition to Keynesian fiscal policy, this settlement was broadly accepted by all parties until Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979.
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Danny Alexander
Daniel Grian Alexander (born 15 May 1972) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been Chief Secretary to the Treasury since 2010. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey constituency since 2005.
In his first parliamentary term (2005-2010), Alexander was the Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions, the chief of staff to party leader, Nick Clegg, and Chair of the Liberal Democrat Manifesto Group (2007–2010).
With the 2010 UK general election producing a hung parliament, he played a key role in the four-man Liberal Democrat negotiating team and in the drawing up of the coalition document for the new Coalition Government with the Conservative Party. Alexander was initially appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, but at the end of May 2010, he was promoted to Chief Secretary to the Treasury, following the resignation of David Laws.
Born in Edinburgh, Alexander lived on the island of Colonsay as a boy before his family moved to Glengarry. He was educated at Lochaber High School, Fort William in the Scottish Highlands, before reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at St Anne's College, Oxford.
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David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron (pronunciation: /ˈkæmərən/; born 9 October 1966) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. He represents Witney as its Member of Parliament (MP).
Cameron studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years.
He was defeated in his first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997, but was elected in 2001 as the Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. He was promoted to the Opposition front bench two years later, and rose rapidly to become head of policy co-ordination during the 2005 general election campaign. With a public image of a youthful, moderate candidate who would appeal to young voters, he won the Conservative leadership election in 2005.
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David Miliband
David Wright Miliband (born 15 July 1965) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields since 2001, and was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010. He is the elder son of the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband. He and his brother, current Labour Leader Ed Miliband, were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Edward, Lord Stanley, and Oliver Stanley in 1938.
Born in London, Miliband studied at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he started his career at the Institute for Public Policy Research. At 29, Miliband became Tony Blair's Head of Policy whilst the Labour Party was in opposition and was a major contributor to Labour's manifesto for the 1997 general election which brought the party to power. Blair made him head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1997 to 2001, following which Miliband was elected to parliament for the North East England seat of South Shields.
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David Willetts
David Linsay Willetts (born 9 March 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Minister of State for Universities and Science. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Havant in Hampshire.
Willetts was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Willets graduated with a first class degree.
Having served as Nigel Lawson's private researcher,[citation needed] Willetts took charge of the Treasury monetary policy division at 26 before moving over to Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit at 28. Aged 31, he subsequently took over the Centre for Policy Studies.
Aged 36, Willetts entered Parliament in 1992 as the MP for Havant. He quickly established himself in Parliament, becoming a Whip, a Cabinet Office Minister, and then Paymaster General in his first term (when that role was split between the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury as a policy co-ordination role). During this period Willetts' gained "Two Brains" as a nickname, a monicker reportedly coined by The Guardian's former political editor Michael White. However, Willetts was forced to resign from the latter post by the Standards and Privileges Committee over an investigation into Neil Hamilton in 1996, when it found that he had "dissembled" in his evidence to the Committee over whether pressure was put onto an earlier investigation into Hamilton.
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Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC, MC (born 30 August 1917) is a retired British Labour politician, who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.
Healey was born in Mottingham, London, but moved with his family to Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire when he was five. His middle name is in honour of Winston Churchill.
Healey was one of three siblings. His father was an engineer who worked his way up from humble origins studying at night school. His paternal grandfather was a tailor from Enniskillen in Ireland. Healey was educated at Bradford Grammar School. In 1936 he won an exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford, to read Greats where he was involved in Labour politics, although he was not active in the Oxford Union Society. At Oxford Healey joined the Communist Party in 1937 during the Great Terror but left in 1940 after the fall of France. Also at Oxford, Healey met future Conservative Prime Minister Teddy Heath (as he was then known), whom he succeeded as president of Balliol College Junior Common Room and who was to be a life-long friend and political rival. Healey achieved a double first for his degree, awarded in 1940.
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Des Browne
Desmond Henry Browne, Baron Browne of Ladyton (born 22 March 1952) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock and Loudoun from 1997 to 2010. He was a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, until the latter moved him from both Defence and Scottish Secretary in 2008.
Browne was born in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, lived in Stevenston for the early part of his life, and was educated at the Catholic St Michael's Academy in Kilwinning and later at the University of Glasgow, where he received a degree in law.
He started his legal career in 1974 as an apprentice solicitor with the firm James Campbell & Co. On qualifying in 1976 he became an assistant solicitor with Ross, Harper and Murphy, and was promoted to partner in 1980. He became a partner in McCluskey Browne in 1985 and a council member of the Law Society of Scotland 1988-1992. He was admitted as an advocate in 1993, practising at the Scottish bar until 1997. He worked mainly in child law.
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Douglas Alexander
Douglas Garven Alexander (born 26 October 1967) is a British Labour Party politician, who is currently the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the shadow cabinet of Ed Miliband. He has held cabinet posts under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, including Secretary of State for Scotland (2006–07) and Secretary of State for International Development (2007–10). He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Paisley & Renfrewshire South constituency, having first been elected to parliament in 1997.
Born in Glasgow, Alexander was first elected to parliament as the Labour Party candidate in the Paisley South by-election in 1997. In 2003, he became a junior minister and held several non-cabinet positions including Minister for Europe (2005–06). For the 2005 General Election, Alexander's Paisley South constituency was abolished, and he was elected in its successor seat, Paisley & Renfrewshire South, which takes in most of Paisley town centre and southern areas of the town, as well as the towns of Glenburn, Howwood, Johnstone, Kilbarchan and Lochwinnoch. From 2006-07, he held the two cabinet posts of Secretary of State for Scotland and Secretary of State for Transport. Following Tony Blair's resignation in June 2007, Alexander became the Secretary of State for International Development, a post he held throughout Brown's premiership.
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Duncan Sandys
Duncan Edwin Sandys, Baron Duncan-SandysCH PC (24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987) was a British politician and a minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was for some years the son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill.
Sandys was the son of George John Sandys, a Conservative member of parliament (1910–1918) and was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford. He entered the diplomatic service in 1930, serving at the Foreign Office in London as well as at the embassy in Berlin.
He became Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwood in South London in a by-election in March 1935. In the same year, he married Diana Churchill, daughter of the future prime minister (after being opposed at Norwood by a candidate put up by Randolph Churchill).
In May 1935 he was in effect saying that Germany should have a predominant place in central Europe, so as to avoid clashing with Britain as an Imperial Power.
In 1938 Sandys asked questions in the House of Commons on matters of national security. He was subsequently approached by two unidentified men, presumably representing the secret services, and threatened with prosecution under section 6 of the Official Secrets Act 1920. Sandys reported the matter to the Committee of Privileges who held that the disclosures of Parliament were not subject to the legislation though an MP could be disciplined by the House. The Official Secrets Act 1939 was enacted in reaction to this incident.
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Edward Davey
Edward Jonathan "Ed" Davey MP FRSA (born 25 December 1965) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston and Surbiton since 1997, and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change since 2012. He was previously the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills with responsibility for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs.
The son of a solicitor father and teacher mother, Edward Davey was born in Annesley Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. His father John died when Davey was four years old, and his mother Nina (née Stanbrook) eleven years later, following which he was brought up by his mother's parents. After attending senior school at the independent Nottingham High School (in common with MPs Kenneth Clarke, Geoff Hoon and Ed Balls) in the year above Ed Balls, where he was head boy in 1984, he furthered his education at Jesus College, Oxford where he was awarded a first class BA degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1988. Whilst at Oxford, he was also elected to the JCR presidency of Jesus College.
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Eric Pickles
Eric Jack Pickles (born 20 April 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician. Pickles was appointed Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government of the coalition government headed by Prime Minister David Cameron on 12 May 2010.
He was the Chairman of the Conservative Party until being replaced by Baroness Warsi in May 2010 and has been Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar in Essex since 1992. He was Co-Chairman of the Joint Committee Against Racism between 1982 and 1987.
Pickles is a member of the controversial Peniel Pentecostal Church, a local "happy clappy" church located in Pilgrims Hatch, Brentwood, Essex.
Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, he went to Greenhead Grammar School (which became Greenhead High School and is now University Academy Keighley) on Greenhead Road in Utley, north Keighley, then attended Leeds Polytechnic. He was born into a Labour supporting family – his great grandfather was one of the founders of the Independent Labour Party, and described himself as "massively inclined" towards communism as a boy – but he joined the Conservative Party in 1968 after the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia.
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Francis Maude
Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude (born 4 July 1953) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he currently serves as the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, and as a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Horsham. He is the son of the former Conservative Cabinet minister Angus Maude.
Maude was educated at the private fee-paying Abingdon School, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and at the College of Law. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1977, and practised criminal law.
Maude served a councillor for the City of Westminster from 1978 to 1984.
Maude was first elected to the House of Commons to represent the constituency of North Warwickshire in the Conservative Party's landslide victory at the 1983 general election. In 1984, he became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Employment Peter Morrison. Maude then became an assistant government whip (1985–87) and Minister for Corporate and Consumer Affairs (1987–89). In 1989, he became the Minister for Europe in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Fred Mulley
Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley PC (3 July 1918 – 15 March 1995) was a British Labour politician, barrister-at-law, and economist.
Mulley attended Warwick School between 1929 and 1936. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment in the Second World War, reaching the rank of sergeant, but was captured in 1940 and spent five years as a prisoner of war in Germany. During this time he obtained a BSc in economics and became a chartered secretary.
At the end of the war, he received an adult scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, and after a brief spell on an economics fellowship at the University of Cambridge (1948–50) he trained as a barrister, being called to the Bar in 1954.
Mulley had joined the Labour Party since 1936 and in 1945 he unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Sutton Coldfield. He became Member of Parliament for Sheffield Park in 1950, a position he held until retiring at the 1983 General Election.
During a long career in politics he held many ministerial positions including Minister of Aviation (1965-7), Minister for Disarmament (1967-9), and Minister of Transport (1969–70, 1974-5). While at the Transport Ministry he believed it would be inappropriate to be seen to be a car driver. Although he owned an Austin Maxi, his wife was the sole user of it during this period.
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Frederick Forsyth
Frederick Forsyth, CBE (born 25 August 1938) is an English author and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan and The Cobra.
The son of a furrier, Forsyth was born in Ashford, Kent. He was educated at Tonbridge School and later attended the University of Granada in Spain. Becoming a journalist, he joined Reuters in 1961 and later the BBC in 1965, where he served as an assistant diplomatic correspondent. From July to September 1967, he served as a correspondent covering the Nigerian Civil War between the region of Biafra and Nigeria. He left the BBC in 1968. Returning to Biafra as a freelance reporter, Forsyth wrote his first book, The Biafra Story, in 1969.
Forsyth decided to write a novel using similar research techniques to those used in journalism. His first full length novel, The Day of the Jackal, was published in 1971 and became an international bestseller and gained its author the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. In this book, the Organisation Armée Secrète (a real-life terrorist group) hires an assassin to kill then-French President Charles de Gaulle. It was made into a film of the same name.
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Geoff Hoon
Geoffrey "Geoff" William Hoon (born 6 December 1953) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashfield from 1992 to 2010. He is a former Defence Secretary, Transport Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons and Labour Party Chief Whip.
Hoon was born in Derby, England, and is the son of Ernest Hoon and June Collett.
Hoon was educated at the independent Nottingham High School before going on to Cambridge University, where he read law at Jesus College and graduated in 1974.
Hoon was a law lecturer at the University of Leeds from 1976–82, and was a warden at the all-male Devonshire Hall. He was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1978, and was also a visiting law professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, from 1980-81. In 1982, Hoon became a practising barrister for two years in Nottingham.
Hoon was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for Derbyshire in 1984 and served in Brussels and Strasbourg for ten years. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general election for Ashfield, making his maiden speech on 20 May 1992, following the retirement of the sitting Labour MP, Frank Haynes. He held the seat with a majority of 12,987 and remained the constituency's MP until the 2010 general election. He also attended the Bilderberg Conference in Scotland in 1998. Hoon has acquired the irreverent nickname Buff, (Buffoon). Although it was originally rumored to have been the invention of a member of the Conservative Party, fellow Labour Party colleague Peter Kilfoyle recently took responsibility.
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Geoffrey Rippon
(Aubrey) Geoffrey Frederick Rippon, Baron Rippon of Hexham, PC, (28 May 1924 – 28 January 1997) was a British Conservative politician. He was Chairman of the European-Atlantic Group.
The son of the Somerset cricketer Sydney Rippon, Geoffrey Rippon was educated at King's College, Taunton, and Brasenose College, Oxford where he was president of the University Conservative Association. He was called to the Bar in 1948 and was Mayor of Surbiton 1951-52 and a member of the London County Council from 1952. After unsuccessfully contesting the seat of Shoreditch and Finsbury in both 1950 and 1951, he became MP for Norwich South in 1955. In 1964 he was defeated, but moved to the constituency of Hexham in Northumberland at the 1966 general election and remained MP there until retiring in 1987. Among his posts in the Shadow Cabinet was that of Shadow Defence Secretary from 1969 to 1970.
In 1970 he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under Edward Heath, and being in favour of the Common Market was given the responsibility of negotiating Britain's entry into it. In 1972 he moved to become Secretary of State for the Environment. During his tenure the Department of the Environment was housed on Marsham Street in tower blocks of appalling ugliness, nicknamed 'the three ugly sisters'. Rippon is supposed to have commented to his civil servants that the view from the top floor was the best in London, as one could not see the towers themselves.
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George Osborne
George Gideon Oliver Osborne,MP (born 23 May 1971 in Paddington, London) is a British Conservative politician. He is the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, a role to which he was appointed in May 2010, and has been the Member of Parliament for Tatton since 2001.
Osborne is part of the old Anglo-Irish aristocracy, known in Ireland as the Ascendancy. He is the heir to the Osborne baronetcy (of Ballentaylor, in County Tipperary, and Ballylemon, in County Waterford).
He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalen College, University of Oxford, before entering politics.
Osborne is the eldest of four sons. His father, Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet, co-founded the firm of fabric and wallpapers designers Osborne & Little. His mother is Felicity Alexandra Loxton-Peacock, the daughter of artist Lady Clarisse Loxton Peacock.
Originally named Gideon Oliver, he changed his name to George when he was 13. In an interview in July 2005, Osborne said: "It was my small act of rebellion. I never liked it. When I finally told my mother she said, 'Nor do I'. So I decided to be George after my grandfather, who was a war hero. Life was easier as a George; it was a straightforward name."
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Gerald Kaufman
Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (born 21 June 1930) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1970, first for Manchester Ardwick, and then subsequently for Manchester Gorton. He was a government minister during the 1970s, and a member of the Shadow Cabinet in the 1980s.
Born in Leeds to Jewish parents, who came from Poland before the First World War,the son of Louis and Jane Kaufman, he was the youngest of six children. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School, and graduated in philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford (Queen's College) where he was Secretary of the University Labour Club. He was assistant general secretary of the Fabian Society from (1954–55), a leader writer on the Daily Mirror (1955–64) and a journalist on the New Statesman (1964–65). He was Parliamentary Press Liaison Officer for the Labour Party (1965–70), and eventually, a member of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's informal "kitchen cabinet".
In the 1955 general election Kaufman had unsuccessfully contested the safe Conservative seat of Bromley, and in the 1959 general election, Gillingham.
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Greg Hands
Gregory William "Greg" Hands, MP (born 14 November 1965) is a Conservative Party politician. He is currently the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelsea and Fulham having been elected during the 2010 general election for the newly-created constituency formed with the splitting of the former constituencies of Kensington and Chelsea as well as Hammersmith and Fulham.
Previously, Hands had represented the constituency from 2005–2010, during which time it was the Hammersmith and Fulham constituency.
Greg Hands was born in New York City, the United States, and was educated widely before leaving Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham in 1984, where he held the post of chairman of the Dr. Challoner's Debating Society. He then went on to attend Robinson College, Cambridge where he was awarded a first in modern history in 1989. He also joined the party as a student, served as the chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and was on the executive committee of the Cambridge University Students' Union. During his gap year he worked in a swimming pool in Berlin, and first became interested in the Eastern Bloc, and visited Prague, and other Eastern European cities in future holidays. He worked on trading floors in the City of London and New York City until 1997. He has dual American/British nationality and voted for the defeated McCain/Palin ticket in the 2008 Presidential election.
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Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.
Nicknamed 'Supermac' and known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability, Macmillan achieved notoriety before the Second World War as a Tory radical and critic of appeasement. Rising to high office as a protégé of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, he believed in the post-war settlement and the necessity of a mixed economy, and in his premiership pursued corporatist policies to develop the domestic market as the engine of growth. During his time as prime minister, average living standards steadily rose while numerous social reforms were carried out such as the 1956 Clean Air Act, the 1957 Housing Act, the 1960 Offices Act, the 1960 Noise Abatement Act, the Factories Act 1961, and the introduction of a graduated pension scheme to provide an additional income to retirees.
As a One Nation Tory of the Disraelian tradition, haunted by memories of the Great Depression, he championed a Keynesian strategy of public investment to maintain demand, winning a second term in 1959 with an increased majority on an electioneering budget. Benefiting from favourable international conditions, he presided over an age of affluence, marked by low unemployment and high if uneven growth. In his Bedford speech of July 1957 he told the nation they had 'never had it so good', but warned of the dangers of inflation, summing up the fragile prosperity of the 1950s.
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Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British Labour politician and Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the February 1974 general election resulted in a hung parliament. He is the most recent British Prime Minister to have served non-consecutive terms.
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Iain Duncan Smith
George Iain Duncan Smith (born 9 April 1954; often referred to by his initials "IDS") is a British Conservative politician. He is currently the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and was previously leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 to October 2003. He was first elected to parliament at the 1992 General Election as the MP for Chingford and has represented its successor constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green since the 1997 General Election.
Duncan Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and served in the Scots Guards from 1975 to 1981, with service in Northern Ireland and Rhodesia. He joined the Conservative Party in 1981, and was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1992. When William Hague resigned as Conservative Party leader in 2001, Duncan Smith won the subsequent leadership election, bolstered by the support of Margaret Thatcher and his Eurosceptic ideology. Duncan Smith was the first Roman Catholic to serve as Conservative Party leader, and the first born in Scotland since Arthur Balfour.
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James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005), was a British Labour politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Commonly known as Jim Callaghan (and nicknamed "Sunny Jim", "Gentleman Jim", "Lucky Jim" or "Big Jim"), Callaghan is the only person to have served in all four of the Great Offices of State: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary.
Callaghan was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967 during a turbulent period in the British economy in which he had to wrestle with a balance of payments deficit and speculative attacks on the pound sterling. In November 1967, the Government was forced to devalue the pound sterling despite having already denied this would be done, both publicly and to the House of Commons. Callaghan offered to resign, but was persuaded to swap his ministerial post with Roy Jenkins, becoming Home Secretary from 1967 to 1970. In that capacity, Callaghan took the decision to use the Army to support the police in Northern Ireland, after a request from the Northern Ireland Government.
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Jenny Willott
Jennifer Nancy Willott (b. 29 May 1974, Wimbledon, London) is a British politician and the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central since the 2005 general election and a junior whip since February 2012. She is the first woman and the first Liberal Democrat to represent her seat.
Willott has a history of work with charitable organisations such as OXFAM and a women's organisation in North India. She supports the movement of trade justice and has interests in human rights. She was a councillor in the London Borough of Merton from 1998 to 2000.
Willott was educated at Uppingham School and then studied Classics at St Mary's College, Durham University. She then attended the London School of Economics obtaining an MSc in Development Studies.
For a while after university she was chief researcher for Lembit Opik.
Willott's 2005 campaign was closely linked to specific local and national issues and her support was widespread across all wards.
In her maiden speech, Willott pledged to "make Cardiff proud" and celebrated the cultural diversity of her constituency. She declared her priorities in parliament would be local health services, tuition and top-up fees, and council tax. She supported Sir Menzies Campbell in the leadership election in 2006, and was later appointed Shadow Minister for Youth Affairs, Whip, and Deputy Chief Whip. In 2008 she was appointed as Shadow Minister for Justice and later Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. In January 2009 she was appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In December 2010 she resigned her post as parliamentary aide to Chris Huhne shortly before a vote to increase tuition fees as recommended by the Browne Review, in order to keep her pledge to constituents that she would vote against any increase in fees.
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John Major
Sir John Major, KG, CH, PC, ACIB (born 29 March 1943) is a British Conservative politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He held the posts of Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon from 1979 to 2001.
Despite Thatcher's "notorious" assertion that "she expected to continue in control as a backseat driver," Major's mild and consensual style was seen as complete contrast to Thatcher's forceful and confrontational manner. Early in his term, he presided over British participation in the First Gulf War (March 1991) and negotiated "Game, Set and Match for Britain" at the Maastricht Treaty (December 1991). Despite the British economy then being in recession he led the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive election victory, winning the most votes in British electoral history in the 1992 general election, albeit with a much reduced majority in the House of Commons. He is to date, the last Conservative leader to win an outright majority in a general election.
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John Nott
Sir John William Frederic Nott KCB (born 1 February 1932 in Bideford, Devon) is a former British Conservative Party politician prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He featured heavily in the public eye as Secretary of State for Defence during the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and the subsequent Falklands War.
The son of Richard Nott and Phyllis née Francis, Nott was educated at Bradfield College and was commissioned as a regular officer in the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in Malaysia (1952–1956). He left to study law and economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society. At Cambridge he met his future wife Miloshka, herself a refugee from Communist Slovenia (Yugoslavia). They have two sons and a daughter.
Nott was Member of Parliament for St Ives in Cornwall from 1966 to 1983. Interestingly, John Nott was the last person to commence his parliamentary career under the nearly obsolete National Liberal label. The National Liberals were formally absorbed by the Conservatives in 1968 and Nott then sat as a Conservative MP.
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Jon Moulton
Jon Moulton (born 15 October 1950) is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners. Moulton is best known for leading Alchemy Partners' bid to buy MG Rover from BMW in 2000, which ultimately lost out to a rival offer from the Phoenix Consortium.
Following the Installation Dinner of Mary Collis as Master of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants at the Carpenter's Hall in October 2011, Moulton was admitted as an Honorary Freeman of the Company, in recognition of his long standing support of the Company and of outstanding service to private equity and the management consultancy industry.
Moulton is originally from Stoke-on-Trent. He was educated at Hanley High School and Lancaster University, where he took a degree in chemistry. He then trained as a chartered accountant, and joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1972. He left in 1980 to join Citicorp Venture Capital, and became managing director in London. He was managing partner of Schroder Ventures from 1985 to 1994, and after a spell at Apax Partners founded Alchemy in 1997.
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Justine Greening
Justine Greening (born 30 April 1969) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney since 2005. She was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury in May 2010, and became Secretary of State for Transport on 14 October 2011. Her promotion followed the appointment of her predecessor, Philip Hammond, as Secretary of State for Defence following the resignation of Liam Fox.
Greening was born in Rotherham, where she attended Oakwood Comprehensive School. She attended the University of Southampton, where she studied Economics, and the London Business School (MBA). Prior to entering Parliament, she trained and qualified as an accountant, before working as an accountant/finance manager for, amongst others, Price Waterhouse Coopers, GlaxoSmithKline and Centrica.
Greening contested the constituency of Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush in 2001, finishing second with a reduced share of the vote for the Conservatives. She won the seat of Putney in the 2005 General Election on 5 May 2005. Greening won 15,497 votes (42.4% of the vote) giving her a majority of 1,766 (4.8%). She unseated Tony Colman, who had held the seat for Labour since defeating David Mellor in 1997. As the first Conservative elected on the evening of the election, her victory was the first real sign that the Conservative Party was to achieve a degree of success and begin to recover from landslide defeats of the 1997 and 2001 General Elections. Michael Howard, who had visited Putney to give a speech on his first day as Conservative Leader, returned there on the morning after the Election to congratulate Putney Conservatives and give the speech in which he announced his intention to step down.
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Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Harry "Ken" Clarke, PC, QC, MP (born 2 July 1940) is a British Conservative politician, currently Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. He was first elected to Parliament in 1970; and appointed a minister in Edward Heath's government in 1972. One of Britain's best-known politicians, his past government roles include Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Since 1997 he has been President of the Tory Reform Group.
Clarke was a minister throughout the 18 years of successive Conservative governments from 1979 to 1997, serving in the cabinets of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. After the Conservative defeat in the 1997 general election Clarke became a backbencher. He has contested the Conservative Party leadership three times—in 1997, 2001 and 2005—and was defeated each time. Although he is considered popular with the general public, his pro-European integration views conflict with the modern Conservative Party's EU-sceptic stance. Notably, he is President of the Conservative Europe Group and Vice-President of the European Movement UK. Despite this conflict, and his involvement with the tobacco industry, Conservative leader David Cameron returned Clarke to the Shadow Cabinet in March 2009 as Shadow Business Secretary. When Cameron became Prime Minister in May 2010 he appointed Clarke Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.
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Liam Fox
Liam Fox (born 22 September 1961) is a British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament for North Somerset, and former Secretary of State for Defence.
Fox studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and worked as a GP and Civilian Army Medical Officer before being elected as an MP in 1992. After holding several ministerial roles in John Major's Conservative government, Fox served as Constitutional Affairs Spokesman (1998–1999), Shadow Health Secretary (1999–2003), Conservative Party chairman (2003–05), Shadow Foreign Secretary (2005) and Shadow Defence Secretary (2005–10).
Fox stood unsuccessfully in the 2005 Conservative leadership election. In 2010, he was appointed Secretary of State for Defence, a position from which he resigned on 14 October 2011 over allegations that he had given a close friend, lobbyist Adam Werritty, access to the Ministry of Defence and allowed him to join official trips overseas.
Fox was born and raised in East Kilbride, Scotland and brought up in a council house that his parents later bought. Along with his brother and two sisters he was educated in the state sector; he attended St. Bride's High School. He studied medicine at the University of Glasgow Medical School, graduating with MB ChB degrees in 1983. Fox is a general practitioner (he was a GP in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, before his election to Parliament), a former Civilian Army Medical Officer and Divisional Surgeon with St John Ambulance. He is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
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Lord Privy Seal
The Lord Privy Seal (or, more formally, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal) is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain. The office is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state. Originally, its holder was responsible for the monarch's personal (privy) seal (as opposed to the Great Seal of the Realm, which is in the care of the Lord Chancellor). Today, the holder of the office is invariably given a seat in the Cabinet.
Though one of the oldest offices in government anywhere, it has no particular function today; thus the office has generally been used as a kind of Minister without Portfolio. Since the premiership of Clement Attlee, the position of Lord Privy Seal has frequently been combined with that of Leader of the House of Lords or Leader of the House of Commons.
During the reign of Edward I, prior to 1307, the Privy Seal was kept by the Keeper of the Wardrobe.
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Malcolm Rifkind
Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind KCMG, PC, QC, MP (born 21 June 1946) is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for Kensington. He served in various roles as a cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Scotland (1986–1990), Defence Secretary (1992–1995) and Foreign Secretary (1995–1997).
Rifkind was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh Pentlands from 1974 to 1997, when his party lost power and he lost his seat to the Labour Party. He attempted - unsuccessfully - to be re-elected in Pentlands in 2001; the constituency was abolished before the 2005 general election and he was adopted, and subsequently elected, as the Conservative candidate for Kensington and Chelsea. He announced his intention to seek the leadership of the party before the 2005 Conservative Party leadership election, but withdrew before balloting commenced. He was Chairman of the Standards and Privileges Committee of the House of Commons until the dissolution of the House of Commons on 12 April 2010. When the Kensington and Chelsea constituency was realigned to create the new seats of Chelsea and Fulham and Kensington, Rifkind stood for the latter seat and was elected at the 2010 general election with a 50.1% share of total votes cast, with a majority of 8,616 votes.
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, née Roberts (born 13 October 1925) is a British politician and the longest-serving (1979–1990) British prime minister of the 20th century, and the only woman ever to have held the post. A Soviet journalist nicknamed her the "Iron Lady", which later became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As prime minister, she implemented conservative policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.
Originally a research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975 Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election and became Leader of the Opposition, as well as the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom. She became prime minister after winning the 1979 general election.
After entering 10 Downing Street, Thatcher introduced a series of political and economic initiatives to reverse what she perceived as Britain's precipitous national decline. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation (particularly of the financial sector), flexible labour markets, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Thatcher's popularity during her first years in office waned amid recession and high unemployment, until economic recovery and the 1982 Falklands War brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her re-election in 1983. Thatcher was re-elected for a third term in 1987, but her Community Charge (popularly referred to as "poll tax") was widely unpopular and her views on the European Community were not shared by others in her Cabinet. She resigned as Prime Minister and party leader in November 1990, after Michael Heseltine launched a challenge to her leadership.
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Mark Francois
Mark Gino Francois (born 14 August 1965) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rayleigh and Wickford.
Mark Gino Francois was born in Islington, London. He was educated at the Nicholas Comprehensive School in Basildon, Essex and at the University of Bristol where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1986. He was also the chairman of the University's Conservative Association. He completed his studies at King's College London where he earned a MA in War Studies in 1987.
On leaving university he became a management trainee with Lloyds Bank. In 1988 he joined lobbying company Market Access International, leaving as a director in 1996 to set up his own lobbying firm Francois Associates.
He was a member of Basildon District Council for four years from 1991. He stood for Brent East during the 1997 general election, and lost to Ken Livingstone (who later became the Mayor of London). Following the death of Alan Clark in 1999, he narrowly lost out to Michael Portillo in the selection for the 1999 Kensington and Chelsea by-election. On the retirement of Dr. Michael Clark at the 2001 general election he beat Boris Johnson to be selected to fight the safe Tory seat of Rayleigh.
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Mark Stanhope
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, GCB, OBE (born 26 March 1952) is the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff of the United Kingdom, thus the professional head of the Royal Navy.
Stanhope was educated at the London Nautical School, Worthing High School for Boys (since 1973 the sixth form college Worthing College), and then St Peter's College, Oxford, where he gained an MA in physics.
Stanhope joined the Royal Navy in 1970 and was promoted to full lieutenant on 1 May 1977. Promoted to lieutenant-commander on 16 October 1982, he commanded the submarine HMS Orpheus from 1981 to 1983. After receiving promotion to commander in June 1986, he commanded the submarine HMS Splendid from 1986 to 1989. He was appointed OBE in the 1989 New Year Honours list.
Promoted to captain in June 1991, he then went on to command the frigate HMS London from 1991 to 1993 and subsequently the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious from 1998 to 2000 during which time that ship was deployed on operational patrol off Sierra Leone. He was appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet in 2002.
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Michael Ancram
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, PC, DL, QC (born 7 July 1945), known as Michael Ancram, is a British Conservative Party politician. He is a member of the House of Lords, former Member of Parliament, and a former member of the Shadow Cabinet. He is also the Chief of the Scottish Kerr Clan.
Michael Ancram was born in London, and is of Scottish descent. He was educated at Ampleforth College, an independent school in North Yorkshire, followed by Christ Church at the University of Oxford (BA History 1966, MA), where he was a member of the Bullingdon Club, and the University of Edinburgh (LLB 1968).
Ancram was called to the Scottish bar in 1970 and continued to practise as an advocate until 1979, apart from a brief period in 1974 when he first sat as an MP. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1996.
Ancram unsuccessfully contested the West Lothian parliamentary seat in 1970. He was first elected to Parliament in the February 1974 general election, when he contested and won the seat of Berwickshire and East Lothian, but lost the seat in the October election of the same year. He re-entered Parliament at the 1979 election as the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South, beating future Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He lost his seat again at the 1987 general election, but returned to Parliament at the 1992 election representing Devizes.
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Michael Gove
Michael Andrew Gove (born 26 August 1967) is a British politician, who currently serves as the Secretary of State for Education and as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for the Surrey Heath constituency. He is also an author and former Times journalist who remains on friendly terms with proprietor Rupert Murdoch.
Born in Edinburgh, Gove was raised in Aberdeen and made an early career as a journalist. He was first elected to parliament in the 2005 general election, as the MP for the safe Conservative seat of Surrey Heath in South East England. He was first promoted to the shadow cabinet in 2007 under David Cameron, as the Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.
After the formation of the coalition government in 2010, Gove was appointed the Secretary of State for Education.
Gove was born in Edinburgh. At four months old, he was adopted by a Labour-supporting family in Aberdeen, where he was brought up. His father ran a fish processing business; his mother was a lab assistant at the University of Aberdeen before working at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf.
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Michael Heseltine
Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC (born 21 March 1933) is a British businessman, Conservative politician and patron of the Tory Reform Group. He was a Member of Parliament from 1966 to 2001 and was a prominent figure in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. In 1990, he stood for leadership of the Conservative Party against Margaret Thatcher, and whilst he was unsuccessful, this triggered Thatcher's eventual resignation.
A self-made millionaire, Heseltine entered parliament in 1966, entered the Cabinet in 1979 as Secretary of State for the Environment, and was Secretary of State for Defence from 1983 to 1986. In the latter role, he was instrumental in the political battle against the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Heseltine was widely considered an adept media performer and charismatic Minister, although frequently at odds with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He resigned from the Cabinet in 1986 over the Westland Affair and returned to the backbenches. Following Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech in November 1990, Heseltine challenged the incumbent Margaret Thatcher for the leadership of the Conservative Party, polling well enough to deny her an outright victory on the first ballot. Following her resignation in a dramatic Tory "palace coup", Heseltine returned to the Cabinet under her successor John Major.
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Michael Howard
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, PC, QC, (born Michael Hecht, 7 July 1941) is a British politician, who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He had previously held cabinet positions in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Employment (1990–92), Secretary of State for the Environment (1992–93) and Home Secretary (1993–97).
Howard was born in Gorseinon, South Wales. He joined the Young Conservatives at 15 and studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1964 he was called to the Bar and became a Queen's Counsel in 1982. He became a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1983 General Election, representing the constituency of Folkestone and Hythe. This quickly led to promotion and Howard became Minister for Local Government in 1987. Under Prime Minister John Major (1990–1997), he held several cabinet positions including Secretary of State for Employment (1990–1992) and Home Secretary (1993–1997).
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Michael Portillo
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (born 26 May 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative Party politician and Cabinet Minister. Portillo was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1984; a strong admirer of Margaret Thatcher, and a Eurosceptic, Portillo served as a junior minister under both Thatcher and John Major, before entering the cabinet in 1992. Seen as a likely challenger to Major during the 1995 Conservative leadership election, Portillo ultimately stayed loyal. As Defence Secretary, Portillo pressed for a purist Thatcherite course of "clear blue water", separating the policies of the Conservatives from Labour.
Portillo unexpectedly lost his Enfield Southgate seat at the 1997 general election; political commentators widely believe that he would have been elected Conservative leader had he retained it. Returning to the Commons through a by-election in Kensington and Chelsea in 1999, Portillo rejoined the front bench as Shadow Chancellor, although his relationship with Conservative Leader William Hague was strained. Standing for the leadership of the party in 2001, Portillo came a narrow third place behind Iain Duncan Smith and Kenneth Clarke. Portillo retired from the Commons at the 2005 general election, and has since pursued his media interests, presenting a wide range of television and radio programmes.
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Nick Clegg
Nicholas William Peter "Nick" Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is the British Liberal Democrat Leader since 2007 and currently the Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council (with special responsibility for political and constitutional reform) in the coalition government of which David Cameron is the Prime Minister. Clegg has been the Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2007, and a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Sheffield Hallam since 2005. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and an award winning journalist for the Financial Times.
Clegg was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election and became the Liberal Democrats' Home Affairs spokesperson in 2006. Clegg became Deputy Prime Minister following the 2010 general election, when the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party. As well as his parliamentary roles, Clegg has contributed to many pamphlets and books on political issues. He has also had a large number of jobs, including being a skiing instructor and working in the office of a bank in Helsinki.
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Norman Lamb
Norman Peter Lamb (born 16 September 1957) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs. He was formerly Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.
He is the Member of Parliament for North Norfolk.
Lamb was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, the son of climatologist Professor Hubert Lamb. He went to Wymondham College, then the University of Leicester, getting an LLB
After graduating from the University of Leicester, Lamb worked as a solicitor. He began to specialise in employment law whilst working for Steele and Co Solicitors (now called Steeles Law). In 1998 he wrote a book, Remedies in the Employment Tribunal: Damages for Discrimination and Unfair Dismissal, but any chances of a follow up or update to this book were put aside when Lamb was elected to Parliament in June 2001.
Lamb worked for a year for Labour MP Greville Janner in the early 1980s, working as a researcher. His politics were always in the centre ground, but a meeting with Shirley Williams in Parliament at this time, shortly after the formation in 1981 of the SDP-Liberal Alliance, spurred Lamb in to front line active politics and he was elected to Norwich City Council where he led the Lib Dem group until he stood down in 1991 in order to pursue his Westminster ambitions.
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Oliver Letwin
Oliver Letwin MP FRSA (born 19 May 1956, in Hampstead)[citation needed] is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he is currently the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, and a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of West Dorset. He is also the Chairman of the Conservative Research Department and Chairman of the Conservative Party's Policy Review.
Letwin is the son of William Letwin, Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics, and conservative academic Shirley Letwin. Letwin was educated at Hall School in Hampstead and Eton College. He went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge. Whilst a student at Cambridge, he was an active member of the Cambridge University Liberal Club. When asked about his membership of the Liberal club he explained:
"I was also a member of the Fabian Society. But I am sorry to have to tell you that this was because I was interested in the thoughts of Liberals and Fabians (and still am) rather than because I was ever a Liberal Democrat or a Fabian."
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Owen Paterson
Owen William Paterson (born 24 June 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Shropshire.
Paterson was born in Whitchurch, Shropshire. He attended Abberley Hall School and Radley College, before going to Cambridge University, where he studied History at Corpus Christi College and graduated in 1978. He then went on to the National Leathersellers College (now the British School of Leather Technology at the University of Northampton).
He joined the British Leather Company in 1979, becoming Sales Director in 1983 and Managing Director from 1993 to 1999. He was President of COTANCE, the European Tanners Confederation from 1996–1998. He was a Director of Parsons and Sons leather company in Halesowen in the 1990s. Paterson is a Liveryman of the Leathersellers' Company.
He contested, but failed to win, the Wrexham seat in the 1992 general election. He is Member of Parliament for North Shropshire, being first elected at the 1997 general election and has won at all general elections there since.
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Patrick McLoughlin
Patrick Allen McLoughlin (born 30 November 1957, in Stafford) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1986, initially for West Derbyshire and since 2010 for its successor, the Derbyshire Dales constituency. He is currently the coalition government's Chief Whip in the House of Commons, having held the same portfolio in opposition prior to the 2010 election.
McLoughlin was born in Stafford, the son and grandson of coal miners. He was educated at the Cardinal Griffin Roman Catholic School in Cannock, Staffordshire, and Staffordshire College of Agriculture at Rodbaston College. From 1974 he worked for five years as a farm worker and after 1979 worked underground at the Littleton Colliery in Cannock. He was a member of the National Union of Mineworkers, he became an industrial representative for the National Coal Board's Western Area Marketing Department.
McLoughlin was elected as a councillor on the Cannock Chase District Council for seven years from 1980, and also a councillor on Staffordshire County Council from 1981-87.
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Peter Shore
Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney PC (20 May 1924 – 24 September 2001) was a British Labour politician and former Cabinet Minister, noted in part for his opposition to the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community. His idiosyncratic left-wing nationalism led to comparison with the French politician Jean-Pierre Chevènement. He was described in an obituary by the Conservative journalist Patrick Cosgrave as "Between Harold Wilson and Tony Blair, the only possible Labour Party leader of whom a Conservative leader had cause to walk in fear."
Born in Great Yarmouth, Shore was the son of a Merchant Navy captain and was brought up in a middle-class environment. He attended the Quarry Bank Grammar School in Liverpool, England, and went from there to King's College, Cambridge, to study history, where he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society with an elite membership. During the later stages of World War II he served in the Royal Air Force, spending most time in India.
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Philip Hammond
Philip Hammond MP (born 4 December 1955) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the current Secretary of State for Defence in the Coalition government led by David Cameron, having succeeded Liam Fox on 14 October 2011. He previously served as Secretary of State for Transport from 13 May 2010, when he was appointed as a Privy Counsellor. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Runnymede and Weybridge.
Philip Hammond was born in Epping, Essex, the son of a civil engineer, he first attended Brookfield Junior school, further educated at Shenfield School (now Shenfield High School) in Brentwood, Essex, and University College, Oxford, where he was awarded a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
He joined the medical equipment manufacturers Speywood Laboratories Ltd in 1977, becoming a director of Speywood Medical Limited in 1981. In 1982, an automatic electrocardiograph electrode manufacturing plant figured among his notable achievements. He left in 1983. From 1984, he was a director in Castlemead Ltd, and from 1993–95 he was a partner in CMA Consultants, and from 1994, a director in Castlemead Homes. He has had many business interests including house building and property, manufacturing, healthcare and oil and gas. He has undertaken various consulting assignments in Latin America for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and was a consultant to the government of Malawi from 1995 until his election to Parliament.
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Rab Butler
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG CH DL PC (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician. Butler was one of only two British politicians (the other being John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon) to have served in three of the four Great Offices of State (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary) but never to have achieved the Premiership, for which he was twice passed over.
Butler was born in Attock Serai, Attock in India (now Punjab, Pakistan) to Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler and his wife, Anne Gertrude (née Smith). His maternal uncles were Charles Aitchison Smith, Sir George Adam Smith and Sir James Dunlop Smith. His father later remarried and thus he gained a half-sister, Iris Mary Butler, who became Iris Portal upon her marriage.
Butler's was a family of Cambridge dons and Indian Governors; as a child his right arm was injured in a riding accident, leaving his hand never again fully functional. His limp handshake and inevitable lack of military experience (and stooping donnish manner at a time when many politicians were former officers) were political handicaps in later life. He was educated at Marlborough College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society in the summer term of his third year; in March 1924, as a newly-elected President, he entertained the Opposition Leader Stanley Baldwin at a debate.
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Ranil Wickremasinghe
Ranil Shriyan Wickremesinghe (Sinhala: රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ, Tamil: ரணில் விக்ரமசிங்க), MP, (born March 24, 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician and current Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan parliament. He was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka twice, from May 7, 1993 to August 19, 1994 and from December 9, 2001 to April 6, 2004. A member of the United National Party he was appointed party leader in November 1994. He is also the leader of the United National Front having been appointed head of the alliance in October 2009.
Ranil Shriyan Wickremasinghe is the second son of Esmond and Nalini Wickremasinghe. Esmond Wickremasinghe was a press baron, an ex-Samasamajist and supremo of the Lake House group of newspapers. His paternal uncle Lakshman Wickremasinghe was a Bishop of the Church of Sri Lanka. His maternal line consisted of newspaper barons and landowners, the Wijewardenas, who were Sinhala Buddhists. His maternal grandfather was D. R. Wijewardena, the founder of the Lake House publishing empire a pro-independence activist and a financier of the independence movement. He was a nephew of J.R. Jayewardene, later President of Sri Lanka.
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Reginald Maudling
Reginald Maudling PC (7 March 1917 – 14 February 1979) was a British politician who held several Cabinet posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had been spoken of as a prospective Conservative leader since 1955, and was twice seriously considered for the post; he was Edward Heath's chief rival in 1965. He also held many directorships in the British financial world.
As Home Secretary, he was responsible for the British Government's Northern Irish policy during the period that included Bloody Sunday in 1972; shortly thereafter, he left office because of an unrelated scandal in one of the companies of which he was director.
Reginald Maudling was born in Woodside Park, North Finchley, and was named after his father, Reginald George Maudling, an actuary, who contracted to do actuarial and financial calculations as the Commercial Calculating Company Ltd. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to Bexhill, to escape German air raids; he won scholarships to the Merchant Taylors' School and Merton College, Oxford. At Oxford, Maudling stayed out of undergraduate politics and studied the works of Georg Wilhelm Hegel; he was to formulate his conclusions later as the inseparability of economic and political freedom: "the purpose of State control and the guiding principle of its application is the achievement of true freedom". He obtained his degree in Classics with first class honours.
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Robert Goodwill
Robert Goodwill (born 31 December 1956) is a British farmer and Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough and Whitby and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Goodwill was born in North Yorkshire and was educated at the Quaker Bootham School in York, and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture in 1979. He is a farmer of 250 acres (100 ha) of mainly arable land near Malton which has been in his family since 1850. He has been the managing director of Mowthorpe (UK) Ltd since 1995 which offers environmentally friendly burials in the North Yorkshire countryside [1].
Goodwill unsuccessfully contested Redcar at the 1992 general election where he finished second, some 11,577 votes behind the sitting Labour MP Mo Mowlam. He unsuccessfully contested Cleveland and Richmond at the 1994 European election. He again attempted to enter the House of Commons at the 1997 general election when he was selected for the marginally held Conservative seat of North West Leicestershire following the deselection[citation needed] of the sitting MP David Ashby. Goodwill was defeated by Labour's David Taylor by 13,219 votes. In 1998, he contested the Yorkshire SouthEuropean Parliament by-election, but was again defeated.
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Robin Cook
Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 – 6 August 2005), known as Robin Cook, was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Livingston from 1983 until his death, and notably served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001.
He studied at the University of Edinburgh before becoming a Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Central in 1974. In parliament he was noted for his debating ability which saw his rise through the political ranks and ultimately to the Cabinet.
He resigned from his positions as Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons on 17 March 2003 in protest against the invasion of Iraq. At the time of his death, he was President of the Foreign Policy Centre and a vice-president of the America All Party Parliamentary Group and the Global Security and Non-Proliferation All Party Parliamentary Group.
Robin Cook was born in the County Hospital, Bellshill, Scotland, the only son of Peter and Christina Cook (née Lynch). His father was a chemistry teacher who grew up in Fraserburgh, and his grandfather was a miner before being blacklisted for being involved in a strike.
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Selwyn Lloyd
John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH PC CBE TD (28 July 1904 – 18 May 1978), known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Foreign Secretary from 1955 to 1960, then as Chancellor of the Exchequer until 1962. He was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1971 to 1976.
Lloyd was educated at Fettes College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union and the Cambridge University Liberal Club. He was a Liberal Parliamentary candidate at Macclesfield in the 1929 general election, coming third.
He served as a councillor on Hoylake Urban District Council 1932–40.
During the Second World War he reached the rank of brigadier and was Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Second Army.
He was elected to the House of Commons to represent Wirral in the 1945 general election. Originally a Liberal, he became a member of the "Young Turks" faction of the Conservative Party.
When the Conservatives returned to power under Churchill in 1951, Lloyd served under Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1951 to 1954.
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Shailesh Vara
Shailesh Lakhman Vara (born 4 September 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Cambridgeshire in the 2005 general election, succeeding Brian Mawhinney as the Conservative MP for the seat. Shailesh Vara has previously been a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party. In 2006, he was appointed to the shadow ministerial post of Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons. Following the 2010 general election, he was appointed to the position of Assistant Whip in the coalition government.
Born in Uganda to Hindu Indian Immigrants. Vara came to Britain with his family in 1964 when he was four. Educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and Brunel University, Vara qualified as a solicitor. He worked in the City and West End of London, and during 1989-1990, he worked in Hong Kong. Vara has been a senior legal adviser and business consultant for London First, and is vice-president of the Small Business Bureau. He also has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and set up his own club where he taught for a while. Vara is married with two children.
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Stephen Crabb
Stephen Crabb (born 20 January 1973) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Preseli Pembrokeshire.
Crabb was born in Inverness and brought up in council housing in Pembrokeshire. He was educated at the Fenton Infants School, Barn Street Junior School (now both called Fenton Community Primary School) on Portfield and Tasker Milward V.C. School in Haverfordwest from 1984-91. He was awarded a BSc (1st) in Politics at the University of Bristol in 1995 and a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School.
In 1996 he became a parliamentary affairs officer for the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, before working at the London Chamber of Commerce in 1998: he left them in 2002 as the policy and campaigns manager. He has been a business consultant since.
From 1995 to 1996 he was a Christian Action Research and Education parliamentary intern.
He was elected as the chairman of the Southwark North and Bermondsey Conservative Association for two years in 1998 and in the same year was an election monitor in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Stuart Peach
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart William Peach KCB CBE FRAeS (born 1956) is a senior Royal Air Force officer, currently serving as the first Commander of Joint Forces Command. He was Chief of Joint Operations from March 2009 until taking up his current appointment in December 2011.
Peach was commissioned as a University Cadet in 1974, being regraded on graduation in 1977, and promoted to Flying Officer and Flight Lieutenant the following year. A navigator, Peach served one tour on the English Electric Canberra in the photographic reconnaissance role and then three tours on the ground attack and reconnaissance variant of the Panavia Tornado in both the UK and Germany, being promoted to Squadron Leader in 1986, becoming a Qualified Weapons Instructor and receiving the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air in the 1990 Birthday Honours List.
After Staff College in 1990 he returned to Germany to serve as Personal Staff Officer to, in turn, Deputy Commander RAF Germany, Commander-in-Chief RAF Germany and Commander Second Allied Tactical Air Force (of which RAF Germany formed a part), being promoted to Wing Commander in 1991. From 1994 to 1996 Peach commanded IX (Bomber) Squadron operating in the Strike, Attack and SEAD role, also acting as Deputy Station Commander RAF Bruggen.
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Theresa May
Theresa Mary May (née Brasier, born 1 October 1956) is a British Conservative politician who is Home Secretary in the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition government. She was elected to Parliament in 1997 as the Member of Parliament for Maidenhead, and served as the Chairman of the Conservative Party, 2003–04. Appointed to the Privy Council in 2003, she became Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Minister for Women before being appointed Home Secretary and the Minister for Women and Equality in David Cameron's Cabinet on 11 May 2010.
May was born 1 October 1956 in Eastbourne, Sussex. She is the daughter of Rev Hubert Brasier, a Church of England clergyman and Mrs Zaidee Brasier. Her education was completed at a combination of state primary, independent convent and state secondary schools. She initially attended Heythrop Primary School, Oxfordshire, followed by St. Juliana's Convent School for Girls, a Roman Catholic independent school in Begbroke, which closed in 1984. At the age of 13, she gained a place at the former Holton Park Girls' Grammar School in Wheatley in Oxfordshire. In 1971, the school was abolished and became the site of the new Wheatley Park Comprehensive School during her time as a pupil. May then attended the University of Oxford where she read Geography at St Hugh's College, taking a BA (Hons) in 1977.
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Tim Yeo
Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo (born 20 March 1945) is an English Conservative politician, Member of Parliament for South Suffolk and the current Chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee.
He was educated at Charterhouse School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he gained an MA in History in 1968.
From 1970-3, he was assistant treasurer of Bankers Trust Company, then from 1975–86, he was Director of Worcester Engineering Company. From 1980-3, he was Chief Executive of the Spastics Society (now called Scope).
Yeo contested Bedwellty in the February 1974 General Election before being elected as MP for South Suffolk in 1983.
Yeo became PPS to Douglas Hurd in 1988. In 1992, he was appointed Minister for the Environment and Countryside in John Major's government, but was forced to resign after a scandal involving his so-called 'love child' with a Tory councillor, Julia Stent, who was born on 8 July 1993. Three years earlier, Yeo said to the branch of Relate in his constituency, "It is in everyone's interests to reduce broken families and the number of single parents. I have seen from my own constituency the consequences of marital breakdown."
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Vince Cable
John Vincent "Vince" Cable (born 9 May 1943) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and economist who is currently the Business Secretary in the coalition cabinet of David Cameron. He has been Member of Parliament for Twickenham since 1997.
Cable studied economics at university and became an economic advisor to the Kenyan government in 1966. He was an advisor to the British government and to the Commonwealth Secretary-General in the 1970s and 1980s. Later, he served as Chief Economist for the oil company Shell from 1995 to 1997. In 1970s, Cable was active in the Labour Party and became a Glasgow councillor. However in 1982, he joined the Social Democratic Party which would later join the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats, and he unsuccessfully contested seats in the elections of 1983 (York), 1987 (York) and 1992 (Twickenham) until being elected as the MP for the London constituency of Twickenham in the 1997 general election.
Cable was the Liberal Democrats' senior economic spokesperson from 2003 to May 2010. He was elected Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons in March 2006, and following Sir Menzies Campbell's resignation, he was Acting Leader for two months—from October 2007 until the election of Nick Clegg. He resigned from his position as Deputy Leader in May 2010.
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William Hague
William Jefferson Hague MP FRSL (born 26 March 1961) is a British politician, who is the current Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State. He served as Leader of the Conservative Party from June 1997 to September 2001. In Parliament, he has represented the constituency of Richmond (Yorks) since 1989.
Educated at Wath-upon-Dearne Grammar School, a state grammar school, then the University of Oxford (graduating with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics) and INSEAD, Hague was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1989. Hague rose through the ranks of John Major's government and entered the Cabinet in 1995 as the Secretary of State for Wales. Following the Conservatives' defeat in the 1997 general election, he was elected as leader of the Conservative Party. He resigned as party leader after the 2001 general election following a landslide defeat to the Labour Party. He was the first leader of the Conservatives not to have become Prime Minister since Austen Chamberlain in the early 1920s.
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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
Churchill was born into the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jenny Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.
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Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford since 2010, having previously been MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997. She served in the Cabinet between 2008 and 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. She is currently the Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.
Born in Inverness, her father is Tony Cooper, former General Secretary of the Union Prospect, a member of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and a former Chairman of the British Nuclear Industry Forum. He was appointed to the government's Energy Advisory Panel by the Conservatives..
She was educated at the comprehensive Eggar's School on London Road in Holybourne near Alton and Alton College. She studied at Balliol College, Oxford where she was awarded first class honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. It was there she becomes friends with her future colleague, James Purnell. She gained a Kennedy Scholarship in 1991 to Harvard University and finished her studies with an MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics.
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Famous quotes by Liam Fox:
"The whole thing is really quite pathetic. Here we have two self-obsessed schoolboys who spend all their time thinking about themselves and their future and not the future of the country."
"Britain needs an education system that is appropriate to both society and the individual - and it is wrong to pretend that watering down academic standards in pursuit of universal achievement will do that,"
"I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction,"
"Instead of reaching inside ourselves we need to remind the country we are the natural party of government."
"I am the only candidate who is going into this contest with a positive vision of the future,"
"It's a question of whether they have learned any lessons at all."
"inept from start to finish."
"It's simply not sensible for the government to say there's no link. What I think is surprising is that the government denies there's any link - but the government's handling of this has been rather inept politically from start to finish."
"It's simply not sensible ... for the government to say there is no link whatsoever between what is happening in Iraq and what is happening in terms of recruiting extremists."
"There's no point in asking focus groups. I go down the pub and hear about it there."
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Louise Mensch defends Liam Fox on Have I Got News For You
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- Duration: 3:08
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Louise Mensch MP defends Liam Fox on Have I Got News For You, 21 October 2011. Louise Mensch likes to pretend Liam Fox was brought down by smears around his sexuality; its a story his allies hope will make it easier for him to return to front line politics in the future. In truth, the allegations against him were far more serious.
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Louise Mensch MP defends Liam Fox on Have I Got News For You, 21 October 2011. Louise Mensch likes to pretend Liam Fox was brought down by smears around his sexuality; its a story his allies hope will make it easier for him to return to front line politics in the future. In truth, the allegations against him were far more serious.
Liam Fox Issues a Warning to America
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- Duration: 4:36
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Britain's Liam Fox has a warning for America: Fix the debt problem now or suffer the consequences of less power on the world stage. The former UK secretary of state for defense visited Heritage to explain why the America's debt is a national security issue.
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Britain's Liam Fox has a warning for America: Fix the debt problem now or suffer the consequences of less power on the world stage. The former UK secretary of state for defense visited Heritage to explain why the America's debt is a national security issue.
- published: 29 Feb 2012
- views: 4895
- author: HeritageFoundation
Dr Liam Fox MP: "Britain, the euro and the European Union"
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- Duration: 22:09
- Updated: 24 Sep 2012
Speaking to the TaxPayers' Alliance at the St. Stephen's Club, Westminster, on 2nd July 2012, Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP argued for a rebalancing of our relationship with the European Union and a referendum to decide any ultimate renegotiation. You can read the full text of the speech here - www.taxpayersalliance.com You can find out more about the TaxPayers' Alliance here - www.taxpayersalliance.com
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Speaking to the TaxPayers' Alliance at the St. Stephen's Club, Westminster, on 2nd July 2012, Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP argued for a rebalancing of our relationship with the European Union and a referendum to decide any ultimate renegotiation. You can read the full text of the speech here - www.taxpayersalliance.com You can find out more about the TaxPayers' Alliance here - www.taxpayersalliance.com
- published: 02 Jul 2012
- views: 860
- author: TaxpayersallianceUK
Liam Fox on Cameron's Europe speech (23Jan13)
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- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Conservative MP Liam Fox on Prime Minister David Cameron's Europe speech. Recorded from BBC News Channel, 23 January 2013.
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Conservative MP Liam Fox on Prime Minister David Cameron's Europe speech. Recorded from BBC News Channel, 23 January 2013.
- published: 23 Jan 2013
- views: 218
- author: liarpoliticians
Liam Fox on Algeria hostages and Europe (20Jan13)
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- Duration: 9:13
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox. Recorded from BBC1 Sunday Politics, 20 January 2013.
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Former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox. Recorded from BBC1 Sunday Politics, 20 January 2013.
- published: 20 Jan 2013
- views: 111
- author: liarpoliticians
Cameron's gay marriage plans are 'divisive', says Liam Fox
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- Duration: 8:14
- Updated: 27 Jan 2013
BBC Daily Politics Show, 11 Jan 2013 -- discussion of the news that senior Tory MP, Liam Fox, says David Cameron's plans to redefine marriage are "divisive" and "ill thought through". Features Mike Judge, spokesman of the Coalition for Marriage.
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BBC Daily Politics Show, 11 Jan 2013 -- discussion of the news that senior Tory MP, Liam Fox, says David Cameron's plans to redefine marriage are "divisive" and "ill thought through". Features Mike Judge, spokesman of the Coalition for Marriage.
- published: 11 Jan 2013
- views: 4062
- author: CoalitionForMarriage
British defence secretary Liam Fox resigns
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- Duration: 1:45
- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox has resigned following scrutiny over his close friendship with a businessman with defence-related interests. A stream of news stories about Fox and his former flatmate and best man Adam Werritty, who met frequently with Fox and falsely identified himself as his adviser, had eroded the minister's credibility ahead of an inquiry into the affair that was due to be published within days. Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports from London
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Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox has resigned following scrutiny over his close friendship with a businessman with defence-related interests. A stream of news stories about Fox and his former flatmate and best man Adam Werritty, who met frequently with Fox and falsely identified himself as his adviser, had eroded the minister's credibility ahead of an inquiry into the affair that was due to be published within days. Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports from London
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 3077
- author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Liam Fox under pressure
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- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 29 Mar 2012
David Amceron says he wants to see the initial findings of an investigation into Defence Secretary Liam Fox by Monday.
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David Amceron says he wants to see the initial findings of an investigation into Defence Secretary Liam Fox by Monday.
- published: 08 Oct 2011
- views: 1683
- author: Channel4News
Liam Fox, time for UK-EU referendum is now (02July12)
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- Duration: 17:26
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Conservative MP Liam Fox gives a speech where he says the time is now for a UK referendum on being in or out of the EUSSR, a demand no British prime minster is prepared to give because they are puppets of the New World Order, and they want worldwide Communism. Recorded from Sky News, 02 July 2012.
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Conservative MP Liam Fox gives a speech where he says the time is now for a UK referendum on being in or out of the EUSSR, a demand no British prime minster is prepared to give because they are puppets of the New World Order, and they want worldwide Communism. Recorded from Sky News, 02 July 2012.
- published: 02 Jul 2012
- views: 228
- author: liarpoliticians2
Chris Grayling dragged into Liam Fox/Adam Werritty scandal
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- Duration: 6:02
- Updated: 13 Apr 2012
Employment minister Chris Grayling is dragged down into the Liam Fox/Adam Werritty scandal due to his role in Atlantic Bridge.
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Employment minister Chris Grayling is dragged down into the Liam Fox/Adam Werritty scandal due to his role in Atlantic Bridge.
- published: 10 Oct 2011
- views: 1298
- author: LF Forward
Liam Fox on foreign holidays and his 'advisor' (07Oct11)
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- Duration: 2:18
- Updated: 04 Jan 2012
Conservative Liam Fox is being investigated over a number of allegations. Recorded from BBC Breakfast, 07 October 2011.
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Conservative Liam Fox is being investigated over a number of allegations. Recorded from BBC Breakfast, 07 October 2011.
- published: 07 Oct 2011
- views: 3110
- author: liarpoliticians
Liam Fox Apologises Over Friend Access
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- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 14 Jul 2012
The Defence Secretary's revealed he met his close friend Adam Werritty 40 times at the Ministry of Defence and on trips abroad. Liam Fox admits he should have made sure the meetings were properly recorded to avoid accusations of wrongdoing. One of the more controversial ones involves Dubai businessman Harvey Boulter. He says he was under the impression Mr Werritty was a key member of Dr Fox's team.
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The Defence Secretary's revealed he met his close friend Adam Werritty 40 times at the Ministry of Defence and on trips abroad. Liam Fox admits he should have made sure the meetings were properly recorded to avoid accusations of wrongdoing. One of the more controversial ones involves Dubai businessman Harvey Boulter. He says he was under the impression Mr Werritty was a key member of Dr Fox's team.
- published: 10 Oct 2011
- views: 475
- author: skynews
Liam Fox ,Adam Werritty attends meeting with Sri Lankan president
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- Duration: 8:04
- Updated: 31 Oct 2011
www.eelamview.com TV footage of Adam Werritty meeting Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, on a visit to London last December Liam Fox, Adam Werritty, and the unexplained hotel meetings
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www.eelamview.com TV footage of Adam Werritty meeting Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, on a visit to London last December Liam Fox, Adam Werritty, and the unexplained hotel meetings
- published: 09 Oct 2011
- views: 699
- author: eelamview
PNG goes rugby league crazy for PM's XIII clash
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- Duration: 2:08
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
Papua New Guineans have again shown their fanaticism for rugby league at the annual clash between the Prime Minister's XIII teams from Australia and PNG. While they love their NRL heroes, the crowd cheered loudest for the home side, which nearly beat their more fancied opponents. But for the Aussie players, their trip north wasn't just about rugby. PNG correspondent Liam Fox has more.
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Papua New Guineans have again shown their fanaticism for rugby league at the annual clash between the Prime Minister's XIII teams from Australia and PNG. While they love their NRL heroes, the crowd cheered loudest for the home side, which nearly beat their more fancied opponents. But for the Aussie players, their trip north wasn't just about rugby. PNG correspondent Liam Fox has more.
- published: 24 Sep 2012
- views: 3576
- author: australianetworknews
Liam Fox on Deterrence in the 21st Century
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- Duration: 39:20
- Updated: 12 Apr 2012
The Secretary of State for Defence set out how the concept of deterrence will need updating for the 21st century in the context of an alliance structure and rules-based international system constructed in the last century. He gave further information on the Strategic Defence and Security Review being undertaken by the Government.
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The Secretary of State for Defence set out how the concept of deterrence will need updating for the 21st century in the context of an alliance structure and rules-based international system constructed in the last century. He gave further information on the Strategic Defence and Security Review being undertaken by the Government.
- published: 13 Jul 2010
- views: 675
- author: ChathamHouse10
Liam Fox row Werritty 'described as a special adviser'
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- Duration: 4:11
- Updated: 18 Oct 2011
11 October 2011 Last updated at 16:35 Help A businessman who met the defence secretary through Adam Werritty says the meeting would not have taken place if he had known Mr Werritty was not connected to the MoD. The Porton Group's Harvey Boulter told the BBC he met Mr Werrity in April in Dubai, and at the end of the "pre-planned" meeting, Liam Fox "walked through the lobby... [Mr Werritty] introduced me to him, I shook his hand". Civil servants are investigating the conduct of the defence secretary and are expected to look at why Mr Werritty accompanied him on many overseas visits - despite having no official role. www.bbc.co.uk
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11 October 2011 Last updated at 16:35 Help A businessman who met the defence secretary through Adam Werritty says the meeting would not have taken place if he had known Mr Werritty was not connected to the MoD. The Porton Group's Harvey Boulter told the BBC he met Mr Werrity in April in Dubai, and at the end of the "pre-planned" meeting, Liam Fox "walked through the lobby... [Mr Werritty] introduced me to him, I shook his hand". Civil servants are investigating the conduct of the defence secretary and are expected to look at why Mr Werritty accompanied him on many overseas visits - despite having no official role. www.bbc.co.uk
- published: 11 Oct 2011
- views: 242
- author: BrenR1958
Liam Fox secures Northwood NATO headquarters 09.06.11
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- Duration: 2:33
- Updated: 16 Mar 2012
Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox has secured the future of Northwood; a key NATO command headquarters. The headquarters is a major maritime control centre tasked with directing a range of NATO operations; principally counter piracy missions off the coast of Somalia. Speaking at the NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels, Dr. Fox said: "As one of the leading contributors to NATO operations it is only right that NATO retains a command presence on British soil. Agreement was on this matter was a fundamental objective for the UK Government and is a major step forward for NATO reform.
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Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox has secured the future of Northwood; a key NATO command headquarters. The headquarters is a major maritime control centre tasked with directing a range of NATO operations; principally counter piracy missions off the coast of Somalia. Speaking at the NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels, Dr. Fox said: "As one of the leading contributors to NATO operations it is only right that NATO retains a command presence on British soil. Agreement was on this matter was a fundamental objective for the UK Government and is a major step forward for NATO reform.
- published: 10 Jun 2011
- views: 499
- author: BritishForcesNews
Andy McNab and Liam Fox speak at the Combat Stress Summit
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- Duration: 2:43
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Andy McNab, former SAS soldier and author of "Bravo Two Zero", speaks alongside Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary, at the Conservative Party's Combat Stress Summit.
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Andy McNab, former SAS soldier and author of "Bravo Two Zero", speaks alongside Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary, at the Conservative Party's Combat Stress Summit.
- published: 16 Jul 2009
- views: 20082
- author: webcameronuk
One Direction-Detroit Fox Theater- LIAM TAKES MY CAMERA ON STAGE
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follow me: @1dupdates11 One Direction Tell Me A Lie Detroit, MI June 1, 2012 LIAM TAKES MY CAMERA
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follow me: @1dupdates11 One Direction Tell Me A Lie Detroit, MI June 1, 2012 LIAM TAKES MY CAMERA
- published: 04 Jun 2012
- views: 98579
- author: mary kate M
Tory Liam Fox interviewed by Andrew Marr (07Mar10)
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- Duration: 8:05
- Updated: 01 Mar 2012
Conservative Liam Fox is interviewed by Andrew Marr, and of course he can't stop asking about the bullsh1t Lord Ashcroft story that New Labour have been pushing, in an attempt to deflect from New Labour's destruction of the United Kingdom economically, socially, and politically. Recorded from Andrew Marr Show, 07 March 2010.
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Conservative Liam Fox is interviewed by Andrew Marr, and of course he can't stop asking about the bullsh1t Lord Ashcroft story that New Labour have been pushing, in an attempt to deflect from New Labour's destruction of the United Kingdom economically, socially, and politically. Recorded from Andrew Marr Show, 07 March 2010.
- published: 07 Mar 2010
- views: 1054
- author: liarpoliticians
wonderful Criminals by Liam fox and Rachel doyle
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me and rachel performing my song at school
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Liam Fox Speech 13.08.10
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- Duration: 13:49
- Updated: 16 Aug 2010
Earlier this week Defence Secretary Liam Fox shared his vision with British troops in Afghanistan - and on Friday he let the rest of us in on his thoughts about the future of the MOD. Dr Fox said Senior Military Officers will bear the brunt of efficiencies just as much as the rank and file. But more responsibility should rest on the Armed Forces themselves, as MOD bureaucracy is made leaner and meaner.
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Earlier this week Defence Secretary Liam Fox shared his vision with British troops in Afghanistan - and on Friday he let the rest of us in on his thoughts about the future of the MOD. Dr Fox said Senior Military Officers will bear the brunt of efficiencies just as much as the rank and file. But more responsibility should rest on the Armed Forces themselves, as MOD bureaucracy is made leaner and meaner.
- published: 16 Aug 2010
- views: 313
- author: BritishForcesNews
Australian help for PNG TB fight
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- Duration: 1:57
- Updated: 17 May 2012
Australia has helped Papua New Guinea take a major step towards controlling drug-resistant tuberculosis in the country's remote west. It should mean people will no longer have to travel to clinics in far North Queensland for treatment. PNG Correspondent Liam Fox reports from Daru Island.
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Australia has helped Papua New Guinea take a major step towards controlling drug-resistant tuberculosis in the country's remote west. It should mean people will no longer have to travel to clinics in far North Queensland for treatment. PNG Correspondent Liam Fox reports from Daru Island.
- published: 17 May 2012
- views: 219
- author: australianetworknews
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Louise Mensch defends Liam Fox on Have I Got News For You
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- Duration: 3:08
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Louise Mensch MP defends Liam Fox on Have I Got News For You, 21 October 2011. Louise Mensch likes to pretend Liam Fox was brought down by smears around his sexuality; its a story his allies hope will make it easier for him to return to front line politics in the future. In truth, the allegations against him were far more serious.
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Louise Mensch MP defends Liam Fox on Have I Got News For You, 21 October 2011. Louise Mensch likes to pretend Liam Fox was brought down by smears around his sexuality; its a story his allies hope will make it easier for him to return to front line politics in the future. In truth, the allegations against him were far more serious.
- published: 24 Oct 2011
- views: 39867
- author: stephennewton
Liam Fox Issues a Warning to America
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- Duration: 4:36
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Britain's Liam Fox has a warning for America: Fix the debt problem now or suffer the consequences of less power on the world stage. The former UK secretary of state for defense visited Heritage to explain why the America's debt is a national security issue.
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Britain's Liam Fox has a warning for America: Fix the debt problem now or suffer the consequences of less power on the world stage. The former UK secretary of state for defense visited Heritage to explain why the America's debt is a national security issue.
- published: 29 Feb 2012
- views: 4895
- author: HeritageFoundation
Dr Liam Fox MP: "Britain, the euro and the European Union"
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- Duration: 22:09
- Updated: 24 Sep 2012
Speaking to the TaxPayers' Alliance at the St. Stephen's Club, Westminster, on 2nd July 2012, Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP argued for a rebalancing of our relationship with the European Union and a referendum to decide any ultimate renegotiation. You can read the full text of the speech here - www.taxpayersalliance.com You can find out more about the TaxPayers' Alliance here - www.taxpayersalliance.com
http://wn.com/Dr_Liam_Fox_MP_Britain,_the_euro_and_the_European_Union
Speaking to the TaxPayers' Alliance at the St. Stephen's Club, Westminster, on 2nd July 2012, Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP argued for a rebalancing of our relationship with the European Union and a referendum to decide any ultimate renegotiation. You can read the full text of the speech here - www.taxpayersalliance.com You can find out more about the TaxPayers' Alliance here - www.taxpayersalliance.com
- published: 02 Jul 2012
- views: 860
- author: TaxpayersallianceUK
Tory Liam Fox interviewed by Andrew Marr (07Mar10)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:05
- Updated: 01 Mar 2012
Conservative Liam Fox is interviewed by Andrew Marr, and of course he can't stop asking about the bullsh1t Lord Ashcroft story that New Labour have been pushing, in an attempt to deflect from New Labour's destruction of the United Kingdom economically, socially, and politically. Recorded from Andrew Marr Show, 07 March 2010.
http://wn.com/Tory_Liam_Fox_interviewed_by_Andrew_Marr_07Mar10
Conservative Liam Fox is interviewed by Andrew Marr, and of course he can't stop asking about the bullsh1t Lord Ashcroft story that New Labour have been pushing, in an attempt to deflect from New Labour's destruction of the United Kingdom economically, socially, and politically. Recorded from Andrew Marr Show, 07 March 2010.
- published: 07 Mar 2010
- views: 1054
- author: liarpoliticians
British defence secretary Liam Fox resigns
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:45
- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox has resigned following scrutiny over his close friendship with a businessman with defence-related interests. A stream of news stories about Fox and his former flatmate and best man Adam Werritty, who met frequently with Fox and falsely identified himself as his adviser, had eroded the minister's credibility ahead of an inquiry into the affair that was due to be published within days. Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports from London
http://wn.com/British_defence_secretary_Liam_Fox_resigns
Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox has resigned following scrutiny over his close friendship with a businessman with defence-related interests. A stream of news stories about Fox and his former flatmate and best man Adam Werritty, who met frequently with Fox and falsely identified himself as his adviser, had eroded the minister's credibility ahead of an inquiry into the affair that was due to be published within days. Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports from London
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 3077
- author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Liam Fox under pressure
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 29 Mar 2012
David Amceron says he wants to see the initial findings of an investigation into Defence Secretary Liam Fox by Monday.
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox_under_pressure
David Amceron says he wants to see the initial findings of an investigation into Defence Secretary Liam Fox by Monday.
- published: 08 Oct 2011
- views: 1683
- author: Channel4News
Cameron's gay marriage plans are 'divisive', says Liam Fox
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:14
- Updated: 27 Jan 2013
BBC Daily Politics Show, 11 Jan 2013 -- discussion of the news that senior Tory MP, Liam Fox, says David Cameron's plans to redefine marriage are "divisive" and "ill thought through". Features Mike Judge, spokesman of the Coalition for Marriage.
http://wn.com/Cameron's_gay_marriage_plans_are_'divisive',_says_Liam_Fox
BBC Daily Politics Show, 11 Jan 2013 -- discussion of the news that senior Tory MP, Liam Fox, says David Cameron's plans to redefine marriage are "divisive" and "ill thought through". Features Mike Judge, spokesman of the Coalition for Marriage.
- published: 11 Jan 2013
- views: 4062
- author: CoalitionForMarriage
Chris Grayling dragged into Liam Fox/Adam Werritty scandal
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:02
- Updated: 13 Apr 2012
Employment minister Chris Grayling is dragged down into the Liam Fox/Adam Werritty scandal due to his role in Atlantic Bridge.
http://wn.com/Chris_Grayling_dragged_into_Liam_Fox_Adam_Werritty_scandal
Employment minister Chris Grayling is dragged down into the Liam Fox/Adam Werritty scandal due to his role in Atlantic Bridge.
- published: 10 Oct 2011
- views: 1298
- author: LF Forward
Andy McNab and Liam Fox speak at the Combat Stress Summit
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:43
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Andy McNab, former SAS soldier and author of "Bravo Two Zero", speaks alongside Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary, at the Conservative Party's Combat Stress Summit.
http://wn.com/Andy_McNab_and_Liam_Fox_speak_at_the_Combat_Stress_Summit
Andy McNab, former SAS soldier and author of "Bravo Two Zero", speaks alongside Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary, at the Conservative Party's Combat Stress Summit.
- published: 16 Jul 2009
- views: 20082
- author: webcameronuk
Liam Fox on Deterrence in the 21st Century
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 39:20
- Updated: 12 Apr 2012
The Secretary of State for Defence set out how the concept of deterrence will need updating for the 21st century in the context of an alliance structure and rules-based international system constructed in the last century. He gave further information on the Strategic Defence and Security Review being undertaken by the Government.
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox_on_Deterrence_in_the_21st_Century
The Secretary of State for Defence set out how the concept of deterrence will need updating for the 21st century in the context of an alliance structure and rules-based international system constructed in the last century. He gave further information on the Strategic Defence and Security Review being undertaken by the Government.
- published: 13 Jul 2010
- views: 675
- author: ChathamHouse10
Liam Fox on foreign holidays and his 'advisor' (07Oct11)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:18
- Updated: 04 Jan 2012
Conservative Liam Fox is being investigated over a number of allegations. Recorded from BBC Breakfast, 07 October 2011.
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox_on_foreign_holidays_and_his_'advisor'_07Oct11
Conservative Liam Fox is being investigated over a number of allegations. Recorded from BBC Breakfast, 07 October 2011.
- published: 07 Oct 2011
- views: 3110
- author: liarpoliticians
wonderful Criminals by Liam fox and Rachel doyle
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:41
- Updated: 05 Jun 2012
me and rachel performing my song at school
http://wn.com/wonderful_Criminals_by_Liam_fox_and_Rachel_doyle
Liam Fox Apologises Over Friend Access
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 14 Jul 2012
The Defence Secretary's revealed he met his close friend Adam Werritty 40 times at the Ministry of Defence and on trips abroad. Liam Fox admits he should have made sure the meetings were properly recorded to avoid accusations of wrongdoing. One of the more controversial ones involves Dubai businessman Harvey Boulter. He says he was under the impression Mr Werritty was a key member of Dr Fox's team.
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox_Apologises_Over_Friend_Access
The Defence Secretary's revealed he met his close friend Adam Werritty 40 times at the Ministry of Defence and on trips abroad. Liam Fox admits he should have made sure the meetings were properly recorded to avoid accusations of wrongdoing. One of the more controversial ones involves Dubai businessman Harvey Boulter. He says he was under the impression Mr Werritty was a key member of Dr Fox's team.
- published: 10 Oct 2011
- views: 475
- author: skynews
Liam Fox on Algeria hostages and Europe (20Jan13)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:13
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox. Recorded from BBC1 Sunday Politics, 20 January 2013.
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox_on_Algeria_hostages_and_Europe_20Jan13
Former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox. Recorded from BBC1 Sunday Politics, 20 January 2013.
- published: 20 Jan 2013
- views: 111
- author: liarpoliticians
Dr. Liam Fox talks about Stephen Harper
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:48
- Updated: 13 Jul 2012
Dr. Liam Fox, UK Conservative MP (Woodspring) and Shadow Secretary of Defence talks about Stephen Harper's leadership for Canada and the world.
http://wn.com/Dr_Liam_Fox_talks_about_Stephen_Harper
Dr. Liam Fox, UK Conservative MP (Woodspring) and Shadow Secretary of Defence talks about Stephen Harper's leadership for Canada and the world.
- published: 02 Sep 2008
- views: 1725
- author: Stephen Taylor
Liam Fox ,Adam Werritty attends meeting with Sri Lankan president
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:04
- Updated: 31 Oct 2011
www.eelamview.com TV footage of Adam Werritty meeting Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, on a visit to London last December Liam Fox, Adam Werritty, and the unexplained hotel meetings
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox_,Adam_Werritty_attends_meeting_with_Sri_Lankan_president
www.eelamview.com TV footage of Adam Werritty meeting Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, on a visit to London last December Liam Fox, Adam Werritty, and the unexplained hotel meetings
- published: 09 Oct 2011
- views: 699
- author: eelamview
Liam Fox secures Northwood NATO headquarters 09.06.11
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:33
- Updated: 16 Mar 2012
Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox has secured the future of Northwood; a key NATO command headquarters. The headquarters is a major maritime control centre tasked with directing a range of NATO operations; principally counter piracy missions off the coast of Somalia. Speaking at the NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels, Dr. Fox said: "As one of the leading contributors to NATO operations it is only right that NATO retains a command presence on British soil. Agreement was on this matter was a fundamental objective for the UK Government and is a major step forward for NATO reform.
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox_secures_Northwood_NATO_headquarters_090611
Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox has secured the future of Northwood; a key NATO command headquarters. The headquarters is a major maritime control centre tasked with directing a range of NATO operations; principally counter piracy missions off the coast of Somalia. Speaking at the NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels, Dr. Fox said: "As one of the leading contributors to NATO operations it is only right that NATO retains a command presence on British soil. Agreement was on this matter was a fundamental objective for the UK Government and is a major step forward for NATO reform.
- published: 10 Jun 2011
- views: 499
- author: BritishForcesNews
Liam Fox Actors Showreel
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:00
- Updated: 19 Jan 2013
Liam Fox Actors showreel, includes clips from: Coronation Street Acting Up Dinnerladies North Square Cold Feet The Van Boys Contact Jonathan Arun Ltd. 0207 840 0123
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox_Actors_Showreel
Liam Fox Actors showreel, includes clips from: Coronation Street Acting Up Dinnerladies North Square Cold Feet The Van Boys Contact Jonathan Arun Ltd. 0207 840 0123
- published: 23 Jun 2008
- views: 1872
- author: foxpahigman
Liam Fox, time for UK-EU referendum is now (02July12)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 17:26
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Conservative MP Liam Fox gives a speech where he says the time is now for a UK referendum on being in or out of the EUSSR, a demand no British prime minster is prepared to give because they are puppets of the New World Order, and they want worldwide Communism. Recorded from Sky News, 02 July 2012.
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox,_time_for_UK-EU_referendum_is_now_02July12
Conservative MP Liam Fox gives a speech where he says the time is now for a UK referendum on being in or out of the EUSSR, a demand no British prime minster is prepared to give because they are puppets of the New World Order, and they want worldwide Communism. Recorded from Sky News, 02 July 2012.
- published: 02 Jul 2012
- views: 228
- author: liarpoliticians2
Liam Fox: We must treat our armed forces with the respect they deserve
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:42
- Updated: 03 Jan 2012
Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary, explains how a Conservative government would ensure members of the armed forces, who make huge sacrifices for the nation, are treated with the respect they deserve.
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox_We_must_treat_our_armed_forces_with_the_respect_they_deserve
Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary, explains how a Conservative government would ensure members of the armed forces, who make huge sacrifices for the nation, are treated with the respect they deserve.
- published: 14 Nov 2008
- views: 4638
- author: webcameronuk
Liam Fox row Werritty 'described as a special adviser'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:11
- Updated: 18 Oct 2011
11 October 2011 Last updated at 16:35 Help A businessman who met the defence secretary through Adam Werritty says the meeting would not have taken place if he had known Mr Werritty was not connected to the MoD. The Porton Group's Harvey Boulter told the BBC he met Mr Werrity in April in Dubai, and at the end of the "pre-planned" meeting, Liam Fox "walked through the lobby... [Mr Werritty] introduced me to him, I shook his hand". Civil servants are investigating the conduct of the defence secretary and are expected to look at why Mr Werritty accompanied him on many overseas visits - despite having no official role. www.bbc.co.uk
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox_row_Werritty_'described_as_a_special_adviser'
11 October 2011 Last updated at 16:35 Help A businessman who met the defence secretary through Adam Werritty says the meeting would not have taken place if he had known Mr Werritty was not connected to the MoD. The Porton Group's Harvey Boulter told the BBC he met Mr Werrity in April in Dubai, and at the end of the "pre-planned" meeting, Liam Fox "walked through the lobby... [Mr Werritty] introduced me to him, I shook his hand". Civil servants are investigating the conduct of the defence secretary and are expected to look at why Mr Werritty accompanied him on many overseas visits - despite having no official role. www.bbc.co.uk
- published: 11 Oct 2011
- views: 242
- author: BrenR1958
Liam Fox Speech 13.08.10
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 13:49
- Updated: 16 Aug 2010
Earlier this week Defence Secretary Liam Fox shared his vision with British troops in Afghanistan - and on Friday he let the rest of us in on his thoughts about the future of the MOD. Dr Fox said Senior Military Officers will bear the brunt of efficiencies just as much as the rank and file. But more responsibility should rest on the Armed Forces themselves, as MOD bureaucracy is made leaner and meaner.
http://wn.com/Liam_Fox_Speech_130810
Earlier this week Defence Secretary Liam Fox shared his vision with British troops in Afghanistan - and on Friday he let the rest of us in on his thoughts about the future of the MOD. Dr Fox said Senior Military Officers will bear the brunt of efficiencies just as much as the rank and file. But more responsibility should rest on the Armed Forces themselves, as MOD bureaucracy is made leaner and meaner.
- published: 16 Aug 2010
- views: 313
- author: BritishForcesNews
Heavy army cuts confirmed
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:34
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
Defence Secretary Liam Fox has confirmed the British Army will shrink by 20000, with far more reserves. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com
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Defence Secretary Liam Fox has confirmed the British Army will shrink by 20000, with far more reserves. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com
- published: 18 Jul 2011
- views: 2897
- author: itnnews
3:08
Louise Mensch defends Liam Fox on Have I Got News For You
Louise Mensch MP defends Liam Fox on Have I Got News For You, 21 October 2011. Louise Mens...
published: 24 Oct 2011
author: stephennewton
Louise Mensch defends Liam Fox on Have I Got News For You
Louise Mensch MP defends Liam Fox on Have I Got News For You, 21 October 2011. Louise Mensch likes to pretend Liam Fox was brought down by smears around his sexuality; its a story his allies hope will make it easier for him to return to front line politics in the future. In truth, the allegations against him were far more serious.
- published: 24 Oct 2011
- views: 39867
- author: stephennewton
4:36
Liam Fox Issues a Warning to America
Britain's Liam Fox has a warning for America: Fix the debt problem now or suffer the conse...
published: 29 Feb 2012
author: HeritageFoundation
Liam Fox Issues a Warning to America
Britain's Liam Fox has a warning for America: Fix the debt problem now or suffer the consequences of less power on the world stage. The former UK secretary of state for defense visited Heritage to explain why the America's debt is a national security issue.
- published: 29 Feb 2012
- views: 4895
- author: HeritageFoundation
22:09
Dr Liam Fox MP: "Britain, the euro and the European Union"
Speaking to the TaxPayers' Alliance at the St. Stephen's Club, Westminster, on 2nd July 20...
published: 02 Jul 2012
author: TaxpayersallianceUK
Dr Liam Fox MP: "Britain, the euro and the European Union"
Speaking to the TaxPayers' Alliance at the St. Stephen's Club, Westminster, on 2nd July 2012, Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP argued for a rebalancing of our relationship with the European Union and a referendum to decide any ultimate renegotiation. You can read the full text of the speech here - www.taxpayersalliance.com You can find out more about the TaxPayers' Alliance here - www.taxpayersalliance.com
- published: 02 Jul 2012
- views: 860
- author: TaxpayersallianceUK
8:05
Tory Liam Fox interviewed by Andrew Marr (07Mar10)
Conservative Liam Fox is interviewed by Andrew Marr, and of course he can't stop asking ab...
published: 07 Mar 2010
author: liarpoliticians
Tory Liam Fox interviewed by Andrew Marr (07Mar10)
Conservative Liam Fox is interviewed by Andrew Marr, and of course he can't stop asking about the bullsh1t Lord Ashcroft story that New Labour have been pushing, in an attempt to deflect from New Labour's destruction of the United Kingdom economically, socially, and politically. Recorded from Andrew Marr Show, 07 March 2010.
- published: 07 Mar 2010
- views: 1054
- author: liarpoliticians
1:45
British defence secretary Liam Fox resigns
Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox has resigned following scrutiny over his close friend...
published: 14 Oct 2011
author: AlJazeeraEnglish
British defence secretary Liam Fox resigns
Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox has resigned following scrutiny over his close friendship with a businessman with defence-related interests. A stream of news stories about Fox and his former flatmate and best man Adam Werritty, who met frequently with Fox and falsely identified himself as his adviser, had eroded the minister's credibility ahead of an inquiry into the affair that was due to be published within days. Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports from London
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 3077
- author: AlJazeeraEnglish
3:38
Liam Fox under pressure
David Amceron says he wants to see the initial findings of an investigation into Defence S...
published: 08 Oct 2011
author: Channel4News
Liam Fox under pressure
David Amceron says he wants to see the initial findings of an investigation into Defence Secretary Liam Fox by Monday.
- published: 08 Oct 2011
- views: 1683
- author: Channel4News
8:14
Cameron's gay marriage plans are 'divisive', says Liam Fox
BBC Daily Politics Show, 11 Jan 2013 -- discussion of the news that senior Tory MP, Liam F...
published: 11 Jan 2013
author: CoalitionForMarriage
Cameron's gay marriage plans are 'divisive', says Liam Fox
BBC Daily Politics Show, 11 Jan 2013 -- discussion of the news that senior Tory MP, Liam Fox, says David Cameron's plans to redefine marriage are "divisive" and "ill thought through". Features Mike Judge, spokesman of the Coalition for Marriage.
- published: 11 Jan 2013
- views: 4062
- author: CoalitionForMarriage
6:02
Chris Grayling dragged into Liam Fox/Adam Werritty scandal
Employment minister Chris Grayling is dragged down into the Liam Fox/Adam Werritty scandal...
published: 10 Oct 2011
author: LF Forward
Chris Grayling dragged into Liam Fox/Adam Werritty scandal
Employment minister Chris Grayling is dragged down into the Liam Fox/Adam Werritty scandal due to his role in Atlantic Bridge.
- published: 10 Oct 2011
- views: 1298
- author: LF Forward
2:43
Andy McNab and Liam Fox speak at the Combat Stress Summit
Andy McNab, former SAS soldier and author of "Bravo Two Zero", speaks alongside Liam Fox, ...
published: 16 Jul 2009
author: webcameronuk
Andy McNab and Liam Fox speak at the Combat Stress Summit
Andy McNab, former SAS soldier and author of "Bravo Two Zero", speaks alongside Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary, at the Conservative Party's Combat Stress Summit.
- published: 16 Jul 2009
- views: 20082
- author: webcameronuk
39:20
Liam Fox on Deterrence in the 21st Century
The Secretary of State for Defence set out how the concept of deterrence will need updatin...
published: 13 Jul 2010
author: ChathamHouse10
Liam Fox on Deterrence in the 21st Century
The Secretary of State for Defence set out how the concept of deterrence will need updating for the 21st century in the context of an alliance structure and rules-based international system constructed in the last century. He gave further information on the Strategic Defence and Security Review being undertaken by the Government.
- published: 13 Jul 2010
- views: 675
- author: ChathamHouse10
2:18
Liam Fox on foreign holidays and his 'advisor' (07Oct11)
Conservative Liam Fox is being investigated over a number of allegations. Recorded from BB...
published: 07 Oct 2011
author: liarpoliticians
Liam Fox on foreign holidays and his 'advisor' (07Oct11)
Conservative Liam Fox is being investigated over a number of allegations. Recorded from BBC Breakfast, 07 October 2011.
- published: 07 Oct 2011
- views: 3110
- author: liarpoliticians
3:39
Liam Fox Apologises Over Friend Access
The Defence Secretary's revealed he met his close friend Adam Werritty 40 times at the Min...
published: 10 Oct 2011
author: skynews
Liam Fox Apologises Over Friend Access
The Defence Secretary's revealed he met his close friend Adam Werritty 40 times at the Ministry of Defence and on trips abroad. Liam Fox admits he should have made sure the meetings were properly recorded to avoid accusations of wrongdoing. One of the more controversial ones involves Dubai businessman Harvey Boulter. He says he was under the impression Mr Werritty was a key member of Dr Fox's team.
- published: 10 Oct 2011
- views: 475
- author: skynews
9:13
Liam Fox on Algeria hostages and Europe (20Jan13)
Former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox. Recorded from BBC1 Sunday Politics, 20 Jan...
published: 20 Jan 2013
author: liarpoliticians
Liam Fox on Algeria hostages and Europe (20Jan13)
Former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox. Recorded from BBC1 Sunday Politics, 20 January 2013.
- published: 20 Jan 2013
- views: 111
- author: liarpoliticians
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53:58
The Mad Ones
Here's the full flick. Enjoy 53 minutes of madness from the Winter of 2011-2012.
The Mad...
published: 11 Oct 2012
author: Liam Gallagher
The Mad Ones
Here's the full flick. Enjoy 53 minutes of madness from the Winter of 2011-2012.
The Mad Ones is a a web-based video project by Liam Gallagher. Inspired by the Beat Generation and specifically the writings of Jack Kerouac, The Mad Ones followed the freaks, all winter long. This is a movie about snowboarding and some Beatniks.
Featuring: Forest Bailey, Forrest Burki, Patrick McCarthy, Shaun McKay, Wyatt Stasinos, Nick Russell, Kael Martin, Bryan Fox, Mark Landvik, Lucas Debari, Nick Ennen, Scott Blum, Dan Liedahl, Alex Beebe, Will Lavigne, Jamie Lynn, Sebi Geiger, Marco Feichtner, Atsushi Hasegawa, Kohei Kudo, Austin Hironaka and many more.
Supported by: K2 Snowboarding, Drink Water, 686 and Anon.
A limited run of DVDs will also be available for $15.00 in the coming weeks.
3:14
The Mad Ones: Teaser
"They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing a...
published: 20 Feb 2012
author: Liam Gallagher
The Mad Ones: Teaser
"They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
-Jack Kerouac, "On The Road"
The Mad Ones is a a web-based video project by Liam Gallagher. Inspired by the Beat Generation and specifically the writings of Jack Kerouac, The Mad Ones will follow the freaks, all winter long. Web flicks will be released every Monday through May. Some will be action edits, others about odd balls or oddities seen, weird experiences or whatever else happens to happen. Then, in September it'll all be mashed into a free-for-download movie.
Featuring: Forest Bailey, Forrest Burki, Patrick McCarthy, Shaun McKay, Wyatt Stasinos, Nick Russell, Scotty Wittlake, Bryan Fox, Austin Smith, Keegan Valaika, Mark Landvik, Blair Habenicht, Lucas Debari, Nick Ennen Matt Edgers, Kael Martin and many more.
Supported by: K2 Snowboarding, Drink Water, 686 and Anon.
Music:
"Something Like You"
Can't Get Enough
Sugar Sugar Sugar
1:59
The Mad Ones: Here and Now
It's all happening now. Here's a few from the last three days at Mt. Baker. Dig the presen...
published: 28 Feb 2012
author: Liam Gallagher
The Mad Ones: Here and Now
It's all happening now. Here's a few from the last three days at Mt. Baker. Dig the present.
The Mad Ones is a a web-based video project by Liam Gallagher. Inspired by the Beat Generation and specifically the writings of Jack Kerouac, The Mad Ones will follow the freaks, all winter long. Web flicks will be released every Monday through May. Some will be action edits, others about odd balls or oddities seen, weird experiences or whatever else happens to happen. Then, next September it'll all be mashed into a free-for-download movie.
Featuring: Forest Bailey, Forrest Burki, Patrick McCarthy, Shaun McKay, Wyatt Stasinos, Nick Russell, Scotty Wittlake, Bryan Fox, Austin Smith, Keegan Valaika, Mark Landvik, Blair Habenicht, Nick Ennen, Lucas Debari, Matt Edgers, Skylar Thornton, Alex Yoder, Kael Martin and many more.
Supported by: K2 Snowboarding, Drink Water, 686 and Anon.
47:26
UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox
Dr Liam Fox MP delivers his first speech as UK Secretary of State for Defence...
published: 15 Jun 2010
author: RUSI Online
UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox
Dr Liam Fox MP delivers his first speech as UK Secretary of State for Defence
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1:48
Dr. Liam Fox talks about Stephen Harper
Dr. Liam Fox, UK Conservative MP (Woodspring) and Shadow Secretary of Defence talks about ...
published: 02 Sep 2008
author: Stephen Taylor
Dr. Liam Fox talks about Stephen Harper
Dr. Liam Fox, UK Conservative MP (Woodspring) and Shadow Secretary of Defence talks about Stephen Harper's leadership for Canada and the world.
- published: 02 Sep 2008
- views: 1725
- author: Stephen Taylor
8:04
Liam Fox ,Adam Werritty attends meeting with Sri Lankan president
www.eelamview.com TV footage of Adam Werritty meeting Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan pr...
published: 09 Oct 2011
author: eelamview
Liam Fox ,Adam Werritty attends meeting with Sri Lankan president
www.eelamview.com TV footage of Adam Werritty meeting Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, on a visit to London last December Liam Fox, Adam Werritty, and the unexplained hotel meetings
- published: 09 Oct 2011
- views: 699
- author: eelamview
2:33
Liam Fox secures Northwood NATO headquarters 09.06.11
Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox has secured the future of Northwood; a key NATO command hea...
published: 10 Jun 2011
author: BritishForcesNews
Liam Fox secures Northwood NATO headquarters 09.06.11
Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox has secured the future of Northwood; a key NATO command headquarters. The headquarters is a major maritime control centre tasked with directing a range of NATO operations; principally counter piracy missions off the coast of Somalia. Speaking at the NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels, Dr. Fox said: "As one of the leading contributors to NATO operations it is only right that NATO retains a command presence on British soil. Agreement was on this matter was a fundamental objective for the UK Government and is a major step forward for NATO reform.
- published: 10 Jun 2011
- views: 499
- author: BritishForcesNews
5:00
Liam Fox Actors Showreel
Liam Fox Actors showreel, includes clips from: Coronation Street Acting Up Dinnerladies No...
published: 23 Jun 2008
author: foxpahigman
Liam Fox Actors Showreel
Liam Fox Actors showreel, includes clips from: Coronation Street Acting Up Dinnerladies North Square Cold Feet The Van Boys Contact Jonathan Arun Ltd. 0207 840 0123
- published: 23 Jun 2008
- views: 1872
- author: foxpahigman
photo: AP / Ronald Mendes-Agencia RBS
27 Jan 2013
Tweet. Police say at least 232 people have died in a fire that swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil. Around 117 others were injured after the blaze broke out while a band was performing at the Kiss club in the southern city of Santa Maria at about 2am (local time). Police earlier said more than 245 people had died in the fire. It is thought pyrotechnics being used for the concert may have caused the blaze ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
photo: AP / Hossam Ali
26 Jan 2013
An Egyptian court has handed down 21 death sentences in connection with the deadly riot last year at a football stadium in Port Said located along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The defendants sentenced on Saturday are mostly members of the "Ultras," die-hard football fans who support Port Said's al-Masry squad ... Al-Masry fans stormed the pitch after their team won, throwing stones, bottles and fireworks at al-Ahly supporters....(size: 17.2Kb)
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25 Jan 2013
At least one in five people, including half of schoolchildren, were infected with swine flu during the first year of the pandemic in 2009, according to data from 19 countries. It is thought the virus killed 200,000 people around the world. A World Health Organization-led study looked for evidence of the body's immune system fighting the virus ... Anti-bodies ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
photo: US Army / Edward N. Johnson
25 Jan 2013
By Charles Armstrong, Special to CNN. Editor’s note. Charles Armstrong is the director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University. The views expressed are his own. Anyone who has followed North Korean affairs for the last several years (or the last two decades) could have predicted North Korea’s defiant response to the U.N ... sanctions not by giving up missiles and nukes, but ratcheting up the rhetoric ... More from GPS ... Post by ... ... ....(size: 15.8Kb)
BBC News
25 Jan 2013
The bill has divided Conservatives, with former Defence Secretary Liam Fox recently describing it as "ill thought through and constitutionally wrong" ... Mr Fox has said the proposals will put the established church in an "anomalous and absurd" position. In a letter to constituents that was subsequently made public, Mr Fox said ......(size: 3.9Kb)
The Daily Mail
24 Jan 2013
IMDb
24 Jan 2013
The actor triumphed in the 'Best Newcomer' category, beating Emmerdale's Liam Fox, Coronation Street's Natalie Gumede and Hollyoaks' Joseph Thompson ... I really didn't ... - By Catriona Wightman. ....(size: 0.9Kb)
The Daily Mail
24 Jan 2013
The Guardian
24 Jan 2013
The letter from Charles Kennedy, Paddy Ashdown et al (23 January) is patronising and silly. The electorate was promised a referendum by Tony Blair and knows it ... David Harris. London. • So Liam Fox is satisfied with David Cameron's referendum speech (Report, 21 January) ... Anthony Clarke. Loughborough, Leicestershire ... Vive le pong!. David Reed. London. • Europe does not require destructive bullies in London ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)
Digital Spy
24 Jan 2013
David Witts with his girlfriend after learning of his 'Most Popular Newcomer' award ... "Don't boo! That's rude ... Witts beat Emmerdale's Liam Fox, Coronation Street's Natalie Gumede and Hollyoaks actor Joseph Thompson to the 'Most Popular Newcomer' award, which was voted for by the public ... 1 of 16 ... 'EastEnders' Kim Fox forgives Denise ... David Witts, Natalie Gumede, Liam Fox, Joseph Thompson, Showbiz, Soaps, EastEnders, National TV Awards 2013....(size: 9.9Kb)
Digital Spy
24 Jan 2013
However, EastEnders' David Witts was handed the 'Best Newcomer' award, ahead of Natalie Gumede - who plays Halsall's on-screen fiancée Kirsty in Coronation Street - Emmerdale's Liam Fox and Joseph Thompson from Hollyoaks ... Photo gallery - National Television Awards winners 2013. ... 1 of 16. Copyright ... More. Alan Halsall, David Witts, Natalie Gumede, Liam Fox, Joseph Thompson, Ant & Dec, Joanna Lumley, TV, Soaps, National TV Awards 2013. Next....(size: 9.0Kb)
Irish Times
24 Jan 2013
MARK HENNESSY ... The biggest challenge facing the UK is economic, not its EU membership terms, said Mr Clegg ... Eurosceptic praise . However, Mr Cameron has received plaudits from Conservative Eurosceptic MPs, with one, former defence secretary Liam Fox, saying that it was a speech “we’ve been waiting for a British prime minister to say for decades” ... Salmond delighted ... ....(size: 2.8Kb)
Digital Spy
24 Jan 2013
Dermot O'Leary is handing out the National TV Awards gongs at London's O2 tonight (January 23), which celebrates the best and most popular TV shows of the past year. Digital Spy presents the full list of 2013 National TV Awards winners - the list will be updated as the winners are announced live at the ceremony. ... Paul O'Grady ... Drama ... Liam Fox (Emmerdale) ... Scanlan, Adam Woodyatt, Liam Dox, Natalie Gumede, Joseph Thomson, David Witts, TV ... 1....(size: 10.4Kb)
Real Clear Politics
24 Jan 2013
Government decisions to reduce the defence budget and lower strategic ambitions have prompted the British Army to undertake its most radical reorganisation for 50 years ... Budget stringency ... Under the review, UK defence spending was reduced by 8% in inflation-adjusted terms over four years ... In July 2011, then-defence secretary Liam Fox announced the army's size would be reduced by 20% by 2020, from 102,000 to 82,000 people ... 1 . 2 ... ....(size: 6.3Kb)
IMDb
23 Jan 2013
IMDb
23 Jan 2013
... plays Halsall's on-screen fiancée Kirsty in Coronation Street - Emmerdale's Liam Fox and Joseph Thompson from Hollyoaks....(size: 0.7Kb)
Digital Spy
23 Jan 2013
Dermot O'Leary is handing out the National TV Awards gongs at London's O2 tonight (January 23), which celebrates the best and most popular TV shows of the past year. Digital Spy presents the full list of 2013 National TV Awards winners - the list will be updated as the winners are announced live at the ceremony. ... Paul O'Grady ... Drama ... Liam Fox (Emmerdale) ... Scanlan, Adam Woodyatt, Liam Dox, Natalie Gumede, Joseph Thomson, David Witts, TV ... ....(size: 9.9Kb)
This article is about the British MP. For the Scottish footballer, see Liam Fox (footballer).
| The Right Honourable Liam Fox MP |
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| Secretary of State for Defence | |
| In office 12 May 2010 – 14 October 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Bob Ainsworth |
| Succeeded by | Philip Hammond |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Defence | |
| In office 6 December 2005 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Michael Ancram |
| Succeeded by | Bob Ainsworth |
| Shadow Foreign Secretary | |
| In office 10 May 2005 – 6 December 2005 |
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| Leader | Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | Michael Ancram |
| Succeeded by | William Hague |
| Chairman of the Conservative Party | |
| In office 6 November 2003 – 4 May 2005 Served with The Lord Saatchi |
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| Leader | Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | Theresa May |
| Succeeded by | Francis Maude |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Health | |
| In office 15 June 1999 – 6 November 2003 |
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| Leader | William Hague Iain Duncan Smith |
| Preceded by | Ann Widdecombe |
| Succeeded by | Tim Yeo |
| Member of Parliament for North Somerset Woodspring (1992–2010) |
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 9 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Created |
| Majority | 7,862 (13.6%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1961-09-22) 22 September 1961 (age 50) East Kilbride, Scotland |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Jesme Baird |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Profession | Physician |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | Official website |
Liam Fox (born 22 September 1961) is a British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament for North Somerset, and former Secretary of State for Defence.
Fox studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and worked as a GP and Civilian Army Medical Officer[1] before being elected as an MP in 1992. After holding several ministerial roles in John Major's Conservative government, Fox served as Constitutional Affairs Spokesman (1998–1999), Shadow Health Secretary (1999–2003), Conservative Party chairman (2003–05), Shadow Foreign Secretary (2005) and Shadow Defence Secretary (2005–10).
Fox stood unsuccessfully in the 2005 Conservative leadership election. In 2010, he was appointed Secretary of State for Defence, a position from which he resigned on 14 October 2011 over allegations that he had given a close friend, lobbyist Adam Werritty, access to the Ministry of Defence and allowed him to join official trips overseas.[2]
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Early life[link]
Fox was born and raised in East Kilbride, Scotland and brought up in a council house[3] that his parents later bought. Along with his brother and two sisters he was educated in the state sector; he attended St. Bride's High School. He studied medicine at the University of Glasgow Medical School, graduating with MB ChB degrees in 1983. Fox is a general practitioner (he was a GP in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, before his election to Parliament), a former Civilian Army Medical Officer and Divisional Surgeon with St John Ambulance. He is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners.[4]
Whilst studying at the University of Glasgow, he was a member of the Dialectic Society and became president of the Glasgow University Conservative Association. From there he advanced through the Conservative ranks. Fox contested the Hairmyres Ward of East Kilbride District Council in May 1984, coming second – 210 votes – to the incumbent Labour Councillor, Ed McKenna.
While studying medicine at Glasgow University in the early 1980s, Fox resigned his position on the university's Students Representative Council (SRC) in protest at the council passing a motion condemning the decision of the university's Glasgow University Union (GUU) not to allow a gay students society to join the union. The SRC motion called both the union's decision and the explanations given for it "bigoted". The GUU maintained its stance regardless and the controversy was reported in the national media while leading to many other university student unions up and down the country, including Edinburgh, cutting ties with their Glasgow counterparts. Explaining his decision to resign from the SRC and support the GUU's position, Fox was quoted as saying "I'm actually quite liberal when it comes to sexual matters. I just don't want the gays flaunting it in front of me, which is what they would do." When asked about the controversy in 2008, Fox remarked that "fortunately most of us have progressed from the days when we were students more than a quarter of a century ago".[5]
Member of Parliament[link]
His first attempt to get elected as an MP for a Scottish constituency ended in failure when he contested Roxburgh and Berwickshire in the 1987 general election. Thereafter, he sought and won nomination for the English constituency of Woodspring and was successful in being elected MP for that constituency at the 1992 general election.
In government[link]
A little over a year after his election in 1992, Fox was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary, Michael Howard, in June 1993. Thereafter, in July 1994, he was appointed an Assistant Government Whip. Following a limited government reshuffle in November 1995, he was appointed a Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury – a Senior Government Whip. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1996 to 1997.
In 1996, he brokered an accord in Sri Lanka, called the Fox Peace Plan, between Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge’s PA and the opposition UNP of Ranil Wickremesinghe, on a bipartisan approach for ending the ethnic war. However, little has happened since then to suggest that the various parties have acted in good faith in the interests of peace.[6]
In opposition[link]
Shadow Cabinet[link]
In June 1997, Fox was appointed Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Constitutional Affairs and joined the Shadow Cabinet in 1998 as the principal spokesman for Constitutional Affairs. Between 1999 and 2003 he was the Shadow Secretary of State for Health.
In November 2003, Fox was appointed campaign manager for Michael Howard following the no-confidence vote against the Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith. Fox was made co-chairman of the party by Michael Howard when he became party leader in November 2003. After the 2005 general election he was promoted within the Shadow Cabinet to become Shadow Foreign Secretary. On 7 December 2005 he was moved to Defence by new Leader of the Opposition David Cameron MP.
Leadership bid[link]
In September 2005, Fox announced he would join the contest to be the next leader of the Conservative party. His campaign theme for the 2005 leadership race was based on the "broken society" theme, which he says Conservatives can address by returning emphasis to marriage and reforming welfare. In the initial ballot of Conservative MPs, on 18 October, he gained enough support (42 votes) to avoid coming last, and put himself through to the second ballot to be held two days later.[7] He was eliminated with 51 votes in third place behind David Cameron (90 votes) and David Davis (57 votes). Cameron, who eventually won the leadership election, gave Fox the role of Shadow Defence Secretary.
Secretary of State for Defence[link]
He was appointed as Secretary of State for Defence in the cabinet of David Cameron on 12 May 2010 and that weekend flew out to Afghanistan with the Foreign Secretary, William Hague and the International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell to see first hand the issues facing the troops based there.
In July 2010 he said that the dire state of the public finances meant the Armed Forces could no longer be equipped to cover every conceivable danger. He said that the strongest signal that it will have to give up one or more of these capabilities, which have been maintained at the same time as contributing to collective security pacts such as NATO. “We don’t have the money as a country to protect ourselves against every potential future threat,” he said. “We have to look at where we think the real risks will come from, where the real threats will come from and we need to deal with that accordingly. The Russians are not going to come over the European plain any day soon,” he added. Dr Fox’s admission casts doubt on the future of the 25,000 troops currently stationed in Germany. The Defence Secretary has previously said that he hoped to withdraw them at some point, leaving Britain without a presence in the country for the first time since 1945.[8]
The Ministry of Defence is facing budget cuts of up to 8% over the next five years, according to some analysts, and the department is already grappling with a £37bn shortfall on programmes it has signed up to. The results of the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) are expected around the same time as the cross-Government comprehensive spending review, which will be published on 20 October. The defence industry is very concerned that the review is being led by budget concerns rather than military need. Speaking in September 2010 Fox said on the possibility of sharing aircraft carriers with the French Navy that "I think it is unrealistic to share an aircraft carrier but, in other areas like tactical lift we can see what we can do," Liam Fox, said at a meeting in Paris with Herve Morin. "I can't deny that there is an element of urgency added by budget concerns."[9]
In September 2010 Fox in a private letter to David Cameron, Fox refuses to back any substantial reduction in the Armed Forces. He says it risks seriously damaging troops’ morale. The letter was written the night before a National Security Council (NSC) meeting on the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR). In the letter Fox wrote that: "Frankly this process is looking less and less defensible as a proper SDSR (Strategic Defence and Strategy Review) and more like a "super CSR" (Comprehensive Spending Review). If it continues on its current trajectory it is likely to have grave political consequences for us". Fox continued saying that "Our decisions today will limit severely the options available to this and all future governments. The range of operations that we can do today we will simply not be able to do in the future. In particular, it would place at risk"[10]
In February 2011 Fox launched an attack on “ballooning” spending in his own department as figures show projects are running at least £8.8 billion over budget. The top 15 major procurement projects are now running at £8.8 billion over budget and, between them, are delayed by a total of 32 years. That includes the A400M transporter aircraft order that is £603 million over budget and six years behind schedule. He will criticise what he calls a “conspiracy of optimism based on poor cost-estimation, unrealistic timescales” at the MoD and in industry. “These practices in the MOD would simply not be tolerated in the private sector, and they will no longer be tolerated in the MoD.” A “new, frank and honest relationship between Government and industry” is needed and Mr Fox will signal that change must come.[11]
In March 2011 Fox defended the decision to make 11,000 redundancies in the armed forces, insisting that personnel who have recently returned from Afghanistan will not be sacked. Cameron has conceded that axing around 5,000 personnel from the army, 3,300 from the Navy and 2,700 from the RAF will be difficult for those affected. Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) set out plans for reducing the size of the armed forces by 17,000 in total. Some of that number will be met by not replacing people who were retiring or leaving for other reasons. Defence officials said 11,000 personnel still face being redundant on a compulsory or voluntary basis. Dr Fox said it was essential that service personnel were made "fully aware of the options available and the timescales involved". "That means that a timetable needs to be adhered to for the sake of themselves and their families," he said. "It would simply be wrong to alter that timetable for the convenience of the Government.[12]
In light of the 2011 Libyan civil war, Fox warned that Libya could end up split in two as Colonel Muammar Gaddafi unleashed the full fury of his military arsenal, sending warplanes and ground troops to attack rebel-held positions across the country. "We could see the Gaddafi forces centred around Tripoli," Dr Fox said. "We could see a de facto partition of the country."[13]
In May 2011 Dr Fox, opposed plans to sharply increase Britain's aid budget, in a direct challenge to David Cameron's authority. In a leaked letter to the Prime Minister, Dr Fox said he could not accept plans to increase the development budget to 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product. The aid pledge, made in the Conservative election manifesto last year, was at the heart of Mr Cameron's attempts to change his party's image. It has gained opponents among Right–wing Tories, many of whom voted for Dr Fox when he fought Mr Cameron for the party leadership in 2005. "I cannot support the proposal in its current form," Dr Fox told the Prime Minister. Dr Fox suggested that development funding should be diverted to the defence budget, writing that reneging on the aid pledge would release more public money to be spent on "other activities or programmes rather than aid". The letter is the second significant private message from Dr Fox to Mr Cameron that has leaked. Last year, The Daily Telegraph obtained a letter in which the Defence Secretary warned the Prime Minister that "draconian" cuts in the defence budget could cripple the Armed Forces. Dr Fox's rejection of the aid commitment and the leaking of his letter will fuel suspicion among Mr Cameron's allies that the Defence Secretary is trying to undermine the Prime Minister and may one day seek the Conservative leadership again. He finished third in the 2005 contest, behind Mr Cameron and David Davis.[14]
After negative comments by Sir Simon Bryant and Sir Mark Stanhope, Secretary Fox said admirals and air marshals who have voiced concerns were giving strength to Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. He also warned that high-ranking members of the Armed Forces were facing the sack because the Government wanted to reduce bureaucracy by cutting “the star count”. The Daily Telegraph has learnt that the redundancies will include up 500 starred officers, equivalent to the rank of an Army brigadier and above. Dr Fox said: “We must be very careful, those of us who have authority in defence, when discussing the sustainability of a mission. People’s lives are at stake and there can only be one message that goes out on Libya.” Admiral Sir John “Sandy” Woodward, a former deputy chief of the defence staff, suggested Dr Fox was trying to blame military chiefs for “his own failings”. He said: “Of course the service chiefs should not be talking outside the MoD, but when politicians have got it so wrong they have no other choice.”[15]
Levene report[link]
On 27 June 2011 Fox announced that Baron Levene had completed his report[16] on the reform of the MoD and suggested that will cut the number of senior officers and could also lead to ministerial posts being axed. The army, navy and air force will each be run by a single chief. Currently, the services have two commanders, one in charge of strategy, the second in charge of day-to-day operations. The reforms would see operational control pushed down the chain of command. In addition, the three service chiefs will be removed from the defence board, a powerful committee the defence secretary chairs. The overall head of the military, the chief of the defence staff, currently General Sir David Richards, will represent them. A committee chaired by an independent non-executive director, chosen by the defence secretary, will be in charge of appointments to the services' top ranks. The MoD is expected to axe up to 8,000 civil servants in 2012. Senior commanders would be given more overall control of their budgets and internal appointments.[17] The report also suggested that a new joint forces command structure should be created with senior appointments in the MoD lasting longer than every two years by making sure people stay in post for longer. Levene says that "finance and the need for affordability are not regarded as sufficiently important throughout the organisation." He says that the "lack of trust" which pervades the MoD has led to a tendency for those at the top to try to micromanage, while the individual services look out for themselves rather than thinking of defence as a whole. This has led to a "predisposition to overcomplicate ... and a culture of reinventing the wheel".The role of the chief of the defence staff should also be enhanced so that "he alone will be responsible for representing the military voice." Levene says that the new defence board "should be the primary decision-making body for non-operational matters", and should meet 10 times a year. It will have nine members, but only one will be from the military, the chief of the defence staff, currently General Sir David Richards.[18]
Defence and Security Review[link]
In a speech on the future of the Armed Forces to the House of Commons on 19 October 2010 Prime Minister David Cameron set out plans that would mean cuts 7,000 jobs go in the British Army; 5,000 in the Royal Navy; 5,000 in the Royal Air Force; and 25,000 civilian jobs at the Ministry of Defence. In terms of equipment, the RAF will lose the Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft programme, the entire Harrier jump-jet fleet will be scrapped, and bases will be turned over to the Army. The Army will have its tanks and heavy artillery cut by 40%, and half of the soldiers in Germany will return to the UK by 2015, with the rest brought home by 2030 and housed in former RAF bases. The Navy will have its destroyer and Frigate fleet cut from 23 to 19 (by cutting the type 22 frigates) and will be provided with less expensive frigates. It will also be affected by the loss of the Harriers. Overall, the defence budget is to be cut by 8% but Mr Cameron insisted that Britain would continue to meet the Nato target of spending 2% of GDP on defence.[19] In the same speech Cameron announced a national cyber security programme, costing £500m, "to fix shortfalls in cyber infrastructure", while more focus will be given to tackling terrorists such as Al Qaeda and dissident Irish republicans in what he said would be "continuing investment in our world class intelligence agencies". Army numbers will fall to 95,500 by 2015 – 7,000 fewer than today – but ground forces will continue to have vital operational role in the future, he said.[19]
Resignation[link]
On 14 October 2011 Fox resigned from his office as Secretary of State for Defence, following controversy over his relationship with Adam Werritty.[20]
Positions[link]
Iraq[link]
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Liam Fox in Basra, Iraq September 2008
He voted for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As Shadow Defence Secretary he has supported the Government’s position of maintaining British troops in Iraq until the security situation allows for a withdrawal of troops but has been critical of the lack of post-invasion planning and poor equipment initially provided to British troops.[21] He supported the idea of the American Surge and believes that it has been successful.[22] Since becoming Shadow Defence Secretary he has visited Iraq on a number of occasions.[23]
Afghanistan[link]
He has been an outspoken supporter of the war in Afghanistan and the British presence there. He has been critical towards some of the European NATO partners whom he believes are not contributing enough to the effort in the more dangerous southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan.[24] Since becoming Shadow Defence Secretary he has visited Afghanistan on five occasions.[25][26][27][28][29]
In July 2010 Fox said that an early withdrawal of coalition troops from Afghanistan would risk a return of civil war and act as a "shot in the arm to jihadists" across the world, the defence secretary, Liam Fox, warned.In marked contrast to David Cameron, who pledged over the weekend to withdraw all British troops by 2015, Fox said Britain would be betraying the sacrifices of its fallen soldiers if it left "before the job is finished". British forces would be among the last to leave Afghanistan, he added, because they are stationed in Helmand, one the most dangerous provinces in the country. He said that "Were we to leave prematurely, without degrading the insurgency and increasing the capability of the Afghan national security forces, we could see the return of the destructive forces of transnational terror," he said. "Not only would we risk the return of civil war in Afghanistan, creating a security vacuum, but we would also risk the destabilisation of Pakistan with potentially unthinkable regional, and possibly nuclear, consequences."[30]
British troops in the Sangin area of Afghanistan's Helmand province are to be replaced by US forces, the UK's Defence Secretary Liam Fox has said. The UK has suffered its heaviest losses in the area, with 99 deaths since 2001. About 1,000 Royal Marines are expected to leave and be redeployed to central Helmand by the end of 2010. Dr Fox told MPs UK forces had made "good progress" in Sangin, but the move would enable Britain to provide "more manpower and greater focus" on Helmand's busy central belt, leaving the north and south to the US. "The result will be a coherent and equitable division of the main populated areas of Helmand between three brigade-sized forces, with the US in the north and the south, and the UK-led Task Force Helmand, alongside our outstanding Danish and Estonian allies, in the central population belt," he told the House of Commons.[31]
On 19 July 2010 Fox said that within four years the Afghan army and police should take responsibility for security, leaving British troops to work only as military trainers. The date is a full year earlier than the deadline suggested by David Cameron this month, who said he wanted most troops back by 2015. Dr Fox said: "It has always been our aim to be successful in the mission and the mission has always said that the Afghan national security forces would be able to deal with their own security by 2014. We recognise that there will be further work to do in terms of training and improving the quality of those forces beyond that, which is why we have said training forces may be available after that date. But we have made it very clear that that will not be combat forces."[32]
Iran[link]
He has spoken on a number of occasions regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions and believes that all options, including the use of military force, have to be on the table. He is opposed to an Iran with a nuclear weapons capability.[33] In July 2007 he travelled to Iran.
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Liam Fox meeting with General McChrystal in Kabul, Afghanistan July 2009.
NATO[link]
He has very strong Atlanticist views. He believes that NATO is the cornerstone of the United Kingdom and Europe’s defence and that NATO must have primacy over the European Union including the right of first refusal for all matters relating to the defence of continental Europe.[34] He has been critical of the common funding mechanism within NATO and has called for a system to be used that allows for more proportionate burden sharing between NATO member states for NATO led military operations.[35]
The European Union[link]
He is considered to be staunchly Eurosceptic and opposed to European defence integration as well as European political integration. He is opposed to the European Commission having any role in defence policy. He believes that the European Security and Defence Policy duplicates and takes away scarce national resources from NATO.[34] He specifically opposes the defence provisions in the Lisbon Treaty.[36]
Capital punishment[link]
He does not support capital punishment.[37]
Abortion[link]
Fox is critical of abortion and has called for "huge restriction, if not abolition" on the UK's "pro-abortion laws".[38] In an interview with Morgan and Platell, Fox elaborated on these views, stating that he would "like to see [abortion limits] brought down...well below 20 weeks; I'd like to see us look at limits more akin to some of the European countries at 12 or 14 weeks."[39]
He went on to state that "a society that actually aborts 180,000 unborn children every year is a society that needs to be asking a lot of questions about itself. For me it's a simple personal belief. It says, "thou shall not kill", it doesn't say, thou shall not kill unless Parliament says it's OK. For the same reason I'm against the death penalty. However, I do accept...that if the majority of the population decide that it's something they find acceptable, I've got to live with that. But I'm not going to be quiet and I'm not going to pretend that my views are other than they are for the sake of political convenience."[39]
Military welfare[link]
He has claimed on a number of occasions that the Military Covenant is broken and that the British Armed Forces are being asked to do too much for what they are resourced to do.[40][21]
Along with the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, he established the Military Covenant Commission headed by Frederick Forsyth with the aim of finding ways to improve the welfare of service members, veterans, and their families under a future Conservative Government. Fox has a particular interest in mental health issues and has criticised the current British Government for failing to adequately address the problem.[41]
Israel[link]
Fox is a supporter of Israel and is a member of Conservative Friends of Israel.[42] In 2006 he said, "Israel’s enemies are our enemies and this is a battle in which we all stand together or we will all fall divided."[43] In January 2009, referring to Israel, he also said, "British support for any ally is never unqualified. International law and values must always be obeyed."[44] In May 2011, Fox was booed at the We Believe in Israel event for saying that Israeli settlements "are illegal and an obstacle to peace".[45][46]
Nuclear deterrent[link]
Fox believes that Britain should maintain its continuous at sea, independent, submarine based strategic nuclear deterrent based on the Trident missile system.[34] Fox believes that Britain is vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse that would disable electrical circuits after the detonation of a nuclear device in the atmosphere.[47]
Defence procurement[link]
Fox has pledged to restructure the defence procurement process in the Ministry of Defence. He has also stated that it would be a matter of policy to see Britain’s share of global defence exports increasing under a Conservative Government.[48]
Elevated bilateral defence relationships[link]
Fox believes that it is in Britain’s national interest to build bilateral defence relations with key strategic partners.[49] Fox has mentioned the United States, France, Norway, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States.[50][51]
Special Relationship[link]
He is a strong believer in the Special Relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States.[52] He is the UK Director and founding member of The Atlantic Bridge, a UK based charity that aims to preserve and promote the Special Relationship.[53] The Atlantic Bridge closed down in October 2011 after being told to cease activities by the Charity Commission for "promoting a political policy [that] is closely associated with the Conservative Party".[54]
Fox was able to retain a good relationship with the administration of George W. Bush, despite a five-year break down in relations between the Conservative and Republican parties over the Iraq War.[55] He led the Conservative delegation to the 2008 Republican National Convention.[56]
Expenses[link]
In March 2010 Fox appealed Sir Thomas Legg's decision that he had over claimed £22,476 in mortgage interest payments. Fox immediately[57] repaid the money, then appealed the decision. Fox's appeal was rejected and the decision was upheld by Sir Paul Kennedy, a former high court judge.[58]
Fox stated that his decision to remortgage his second home to pay for redecorations and claim the higher interest repayments on his expenses represented value for money because he could have charged the taxpayer for the decorating bills directly. In his response, Sir Paul Kennedy stated: "What you claimed was not recoverable under the rules then in force. I entirely accept that, like many others, you could have made other claims if the fees office had rejected your claims for mortgage interest, and that you may well have spent some of what you raised by increasing your mortgage on your constituency home, but the evidence is imprecise, and my terms of reference only allow me to interfere if I find special reasons in your individual case showing that it would not be fair and equitable to require repayment, either at all or at the level recommended."[57] This reportedly made him the Conservative Shadow Cabinet member with the largest over-claim on expenses, and as a result, he has been forced to repay the most money.[59]
It was reported in June 2009 that Fox claimed expenses of more than £19,000 over the last four years for his mobile phone. Fox claimed the high bill was due to regular trips overseas, in his capacity as Shadow Defence Secretary and said he was looking for a cheaper tariff.[60]
Breaches of parliamentary rules[link]
In March 2010, Fox admitted breaking parliamentary rules on two occasions by visiting Sri Lanka on a trip paid for by the Sri Lankan government without declaring the trip in the Register of Members' Financial Interests in the required time of 30 days and failing to declare an interest in Sri Lanka when asking ministers how much UK aid had been given to Sri Lanka. In fact, Fox has declared all of his trips to Sri Lanka paid for by the Sri Lankan government in the Register of Members' Financial Interests.[61] However, one trip he took in November 2007 was declared two months late. Fox blamed a "changeover of staffing responsibilities" for this error.[62]
Of the five trips to Sri Lanka mentioned in the BBC article only three were paid for fully by the Sri Lankan government. Those not paid in full by the Sri Lankan government were paid for by the Sri Lankan Development Trust.[61]
In a statement, Dr Fox said: "I have been involved in attempts to promote peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, involving all sides of the ethnic divide, since I was a foreign minister in 1997. During my most recent visit I spoke at a press conference to outline my reasons for being there. The declaration of the visit you refer to in November 2007 was highlighted in an end-of-year audit following a changeover of staffing responsibilities. The registrar was immediately notified and my register entry was updated accordingly. All visits have been fully declared on the House of Commons Register of Members' Interests and are therefore public knowledge and entirely legitimate.I do, however, recognise that when asking one question in 2008, I should have noted an interest and will be writing to the registrar to make this clear". [63]
Adam Werritty[link]
During October 2011 Fox's relationship with a close friend Adam Werritty attracted extensive media attention and eventually led to Fox's resignation. Werrity, some 17 years younger than Fox, had been best man at his wedding, had lived rent-free in Fox's flat, and been involved with him in business and in the conservative Atlanticist think-tank The Atlantic Bridge. While Fox was Defence Minister, Werrity had visited Fox at the Ministry of Defence on many occasions, had accompanied Fox on numerous official trips, attended some of his meetings with foreign dignitaries, and had used official-looking business cards which said he was an "advisor"[sic] to Fox,[64] all despite having no government post. The media raised questions about Fox's judgment in allowing this to happen, the nature of the men's relationship, and the source of Werrity's income.
In response, Fox initially requested Ursula Brennan, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence, to investigate his connection with Werrity.[65][66][67][68] On Sunday 9 October 2011, in advance of Brennan's initial report of the result of her inquiry to the Prime Minister, Fox made a statement apologising publicly for his conduct in relation to Werrity, denying wrongdoing but admitting errors of judgment in mixing his professional and personal loyalties.[69] The inquiry was escalated and Fox resigned in advance of publication of the full report.[20]
The full list of Fox's meetings[70] for his time in office to date, 20 May 2010 to 8 October 2011, was published by the MoD after 7 pm on 10 October 2011[71] and revealed that Werrity was present at 40 of Fox's 70 engagements in that period (57%).
In 2005–6, Fox used public money, from his expense claims as an MP, to pay Adam Werritty.[72]
Finances[link]
Dr Fox is a registered shareholder of the medical educational firm Arrest Ltd.[73] His estimated wealth is £1m.[74][75]
Fox accepted a £50,000 donation from Jon Moulton, whose investment firm, Better Capital, later went on to own Gardner Aerospace, an aerospace metallic manufactured details supplier which includes component parts for both military and civilian aircraft.[76] This potentially exposed Dr Fox to conflict of interest but neither Fox nor Moulton violated any rules with this donation.[77] Since all Members of Parliament are required to state in what capacity they receive any donation Fox stated in his entry in the Register of Members’ Interests that he accepted the cash “in my capacity as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence”.[78]
Spice Girls joke[link]
In December 2000 Fox, then shadow health secretary, publicly apologised for making a joke about the Spice Girls during a Christmas party at Westminster. He had asked "Have you heard my new joke? What do you call three dogs and a blackbird? The Spice Girls". The Labour party claimed the joke was "racist" and "sexist".[79][80][81]
Personal life[link]
On 10 June 2005, he announced his engagement to longtime girlfriend Dr Jesme Baird, 37 at the time, a fellow doctor who works at the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and is an alumna of the University of Glasgow. They married at St Margaret's Church opposite Parliament on 17 December 2005.[82]
Burglary victim[link]
Fox was the victim of a burglary at his London flat in April 2010. A laptop computer, a mobile phone and his car were stolen. The car was later found abandoned. Police arrested six people and a 17-year-old from Bermondsey, South London, was convicted of burglary. It was later discovered that the media had misreported that Fox had been alone in the flat during the burglary, when he later commented that a younger male friend, but not Adam Werrity, had been sleeping there. Fox also commented that this was consistent with what he had informed police of in his statement.[83][84]
Styles[link]
- Liam Fox (22 September 1961–1983)
- Dr Liam Fox (1983 – 9 April 1992)
- Dr Liam Fox MP (9 April 1992 – 13 May 2010)
- The Right Honourable Dr Liam Fox MP (13 May 2010– )
See also[link]
References[link]
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- ^ Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent (30 June 2010). "Liam Fox insists army cannot leave Afghanistan until job done". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/30/liam-fox-afghanistan-foreign-policy. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
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- ^ Fox, Dr. Liam, (20 February 2008). "‘House of Commons Debat eon the Treaty of Lisbon". http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080220/debtext/80220-0014.htm#08022083000619. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ^ Kite, Melissa, (20 September 2005). "‘Fox courts religious Right with plea to limit abortion to 12 weeks’". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3323922/Fox-courts-religious-Right-with-plea-to-limit-abortion-to-12-weeks.html. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ^ "Tories in abortion row". BBC News. 24 January 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1134042.stm.
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- ^ Fox, Dr. Liam, (2 October 2007). "‘We need a Government that honours our Armed Forces’". http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2007/10/Liam_Fox_We_need_a_Government_that_honours_our_Armed_Forces.aspx. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ^ Fox, Dr. Liam, (18 March 2009). "’We must defuse timebomb of veterans' mental health’". http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2009/03/Liam_Fox_We_must_defuse_timebomb_of_veterans_mental_health.aspx. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
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- Electoral history and profile at The Guardian
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- Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
- Profile at BBC News Democracy Live
- Articles authored at Journalisted
- Profile: Liam Fox, BBC News,_16_October 2002
- Profile: Liam Fox, BBC News,_10_November 2003
- Detailed research on the Werritty affair, by Craig Murray
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Biography[link]
Louise Daphne Bagshawe, born on 28 June 1971 in London, England, is the daughter of Nicholas Wilfrid and Daphne Margaret Bagshawe née Triggs.[2] Her father comes from a family of Roman Catholic gentry;[3] his grandfather was the marine artist Joseph Richard Bagshawe, who was himself grandson of one of the 19th century's most renowned marine artists Clarkson Stanfield,[4] and a nephew of Edward Gilpin Bagshawe, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham. Her paternal grandmother Mary Frideswide Bagshawe was the daughter of Charles Robertson, a stockbroker and benefactor of St Philip's Priory, Begbroke and one of the co-founders of Westminster Cathedral.[5] She is the sister of Tilly Bagshawe, a freelance journalist and author, and also has a younger sister Alice and a brother, James.[6]
Her family moved to the countryside when she was seven. She was educated at Beechwood Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells,[7] and Woldingham School, a Roman Catholic girls' boarding school in Surrey, and was named "Young Poet of the Year" in 1989 at the age of 18.[8] After reading English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford,[9] and following a six month internship at MTV Europe she worked as a press officer with EMI Records (a position from which she was formally dismissed),[10] and then as a marketing official for Sony.
Louise Bagshawe married Anthony LoCicero, a property speculator, and they had three children, but after nine years the marriage ended in divorce.[11][12] In June 2011, she married Peter Mensch, the manager of Metallica, Jimmy Page and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.[13]
Writing career[link]
Her first novel, Career Girls, was published in 1995 and has been followed by 13 subsequent works in the chick lit genre aimed at young women. She has defended chick-lit against allegations, specifically by psychologist Susan Quilliam, that the books cause irrationally high expectations which "ruin readers' lives" by saying that such books merely make readers raise their standards.[14]
Politics[link]
By the age of 14 she had joined the Conservative Party, inspired by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,[11] but in 1996 she briefly switched to the Labour Party saying she believed Tony Blair to be "socially liberal but an economic Tory".[15] By 1997 she had returned to the Conservatives and helped her mother, Daphne, win a seat in East Sussex County Council from the Liberal Democrats.[11] In 2001, Mensch co-founded the Oxonian Society with Joseph Pascal and Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.[16]
Political career[link]
Mensch was placed on the A-List of Conservative candidates in 2006. This move was criticised by David Burrowes, from the socially conservative Cornerstone Group of Tory MPs, as favouring "minor celebrities", such as Mensch, over local candidates when selecting prospective parliamentary candidates.[17] In October 2006 she was selected to stand in Corby.[18] As part of her campaigning for the 2010 election, she appeared on Question Time[8] and BBC One's The Big Questions.[19] She believes the foxhunting ban should be repealed, on civil liberties grounds, and that its debate and implementation was a waste of Parliamentary time.[20]
In the 2010 general election Mensch won the seat of Corby with a majority of 1,951, defeating Labour incumbent Phil Hope, and in June 2010 she was elected by other Conservative MPs to serve on the Select Committee for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.[21]
Phone Hacking Scandal[link]
On 19 July 2011, in the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, Mensch took part in the questioning of James and Rupert Murdoch over the News of the World phone hacking scandal.
Political blogger Bagehot in the The Economist, whilst admitting he had not previously been impressed, named Mensch as the "surprise star" of the hearing saying her "sharp, precise, coolly scornful questions" contrasted with her "waffling, pompous" fellow committee members.[22] Mensch later faced criticism for incorrectly claiming during the committee that Piers Morgan had written in his autobiography about conducting phone hacking while he was the editor of the Daily Mirror.[23] When challenged on CNN by Morgan, Mensch cited the protection of parliamentary privilege and refused to withdraw the allegation. However, she also refused to repeat it outside parliament, as it would leave her vulnerable to unlimited civil damages from Morgan.[24] She later apologised to Morgan, admitting that she had misread a newspaper report about the book.[25]
Three days later Mensch received an email alleging that she had taken a controlled substance with Nigel Kennedy at Ronnie Scott's club in Birmingham in the 1990s while working as a press officer for the EMI record company.[26] Mensch publicly released the email and admitted the allegations were "highly probable", but said she would not be deterred from asking further questions about phone hacking. She subsequently admitted using cocaine and other class A drugs in the March issue of GQ magazine.[10][27]
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She has also criticised media outlets for repeated questions about whether she has had plastic surgery.[29][30][31]
Control of social networking during riots[link]
Following the 2011 England riots Mensch called for social media services Twitter and Facebook to be shut down or to "take an hour off" during disturbances to stop the spread of false rumours wasting police resources.[32] She compared the action with brief interruptions to road and rail networks during emergencies.[32] However other Twitter users compared such action to Iran and China whilst Sussex police said they had used Twitter to stop rumours.[32]
National Health Service reforms[link]
In March 2012, a group of 240 doctors, including 30 professors, wrote to the The Independent describing the NHS reforms as an "embarrassment to democracy" which had no support from professional healthcare organisations.[33] They blamed the Bill’s supporters for putting the Coalition survival “above professional opinion, patient safety and the will of the citizens of this country”. They pledged to stand as candidates against MPs who backed it and as "an A list, successful author and vocal new MP" Mensch was mentioned as a likely target despite her lack of promotion.[33]
Bibliography as Louise Bagshawe[link]
Single novels[link]
Publications[link]
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Anthology[link]
- Five Romantic Reads (2005) (with Donna Hay, Laura Wolf, Jane Elizabeth Varley and Stella Chaplin)
References[link]
- ^ "I cant believe Im a Tory". The Times (London). 14 May 2006. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/style/article717693.ece.
- ^ "Marriages". The Times: p. 12. 23 September 1969.
- ^ "The Landed Gentry of Britain". Wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=landgent&id=I3748. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ^ David Cordingly (1996), Jane Turner, ed., ""Stanfield, Clarkson"", Grove Dictionary of Art (Macmillan Publishers)
- ^ The Catholic Who's Who and Yearbook, 33, 1940, p. 432
- ^ Scott, Caroline (6 March 2005). "Relative Values: Tilly and Louise Bagshawe". The Sunday Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article518349.ece.
- ^ Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011
- ^ a b "Question Time:This week's panel". BBC News. 10 January 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/7181778.stm. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
- ^ . http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/ccm-09.pdf.
- ^ a b Victoria King (29 July 2011). "Tory MP Louise Mensch 'probably took drugs in club'". BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14342674. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
- ^ a b c "Louise Mensch profile". http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Mensch_Louise.aspx.
- ^ Walker, Tim (27 May 2007). "Chick lit Tory candidate Louise Bagshawe splits from husband". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5395444/Chick-lit-Tory-candidate-Louise-Bagshawe-splits-from-husband.html. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
- ^ Walker, Tim (3 June 2011). "Tory MP Louise Bagshawe secretly marries Metallica manager Peter Mensch". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8553011/Tory-MP-Louise-Bagshawe-secretly-marries-Metallica-manager-Peter-Mensch.html. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ^ Louise Mensch (2011-07-08). "Chick-lit doesn't damage its readers, it just makes them raise their standards". Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8623588/Chick-lit-doesnt-damage-its-readers-itjust-makes-them-raisetheir-standards.html. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
- ^ "'He sees women as equals'". London: BBC News. 5 June 2006. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/apr/19/uk.conservatives1. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
- ^ "Today's Leaders, Tomorrow's Ideas. HUDSON UNION SOCIETY™". Oxoniansociety.com. http://www.oxoniansociety.com/About.asp. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ^ "'Beautiful' Tory list under fire". BBC News. 19 April 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5029462.stm. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
- ^ 'Chick-lit' author to stand at next general election, Northampton Chronicle, 13 October 2006. Retrieved on 28 April 2008.
- ^ "BBC One Programmes – The Big Questions, Series 2, Episode 21". BBC. 14 Jun 2009. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l7vc6. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ Louise Bagshawe, ConservativeHome, 14 June 2006. Retrieved on 14 June 2006.
- ^ "Westminster select committees: Labour & Tory membership". Financial Times. 24 June 2010. http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/06/westminster-select-committees-labour-tory-membership/. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
- ^ "Rupert and James Murdoch before Parliament". The Economist. 19 July 2011. http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2011/07/british-press-and-phone-hacking-scandal-8.
- ^ Swaine, Jon (20 July 2011). "Phone hacking: Piers Morgan in on-air hacking row with Louise Mensch". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8649135/Phone-hacking-Piers-Morgan-in-on-air-hacking-row-with-Louise-Mensch.html. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
- ^ Piers Morgan Refutes Hacking Allegations On CNN cnn.com, 20 July 2011.
- ^ "MP Mensch apologises to Piers Morgan for hacking slur". BBC News. 29 July 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14346050. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
- ^ Sanchez, Raf (29 July 2011). "Louise Mensch releases email allegations made by journalist". The Independent (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8670599/Louise-Mensch-releases-email-allegations-made-by-journalist.html. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
- ^ "Louise Mensch comes clean on Morgan, drugs and bad dancing". Channel 4 News. 29 July 2011. http://www.channel4.com/news/louise-mensch-comes-clean-on-morgan-drugs-and-bad-dancing. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
- ^ (Iron Maiden: http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2012-02/02/louise-mensch-mp-interview).
- ^ "Newsnight – Coogan and Mensch clash over press regulation". BBC News. 13 October 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9614587.stm. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ^ Decca Aitkenhead (30 September 2011). "Louise Mensch: 'We're not all ogres' | Politics". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/sep/30/louise-mensch-phone-hacking-politics. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ^ "Has Louise Mensch had a facelift? Tory MP 'Cameron cutie' refuses to answer | Mail Online". Daily Mail. 2 October 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044248/Has-Louise-Mensch-facelift-Tory-MP-Cameron-cutie-refuses-answer.html. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ^ a b c Martin Beckford (12 Aug 2011). "Louise Mensch MP calls for Twitter and Facebook blackout during riots". Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8697850/Louise-Mensch-MP-calls-for-Twitter-and-Facebook-blackout-during-riots.html. Retrieved 14 Aug 2011.
- ^ a b Jane Merrick & Brian Brady (18 March 2012). "Doctors bid to unseat 50 MPs in revenge over NHS bill". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/doctors-bid-to-unseat-50-mps-in-revenge-over-nhs-bill-7576423.html. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
External links[link]
- As politician
- Louise Mensch MP official constituency website
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
- Current session contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Electoral history and profile at The Guardian
- Voting record at PublicWhip.org
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou.com
- Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
- Profile at BBC News Democracy Live
- Articles authored at Journalisted
- Articles authored as Louise Bagshawe at Journalisted
- As author etc.
- Louise Mensch on Twitter
- Louise Mensch at the Internet Movie Database
- Louise Bagshawe Books
- Works by or about Louise Mensch in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Interviews
- Louise Mensch and Zoe Margolis debate SlutWalk
- Louise Mensch on BBC TV urges the Murdochs to appear before the committee
- Louise Mensch and Piers Morgan on Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room (CNN)
- Louise Mensch interviewed by CNN's Richard Quest about her experience interviewing News Corp executives
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| Short description | English novelist and politician |
| Date of birth | 1971-06-28 |
| Place of birth | London |
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| The Right Honourable Chris Grayling MP |
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| Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions | |
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| Assumed office 13 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Jim Knight (Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform) |
| Shadow Home Secretary | |
| In office 19 January 2009 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Dominic Grieve |
| Succeeded by | Alan Johnson |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions | |
| In office 2 July 2007 – 19 January 2009 |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Philip Hammond |
| Succeeded by | Theresa May |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Transport | |
| In office 6 December 2005 – 2 July 2007 |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Tim Yeo |
| Succeeded by | Theresa Villiers |
| Shadow Leader of the House of Commons | |
| In office 10 May 2005 – 6 December 2005 |
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| Leader | Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | Oliver Heald |
| Succeeded by | Theresa May |
| Member of Parliament for Epsom and Ewell |
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| Assumed office 7 June 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Archie Hamilton |
| Majority | 16,447 (33.0%) |
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| Born | (1962-04-01) 1 April 1962 (age 50) Marylebone, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Clare Dillistone |
| Alma mater | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge |
Christopher Stephen "Chris" Grayling, MP (born 1 April 1962), is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Shadow Cabinet from 2005 to 2010 and was the party's Shadow Home Secretary from 2009 to 2010. Following the 2010 general election, he was appointed a Minister of State in the Department for Work and Pensions.[1] He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Epsom and Ewell since 2001.
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Early life[link]
Chris Grayling was born in London and grew up in Buckinghamshire.
Education[link]
Grayling was educated at the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe. He then went on to Cambridge University, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in history at Sidney Sussex College in 1984.
Life and career[link]
Grayling joined BBC News in 1985 as a trainee, becoming a producer in 1986. He left the BBC in 1988 to join Channel 4 as an editor on its Business Daily programme. He rejoined the BBC in 1991 as a business development manager on BBC Select. On leaving the BBC in 1993, he ran several television production companies, including managing the corporate communications division of Workhouse Ltd from 1992-5 and SSVC Group in Gerrards Cross from 1995-7. He became a management consultant in 1997 with Burson Marsteller, where he remained until his election to Westminster.
Prior to joining the Conservative Party, Grayling was a member of the Social Democratic Party, along with a number of other Cameron frontbenchers.[2]
Political Career[link]
Councillor[link]
Grayling was selected to contest the Labour-held marginal seat of Warrington South at the 1997 general election, but was defeated by Labour candidate Helen Southworth by 10,807 votes. He was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Merton in 1998 and remained on the council until 2002.
Member of Parliament[link]
He was elected to the House of Commons for the Surrey seat of Epsom and Ewell at the 2001 general election following the retirement of the veteran Tory MP Archie Hamilton. Grayling held the seat with a majority of 10,080 and has remained the MP there since. He made his maiden speech on 25 June 2001.[3]
Shadow Cabinet[link]
He served as a member of the environment, transport and the regions select committee from 2001 until he was promoted to the Opposition Whips' Office by Iain Duncan Smith in 2002, moving to become a spokesman on health later in the year. He became a spokesman on education and skills by Michael Howard in 2003, and following the 2005 general election he became a member of Howard's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, and since the election of David Cameron as the leader of the Conservative Party in December 2005 he has served as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. In June 2007, he was made Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, a post he held until January 2009 when he became Shadow Home Secretary.
Conservative Attack Dog[link]
Grayling became known as a national politician through his “attack dog” pressure on leading Labour politicians.[4] He was heavily involved in the questioning of David Blunkett, the then Work and Pensions Secretary, over his business affairs that led to his resignation in 2005.[5] He also challenged Cherie and Tony Blair over the money they made from lectures while he was in Downing Street and former Minister Stephen Byers over his handling of the Railtrack collapse.[6]
Controversy[link]
Expenses claims[link]
Between 2001 and 2009,[7] Grayling claimed for a flat in Pimlico, close to the House of Commons, despite having a constituency home less than 17 miles away[8] and owning two buy to let properties in Wimbledon.[9] Grayling says he uses the flat when "working very late" because he needs to "work very erratic and late hours most days when the House of Commons is sitting."[10]
During the Parliamentary expenses scandal, The Daily Telegraph reported that Grayling refitted and redecorated the flat in 2005 at a cost of thousands of pounds. Grayling said that both the water and electrical systems failed "leaving the place needing a major overhaul".[9]
[edit] Comparing Moss Side to The Wire
As Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling's provoked controversy in August 2009 when he compared parts of to Britain to the Baltimore set TV series The Wire. In a speech on gang problems he also talked about the gang problems in Manchester’s Moss Side. His Comments met with an angry response in Manchester, from locals and the police.[11] Having been out on patrol for a day with the police, observing the results of a shooting at a house, he described himself as having witnessed an "urban war". Police responded that gang related shootings in Greater Manchester had fallen by 82 percent on the previous year, and that to speak of "urban war" was "sensationalistic".[11] Local councillor Roy Walters complained of the Moss Side unfairly being a "negative target" due to historical associations.[11] However he was defended by right wing commentators who said he spoke for the “mainstream majority”. Sticking by his comments, he said, "I didn't say Moss Side equals Baltimore. What I said is that we have in Moss Side symptoms of a gang conflict in this country which I find profoundly disturbing".[12] Baltimore, with a population of about 600,000, was noted as having 191 gun related murders in the past year, in comparison to Moss Side, population 11,000, which had none.[11]
Statistics controversy[link]
Grayling came under fire as Shadow Home Secretary over the Conservative Party's use of violent crime statistics.[13] In February 2010, the Conservative Party issued press releases to every constituency in the UK claiming that crime had "risen sharply" in the UK. However, they failed to take into account the more rigorous system for recording crime. The chairman of The UK Statistics Authority, Sir Michael Scholar, said that the figures Grayling was using were "likely to mislead the public" and "likely to damage public trust in official statistics".[14] Scholar further added that reliable statistics showed that there had not been an increase in crime during Labour's period in office.[15] However a subsequent report produced by the independent House of Commons library confirmed that Grayling and the Conservative Party had been right to say that violent crime had risen significantly.[16][17][18]
Gay couples in B&Bs controversy[link]
In March 2010, Grayling was recorded at an open meeting of the thinktank Centre for Policy Studies saying that during the debates on civil liberties under the Labour Government, he had felt that Christians should have the right to live by their consciences and that Christian owners of bed and breakfasts should have the right to turn away gay couples.[19] Grayling said:
"I personally always took the view that, if you look at the case of should a Christian hotel owner have the right to exclude a gay couple from a hotel, I took the view that if it's a question of somebody who's doing a B&B in their own home, that individual should have the right to decide who does and who doesn't come into their own home. If they are running a hotel on the High Street, I really don’t think that it is right in this day and age that a gay couple should walk into a hotel and be turned away because they are a gay couple, and I think that is where the dividing line comes."[20]
When the recording was released by The Observer on 3 April 2010,[21] Grayling's comments caused uproar,[22] with Ben Summerskill, chief executive of the gay rights group Stonewall, saying that this position would be illegal and "very alarming to a lot of gay people who may have been thinking of voting Conservative".[22] Lord Mandelson, the most senior gay minister in the government, said that the comment showed that the Conservative party had not changed, that "when the camera is on they say one thing, but when the camera is off they say another".[23] There have since been growing calls for Grayling to resign.[24][25] Conservative party leader David Cameron was subsequently urged to "back or sack" Grayling,[26] with gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell saying that "Cameron's silence is worrying. Many voters – gay and straight – will be disturbed by his failure to swiftly disown Grayling's support for homophobic discrimination. What does this say about the sincerity and seriousness of his commitment to gay equality?"[27] A poll for the website pinknews.co.uk released on 5 April[28] found that support for the Conservatives in the LGBT community had fallen drastically since Grayling's comment.[29] Author Douglas Murray has dubbed Grayling "a political buffoon, unsure of what he is saying and with little idea of how to say it."[30] Anastasia Beaumont-Bott, founder of "LGBTory", a gay rights group that campaigns for the Conservatives, announced that she would be voting for Labour, not the Conservatives, in response to Grayling's comment. She said, "I feel guilty because as a gay woman affected by LGBT rights I am on record saying you should vote Conservative, and I want to reverse that. I want to go on record to say don't vote Conservative. I'd go as far to say that I'll vote Labour at this general election."[31] Beaumont-Bott was joined in defecting from the Conservatives to Labour a week later by prominent gay rights campaigner David Heathcote.[32] However Grayling’s comments were defended by a number of commentators, including the Today Programme presenter and leading gay broadcaster Evan Davis, and by leading Christian groups.[33]
Grayling apologised on 9 April, saying "I am sorry if what I said gave the wrong impression, I certainly didn't intend to offend anyone... I voted for gay rights, I voted for this particular measure." On the 12 April edition of The Daily Politics, presenter Andrew Neil claimed the programme makers had been unable to contact Grayling about an appearance and suggested that he had gone to ground since his comments were published.[34] Since the start of the 2010 general election campaign on 6 April, Grayling has been "hidden away" by the Conservatives, making very few public appearances.[35][36][37][38] During the launch of the Labour Party's "LGBT Manifesto" on 15 April, Deputy Leader Harriet Harman renewed calls for Grayling to be sacked, saying "We don't want to wake up and find we have a homophobic home secretary. David Cameron should have sacked him as soon as he said that."[39] It is unclear whether his remarks were the reason that David Cameron chose to appoint Theresa May as Home Secretary in his new cabinet, rather than Grayling who held the position in the Shadow Cabinet; Grayling was not given any cabinet post, as had been predicted by some media commentators prior to the election.[40]
Appointment to Privy Council[link]
On 28 May 2010 he was appointed to the Privy Counsel as part of the 2010 Dissolution of Parliament Honours List.[41][42]
Personal life[link]
In April 1987 Grayling married Susan Clare Dillistone in Surrey and they have a daughter, Laura (born December 1992), and a son, Matthew (born August 1996). He supports Manchester United, and can boast that he once hit a four off the Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee.[43]
Publications[link]
- The Bridgewater Heritage: The Story of Bridgewater Estates by Chris Grayling, 1983, Bridgewater Estates PLC
- A Land Fit for Heroes: Life in England After the Great War by Christopher Grayling, 1985, Buchan & Enright ISBN 0-907675-68-9
- Holt's: The Story of Joseph Holt by Christopher Grayling, 1985, Joseph Holt PLC
- Just Another Star?: Anglo-American Relations Since 1945 by Christopher Grayling and Christopher Langdon, 1987, Virgin Books ISBN 0-245-54603-0
- Insight Guide Waterways of Europe contribution by Chris Grayling, 1989, Apa Publications ISBN 0-88729-825-7
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References[link]
- ^ "Her Majesty’s Government". Number10.gov.uk. 2010-05-19. http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/topstorynews/2010/05/her-majestys-government-49840. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
- ^ "Are there more ex-SDP members on the Tory front-bench than the Lib Dem front-bench?". Libdemvoice.org. 2009-01-30. http://www.libdemvoice.org/are-there-more-exsdp-members-on-the-tory-frontbench-than-the-lib-dem-frontbench-10833.html. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
- ^ Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster (2001-06-25). "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 25 Jun 2001 (pt 20)". Publications.parliament.uk. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo010625/debtext/10625-20.htm#10625-20_spnew1. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
- ^ Attack Dog - Telegraph - December 2008
- ^ Blunkett falls - Scotsman - November 2005
- ^ Cherie in trouble again - Times - October 2005
- ^ Swaine, Jon (12 May 2009). "Chris Grayling to stop claiming second home allowances: MPs' expenses". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5315228/Chris-Grayling-to-stop-claiming-second-home-allowances-MPs-expenses.html. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
- ^ Watt, Holly (2006-02-22). "Daily Telegraph: Chris Grayling (11 May 2009)". Telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5305242/Chris-Grayling-claimed-for-London-flat-despite-nearby-constituency-home-MPs-expenses.html. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
- ^ a b Grayling, Chris (May 2009). "MPs Expenses - May 2009". Grayling's website. http://www.chrisgrayling.net/speech/200905-expenses.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-01. [dead link]
- ^ Grayling, Chris (January 2008). "MPs Expenses - January 2008". Grayling's website. http://www.chrisgrayling.net/speech/200801-expenses.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-01. [dead link]
- ^ a b c d Osuh, Chris (2009-08-26). "Grayling's comments on Moss Side condemned". Manchester Evening News (Manchester Evening News). http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1133692_graylings_comments_on_moss_side_condemned. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
- ^ No, author (2009-08-25). BBC "Anger at Tory's Wire comparison". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8221231.stm=BBC. Retrieved 2009-12-12. [dead link]
- ^ McSmith, Andy (5 February 2010). "Lies, damn lies and Tory crime statistics". The Independent (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lies-damn-lies-and-tory-crime-statistics-1889927.html. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ Doughty, Steve (5 February 2010). "Tories accused of fiddling violent crime statistics to show increase under Labour". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248172/Conservatives-accused-fiddling-violent-crime-statistics.html. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ "Political row over violent crime figures 'damaging public trust'". Daily Mail (London). 5 February 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248556/Tory-Chris-Grayling-sparks-political-row-violent-crime-figures.html. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ Full scale of violent crime revealed - March 2010
- ^ Appearing alongside David Cameron and Brooke Kinsella
- ^ Right wing commentators on the Wire speech
- ^ BBC News, 4 April 2010, Grayling suggests B&Bs should be able to bar gay guests
- ^ The Observer, 3 April 2010, Secret tape reveals Tory backing for ban on gays
- ^ The Observer, 3 April 2010, Listen to the secret recording: Top Tory backs bar on gays
- ^ a b The Guardian, 3 April 2010, Secret tape reveals Tory backing for ban on gays
- ^ The Times, 4 April 2010, Senior Tory Chris Grayling attacked for gaffe over gays in B&Bs
- ^ The Daily Mail, 4 April 2010, Top Tory Chris Grayling urged to resign after backing B&B ban for gays on secret tape
- ^ The Morning Star, 4 April 2010, Pressure grows on gay-bashing Tory
- ^ Daily Telegraph, 4 April 2010, David Cameron urged to act over Chris Grayling's 'anti-gay' comments
- ^ The Guardian, 4 April 2010, Chris Grayling reveals the real Tories
- ^ Pink News, 5 April 2010, Exclusive: Cameron and Grayling gay gaffes cause Conservative popularity among LGBT community to plunge
- ^ Pink News, 5 April 2010, Chris Grayling: Support for Conservatives among gays drops sharply after B&B row
- ^ The Telegraph, 6 April 2010, Chris Grayling is a political buffoon. What if a B&B turned away black African Christians?
- ^ The Independent, 8 April 2010, I'm voting Labour, founder of Tory gay rights group says
- ^ Pink News, 14 April 2010, David Miliband welcomes former Tories who have quit party over gay rights
- ^ [1]
- ^ Andrew Neil (12 April 2010). The Daily Politics. The BBC.
- ^ The Daily Mail, 9 April 2010, Has Calamity Chris been cast into the cold?
- ^ The Observer, 11 April 2010, They seek Chris here, they seek Chris there...
- ^ The Telegraph, 13 April 2010, Chris Grayling finally makes an appearance at Conservative manifesto launch
- ^ The Daily Mail, 14 April 2010, Chris Grayling's gaffe over gays comes back to bite Tories as Labour unveils defectors
- ^ Pink News, 16 April 2010, Harman calls for sacking of Chris Grayling as she launches gay manifesto
- ^ The Guardian, 14 April 2010, David Cameron's cabinet: who's in and who's out?
- ^ http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/peerages-honours-and-appointments/
- ^ http://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/privy-council/privy-council-members/privy-counsellors/#g
- ^ The Daily Politics, BBC show
External links[link]
- Chris Grayling MP official constituency website
- Epsom and Ewell Conservatives
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
- Current session contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Electoral history and profile at The Guardian
- Voting record at PublicWhip.org
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou.com
- Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
- Profile at BBC News Democracy Live
- Articles authored at Journalisted
- Article archive at The Guardian
- Speaking to Wirral Conservatives
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| Name | Grayling, Chris |
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| Date of birth | 1 April 1962 |
| Place of birth | Marylebone, London |
| Date of death | |
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Adam Werritty[1] is a Scottish businessman. Werritty is a close friend of the former UK Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox: he resided for a period in 2002 and 2003 at Fox's London apartment and was best man at his wedding in 2005. The two were also business associates who once held joint investments in the healthcare consultancy firm UK Health. Werritty was reportedly an adviser[2][3][4] of Fox's and is known to have accompanied him on at least 18 foreign business trips between 2009 and 2011 including visits to Sri Lanka and Dubai in 2011, and Israel in 2009; in 2007, when Fox was shadow Defence Secretary, they both attended a meeting with the Gulf Research Centre.[5][6] Werritty was also appointed by Fox as the chief executive of the now disbanded conservative Atlanticist think-tank, "The Atlantic Bridge".
Werritty made visits to Fox at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Main Building in Whitehall on 22 occasions in 16 months; Werrity was not security-cleared with the MoD. Additionally, over a 17-month period, ending October 2011, Werritty was present at 40 of Fox's 70 recorded engagements. The uncertain nature of Werritty's relationship with Fox led to an investigation by senior civil servants, initially the MoD's Permanent Secretary, Ursula Brennan and latterly the Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell.[7][8] Fox claimed that Werrity had never worked for him either in an official or unofficial capacity despite allegations that he was using a source of advice outside the Civil Service, paid for by private funds.[9][10] Disclosure of increasing amounts of detail of their contact, funding and explanations of their relationship led to Fox's resignation on 14 October 2011 in advance of O'Donnell's report of his investigation.
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Personal life[link]
Born in Kirkcaldy, Werrity was raised in St Andrews, Fife, and went to Madras College, where he played rugby in the 1st XV.[11]
His father Alan Werritty is a retired geography professor at the University of Dundee, specialising in hydrology.[1] His American-born mother, Irene, is a childcare training coordinator at Dundee City Council. Adam Werritty also has an older brother.[11]
Werritty went to Edinburgh University to study public policy, becoming vice-president of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Students branch. He graduated with a 2:2 in social policy.[11]
He left Scotland to work for the healthcare company PPP and lived in several places in London and stayed rent-free between 2002 and 2003 in Fox's tax-payer subsidised flat in Southwark near Tower Bridge. Werritty was Fox's best man at his wedding in 2005,[12] having first met Fox in 1998 when the latter was a guest speaker at a Burns Night Supper event organised by the Edinburgh University Young Conservatives student society.[11]
According to the electoral roll, Werritty lives in a £700,000 flat[13] in Pimlico near Vauxhall Bridge, close to Parliament.[11] He is a member of the Carlton Club[14] and the Conservative Party.[15]
Investigation[link]
Werritty was investigated by senior civil servants led by Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell.[16] The Prime Minister David Cameron first asked for an interim report of the MoD internal inquiry by 10 October 2011.[17] The final report was initially due to be submitted on 21 October 2011[18] but O'Donnell's finding were released earlier than anticipated on 18 October. Amongst other findings, the report stated that the former defence secretary had blocked civil servants from attending key meetings where Adam Werritty was in attendance and had also failed to tell his permanent secretary that he had solicited funds to bankroll Werritty, he had also ignored private office requests to distance himself from the relationship.[19]
The investigations into Werrity's close ties also revealed that he had visited Fox in the Ministry of Defence Main Building on 22 occasions during a period of 16 months. In addition, Werrity was present on 18 overseas trips undertaken by Fox in the course of his duties as Secretary of State.[20] On 10 October 2011 the MoD published a full list of Fox's meetings, from the beginning of his term in office (20th May 2010) to 8 October 2011, and it revealed that Werrity was present at 40 of Fox's 70 engagements in that period.[21][22]
Ties to Liam Fox[link]
His friendship with Liam Fox began in the late 1990s, when Fox was an Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Scotland and Constitutional Affairs and when Werritty was studying public policy at Edinburgh University. They had a shared interest in politics and the United States.[23]
On 10 October 2011 in a statement to the House of Commons, Liam Fox said that Werritty worked as a paid intern in Fox's parliamentary office when the Conservative Party was in opposition (1997-2010) and at this time had a Parliamentary pass. Fox said records showed Werritty received a total payment of £5,800 for research work undertaken during that time.[24]
Werritty lived in Fox's apartment in Southwark, London, during 2002 and 2003. The property in which Werrity stayed rent free was mortgaged at £1400 per month and covered by Fox's Additional Costs Allowance (ACA), part of his MP's expenses.[25]
In 2011, Werritty stayed with Fox at a villa in Spain during an August holiday break at the climax of the 2011 Libyan civil war.[26]
Foreign trips to Dubai, Israel, Washington, and Sri Lanka[link]
Financial backers linked to Israel and a private intelligence firm helped fund Werritty's travels with Fox.[9] In April 2007, Werritty and Fox attended an official meeting with the Gulf Research Centre, an independently-run body that conducts research on issues concerning the Middle East. The couple also attended an Israeli security conference centred on relations with Palestine, as well as Iranian sanctions, which took place in Herzliya in 2009. Fox is a strong supporter of Israel and is a member of Conservative Friends of Israel.[27] Werritty is listed in conference proceedings as Dr. Adam Werritty, an adviser to Fox in his role as Shadow Defence Secretary.[28][29] In September 2010 the pair were in Washington and met at a defence industry dinner attended by some of the US's leading generals, including General James Mattis, commander of US Central Command.[30]
In June 2011 Werritty organised a business meeting at the Shangri-La Hotel in Dubai. The meeting was attended by Werritty, Fox, the British private equity boss and CEO of the Porton Group Harvey Boulter, and two other Dubai-based businessmen.[31] Werritty had earlier been contacted by a lobbying firm known as Tetra Strategy, whom Boulter had hired at a rate of £10,000 per month, in an attempt to have Fox intervene in a Porton Group legal dispute that indirectly involved the MoD. Tetra are believed to have begun working towards arranging a meeting with Werritty or Fox as early as 25 March 2011. In an email from Lee Petar, Tetra's boss, to Boulter, Werrity is described as the "special adviser to the secretary of state for defence Liam Fox."[32]
Werritty's initial meeting with Boulter in April 2011 led to discussions with Fox regarding the sale of a product called Cellcrypt.[33] The 45 minute Dubai meeting in June 2011 was primarily about the possible sale of the voice encryption software to the British MoD. Boulter has claimed that the matter of a legal battle between Porton Group and 3M concerning Acolyte, a EU regulatory approved rapid detection technology for MRSA, and a deal worth £41,000,000, was allocated no more than 5–10 minutes at the end of the meeting.[33][34][35] According to The Guardian, details relating to the nature of the visit and the business matters discussed suggest that it was "highly irregular". The MoD has stated that there were no officials present at the meeting but that one of those present claimed to have received the impression that all of those in attendance had been security cleared. Werritty did not have such clearance.[36]
On 7 October 2011, The Guardian reported that the Werritty met senior Sri Lankan ministers on an official visit with Fox in summer 2011.[37] The Sri Lankan trip was originally scheduled for December 2010 but a disagreement with the foreign secretary, William Hague, saw the visit changed to July despite allegations that the Sri Lankan government supported paramilitary groups in defeating the Tamil Tigers. As a result of the trip questions were raised about the appropriateness of Werritty accompanying Fox on government trips abroad.[38] Fox had previously claimed that Werritty had never joined him on such trips but details relating to how frequently Werritty was in his company while abroad later emerged.[39]
Overview of all foreign trips with Fox[link]
According to reports, between February 2009 and 2011 Werritty was found to have been in Fox's company on many trips abroad:[40]
- Israel, February 2009.
- Singapore, 4–6 June 2010.
- Dubai, 7–8 June 2010.
- Florida, 2–3 July 2010.
- Dubai, 6–8 August 2010.
- Washington DC September 2010
- Bahrain, 2–6 December 2010.
- Dubai, 17–22 December 2010.
- Hong Kong, 16–23 January 2011.
- Israel, 6–7 February.
- Switzerland, 17–21 February.
- Dubai, April 2011.
- Abu Dhabi, 14–18 April 2011.
- Florida/Washington, 22–25 May 2011.
- Hong Kong, 31 May – 1 June 2011.
- Singapore, 2–6 June 2011.
- Sri Lanka, July 2011.
- Dubai, 17 June 2011.
- Washington DC, 30 June – 3 July 2011.
- Spain, 5–9 August.
Reported advisory role[link]
Wealthy Conservative donors including Michael Hintze indirectly provided financial support for Werrity's role as a political and strategic adviser to Fox by funding organisations such as Atlantic Bridge, a registered charity set up by Fox and run by Werrity that was used to bankroll the advisor's various international travels.[41][42] Hintze, a major Tory party donor, donated £104,000 to Fox's charity. He also provided Werritty with free office space at the headquarters of his £5bn CQS hedge fund and allowed both Fox and Werritty to use his private jet. Days before the forced cessation of Atlantic Bridge's operations by the Charity Commission, Werrity founded a company called Pargav Ltd., which went on to receive a further £147,000 in donations from Tory party supporters and businessmen. Pargav's sole director was Oliver Hylton, a close senior aide of Hintze's and the manager of his charitable foundation that paid the donations to Atlantic Bridge.[43] It emerged that Hylton, who was initially suspended by CQS following news of the Werrity affair, later ceased employment with the company.[44]
Werrity's close ties to Conservative hardliners, it was argued, enabled him to bypass Whitehall officials and helped Fox promote strongly pro-American policies and Euroscepticism in the UK and abroad. In response to revelations about Werrity's activities becoming publicly known, Fox's political allies launched an effort to distance Werritty from the minister by describing him as an opportunist who had “taken advantage” of his personal relationship with Fox and as someone who was a fantasist "masquerading as someone he was not."[2][45][46]
Werritty distributed business cards that declared he was an "advisor (sic) to the Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP" although Fox claims he requested him not to do so.[36] Werritty also made visits to Fox at the MoD's HQ in Whitehall on 22 occasions in 16 months which led the Labour Party to request an inquiry into a possible national security breach.[47] Werrity was able to arrange access to the minister for private sector companies on matters where they could both see commercial gains, despite denials of any role as an adviser.[48]
Fox has claimed that Werritty was not connected with backers of companies who wanted defence contracts but was instead funded by ideological backers. According to the BBC this meant that Fox was using sources of advice outside the Civil Service and paid for by private funds.[9] Fox has declared that: "I do accept that given Mr Werritty's defence-related business interests, my frequent contacts with him may have given an impression of wrongdoing, and may also have given third parties the misleading impression that Mr Werritty was an official adviser rather than simply a friend".[49]
The former chairman of the Standards and Privileges Committee, Sir Alistair Graham, stated that Fox had shown serious misjudgement[50] and the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson observed that whatever Fox claimed "many will judge that Adam Werritty acted as his adviser...his business cards stated he was an adviser, he booked hotels as an adviser, he fixed meetings with people who believed he was an adviser...he raised funds from people who thought that too...[and] the sole director of the not-for-profit company set up to fund Werritty regarded him as 'an adviser of some sort to Dr Fox'."[49]
Role in the Atlantic Bridge[link]
Werritty was also responsible for operating The Atlantic Bridge out of Fox's office at taxpayers' expense. The conservative "charity" worked in conjunction with a US charitable and educational group, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which allows cooperation between legislators and corporations such as Philip Morris, Texaco and McDonalds in addressing common interests. According to US charity records, Werritty was listed as the UK executive director with an address corresponding to Fox's former room at the House of Commons, No. 341 in the MPs' block at Portcullis House, which served as the charity's official headquarters. The Guardian reported that, between 2007 and 2010, Werritty's income as chief executive of The Atlantic Bridge was in excess of £90,000. The charity was established by Fox to help US/UK relations and serve as a reminder of the Reagan-Thatcher era and Werritty was given a lead role. The charity also functioned as a counterpart to the ALEC-founded Atlantic Bridge Group, a sister organisation in the United States. Following criticism by regulators that the charity was too politically oriented to be eligible for charitable status, the UK wing disbanded in September 2011.[6][38]
Resignation of Liam Fox[link]
On 14 October 2011, following the furore over Adam Werritty, Liam Fox resigned from his position of Defence Secretary .[51]
Business interests[link]
Werritty is, or has been, a director or company secretary of the following companies:[52]
- Todiha Ltd – active
- Danscotia Consulting Ltd – active
- UK Health Ltd – active
- Security Futures – dissolved
- UK Health Supply Services Ltd – dissolved
- UK Health Group Ltd – dissolved
Fox and Werritty are both shareholders in UK Health Ltd.[53]
Security futures[link]
Companies House shows this company (registered number 05993984) as having been incorporated on 9 November 2006 and dissolved on 11 January 2011.
- Laura Sandys, MP, was a director until 22 March 2010.
- Iain Stewart, MP, was also a director until 22 March 2010.[54]
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- ^ a b Wealthy donors 'paid for Werritty to advise Liam Fox' BBC News, 12 October 2011, BBC.
- ^ Liam Fox adviser may have to face Whitehall officials again Nick Hopkins, The Guardian, Wednesday 12 October 2011, Guardian News and Media Limited
- ^ "'Adviser' Adam Werritty joined Liam Fox at talks on Iran sanctions" Kim Sengupta and Oliver Wright, The Independent, Wednesday 12 October 2011,
- ^ "Liam Fox faces questions for allowing former flatmate access to MoD" Rupert Neate, The Guardian, Tuesday 4 October 2011, Guardian News and Media Limited
- ^ a b "'Adviser' Andrew Werritty ran charity from Liam Fox's office", Rupert Neate, Robert Booth, Rajeev Syal and Simon Bowers, The Guardian, Friday 7 October 2011, Guardian News and Media Limited
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- ^ a b c Liam Fox friend 'funded by private intelligence firm' BBC News, 14th October 2011, BBC.
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- ^ Fresh questions over company that funded Adam Werritty's jet-set life Rupert Neate, The Guardian, Sunday 16 October 2011,Guardian News and Media Limited
- ^ Adam Werritty backer to hand police documents to back claim he was duped Rupert Neate, Friday 4 November 2011, Guardian News and Media Limited
- ^ Fox allies turn on Werritty Kiran Stacey and James Blitz, The Financial Times, 12th October 2011, The Financial Times Ltd.
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See also[link]
External links[link]
- Adam Werritty collected news and commentary at The Guardian
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| Name | Werritty, Adam |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | Scottish businessman |
| Date of birth | 18 July 1978 |
| Place of birth | Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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| Andy McNab | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1959-12-28) 28 December 1959 (age 52) Southwark, London, England |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/branch |  British Army |
| Years of service | 1976–1993 |
| Rank | Sergeant |
| Unit | Royal Green Jackets (1976–84) Special Air Service (1984–93) |
| Commands held | Bravo Two Zero |
| Battles/wars | The Troubles First Gulf War |
| Awards | Distinguished Conduct Medal Military Medal |
| Other work | Author |
Sergeant ‘Andy McNab’ DCM MM (born 28 December 1959) is the pseudonym[1] of an English novelist and former SAS operative and soldier.
McNab came into public prominence in 1993, when he published his account of the Special Air Service (SAS) patrol, Bravo Two Zero for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1991.[2] He had previously received the Military Medal in 1980, awarded for an action whilst serving with the Royal Green Jackets in Northern Ireland during 1979.[3]
In addition to Bravo Two Zero he has written two other autobiographies and a number of fiction books.
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Early life[link]
McNab was born on 28 December 1959. Found abandoned on the steps of Guy's Hospital in Southwark, he was brought up in Peckham, with his adoptive family. He did not do well in school so dropped out and worked at various odd jobs, usually for friends and relatives, and was partly inspired to join the British Army because of his brother's time in the army.
He was involved in petty criminality until being arrested for burglary. In 1976, shortly after his arrest, he aspired to a career as an army pilot, but failed the entry test. In the same year, he enlisted with the Royal Green Jackets at the age of sixteen.[4]
Military career[link]
After McNab enlisted in the Royal Green Jackets he was posted to Kent for his basic training, and boxed for his regimental team. After his basic training, he was posted to the Rifle Depot, in Winchester. In 1977, McNab spent time in Gibraltar as part of his first operational posting, while with 2RGJ.
From December 1977 to June 1978, he was posted to South Armagh, Northern Ireland, as part of the British Army's 'Operation Banner'. In 1978 and 1979, he returned to Armagh as a newly promoted Lance Corporal, and claimed to have killed for the first time during a firefight with the Provisional Irish Republican Army. McNab wrote of the incident: "I remember vividly the first time I had to kill someone to stay alive. I was a 19-year-old soldier in Keady, south Armagh, and my patrol stumbled across six IRA terrorists preparing for an ambush. When the shooting started they were just 20 metres away from my patrol. I was scared, very scared."[3] McNab was awarded the Military Medal for this incident.[3] However, security sources later claimed that the person McNab shot was only wounded and died as a result of injuries from a separate shootout later that day.[3]
In 1982, after spending eight years with the Royal Green Jackets, he decided to attempt SAS selection. Having failed his first attempt he finally passed in 1984, and transferred to the SAS. While serving with Air Troop, B Squadron, 22 SAS for ten years, McNab worked on both covert and overt operations worldwide,[4] which included counter terrorism and drug operations in the Middle East and Far East, South and Central America and Northern Ireland. McNab trained as a specialist in counter terrorism, prime target elimination, demolitions, weapons, tactics, covert surveillance roles and information gathering in hostile environments, and VIP protection.[4] He worked on cooperative operations with police forces, prison services, anti-drug forces and Western backed guerrilla movements as well as on conventional special operations. In Northern Ireland, he spent two years working as an undercover operator with 14 Intelligence Company, going on to become an instructor.[4]
During the First Gulf War, McNab commanded Bravo Two Zero, an eight man SAS patrol that was given the task of destroying underground communication links between Baghdad and north-west Iraq and with tracking Scud missile movements in the region. The patrol was dropped into Iraq on 22 January 1991, but was soon compromised, escaping on foot towards Syria, the closest coalition country.
Three of the eight men were killed; four were captured (including McNab) after three days on the run and one member, 'Chris Ryan', escaped. The four captured men were held for six weeks before being released on 5 March. By the time he was released McNab was suffering from nerve damage to both hands, a dislocated shoulder, kidney and liver damage and hepatitis B. After six months of medical treatment he was back on active service. In the words of the SAS's commanding officer, the story of the patrol "will remain in Regimental history forever".
Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab claims to have been the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier when he left the SAS in February 1993.[4]
Post military career[link]
While writing Bravo Two Zero, McNab assumed his pseudonym. When he appears on television to promote his books or to act as a special services expert, his face is shadowed to prevent identification. As Larry King put it when McNab appeared on the Larry King Live show on CNN: "We have Andy in shadows. He's wanted by terrorist groups."[5] According to the book The Big Breach, by Richard Tomlinson, a renegade MI6 spy, McNab was part of a special training team after the Iraq war, training MI6 recruits in sabotage and guerrilla warfare techniques.
Due to the extremely sensitive nature of his work while serving with the SAS, McNab has a legally binding contract obliging him to submit his writings to the British Ministry of Defence for review. He is still believed to be wanted by a number of the world's terrorist organisations; he therefore chooses not to reveal either his face or his current location.[6]
After leaving the Army, McNab developed and maintained a specialist training course for news crews, journalists and members of non-governmental organisations working in hostile environments. He spent time in Hollywood as technical weapons advisor, and trainer on the Michael Mann film Heat, helping to engineer how the master-thief played by Robert De Niro would go about pulling off robberies on an armoured car and a bank, and how policeman Al Pacino would go about tracking him down and stopping him. He was also the technical advisor on the 2005 crime film Dirty.[7]
In February 2007, McNab returned to Iraq for seven days as The Sun newspaper's security advisor with his old regiment the Royal Green Jackets. Here he researched the background for his new book, Crossfire.[8]
McNab has written about his experiences in the SAS in three best-selling books, Bravo Two Zero (1993), Immediate Action (1995) and Seven Troop (2008). Bravo Two Zero sold over 1.7 million copies, with Immediate Action selling 1.4 million in the UK. To date[when?] it has been published in 17 countries and translated into 16 languages.[4] The CD spoken word version of Bravo Two Zero, narrated by McNab, sold over 60,000 copies and earned a silver disc. A BBC film of Bravo Two Zero, starring Sean Bean, was shown on prime time BBC One television in 1999 and released on DVD in 2000. Immediate Action, McNab's autobiography, spent 18 weeks at the top of the best-seller lists following the lifting of an ex-parte injunction granted to the Ministry of Defence in September 1995.[4]
Fiction writing[link]
McNab is the author of a number of action thrillers.
A series of thirteen successful books are based on Nick Stone – an ex-SAS soldier working on deniable operations for British intelligence. The series draws extensively on McNab's experiences and knowledge of Special Forces soldiering. He has been officially registered by Nielsen BookScan as a best-selling British thriller writer.[citation needed] The Boy Soldier Series was written with the cooperation of Robert Rigby and follows a boy named Danny Watts and his grandfather Fergus, apparently a rogue ex-SAS soldier.
Andy McNab has also written two books for Quick Reads, a charity that supports World Book day, "The Grey Man" and "Last Night Another Soldier". BBC raw words offers exclusive audio versions of the latest Quick Reads by Andy McNab Last Night Another Soldier read by Rupert Degas.
Film work[link]
After working on the Miramax film, Heat, Miramax has acquired the film rights to the first four of McNab's novels, and Echelon is currently[when?] in production, based on the book Firewall McNab will co-produce and co-write the script and also act as technical adviser. According to McNab on his recent book signing tour, either Jason Statham or Tom Hardy will play the lead role of Nick Stone. He is also a current board-member of a private security company. In conjunction with Spoken Group Ltd, Andy McNab is pioneering spoken drama for download from the Internet and to mobile phones.[citation needed] These stories include real battle field sound effects. 'McNab' took part in E4's Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack on 13 January 2008.[9]
Current[link]
He now lives in Norfolk[10] and lectures on security and military related topics, in both the US and the UK.[4]
He is also a director of military service recruitment, mentoring and Foundation organisation, ForceSelect.[11]
He worked with DICE on perfecting various situations involving techniques on gun fighting, stance and other war-related issues for Battlefield 3.
Books[link]
Non-fiction[link]
- Bravo Two Zero (1993)
- Immediate Action (1995)
- The Ultimate Warrior (2002)
- Seven Troop (2008)
- Spoken From The Front (2009)
Fiction[link]
Nick Stone Missions
- Remote Control (17 February 1998)
- Crisis Four (22 August 2000)
- Firewall (5 October 2000)
- Last Light (1 October 2001)
- Liberation Day (1 October 2002)
- Dark Winter (3 November 2003)
- Deep Black (1 November 2004)
- Aggressor (1 November 2005)
- Recoil (6 November 2006)
- Crossfire (12 November 2007)
- Brute Force (3 November 2008)
- Exit Wound (5 November 2009)
- Zero Hour (25 November 2010)
- Dead Centre (15 September 2011)
Boy Soldier Series (written with Robert Rigby)
- Boy Soldier (US title Traitor, 5 May 2005)
- Payback (6 October 2005)
- Avenger (4 May 2006)
- Meltdown (3 May 2007)
Quick Reads project
- The Grey Man[12] (8 May 2006)
- Last Night Another Soldier (4 May 2010)
Audio Stories
- Iraq Ambush (May 2007)
- Royal Kidnap (June 2007)
- Roadside Bomb (September 2007)
- Sniper (TBA ?)
Dropzone Series
- Dropzone Bk. 1 (February 2010)
- Dropzone Bk. 2 – Terminal Velocity (March 2011)
Men at War Series (written with [Kym Jordan])
- War Torn (13 May 2010)
Battlefield 3
- Battlefield 3: The Russian (October 2011)
Television[link]
Notes[link]
- ^ "Hanks, Robert "Andy McNab: The hidden face of war" ''The Independent'', 19 Nov 2004". Independent.co.uk. 2004-11-19. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/andy-mcnab-the-hidden-face-of-war-533714.html. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
- ^ "McGibbon, Rob, 2005 '''The Press Conference with Andy McNab''". Robmcgibbon.com. http://www.robmcgibbon.com/resources/pcw_andy_mcnab.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
- ^ a b c d "Stinson, James 'McNab tells of killing IRA man in 1979 gun battle' ''Irish News'', 1 August 2005". Nuzhound.com. http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/irish_news/arts2005/aug1_McNab_1979_killing.php. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Biography | Andy McNab Official Website
- ^ "CNN LARRY KING LIVE: Larry King Interviews Bob Dole, Max Cleland". CNN.com – Transcripts. 20 November 2001. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/20/lkl.00.html. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
- ^ "Andy McNab: The hidden face of war". The Independent (London). 19 November 2004. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/andy-mcnab-the-hidden-face-of-war-533714.html. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ^ Andy McNab Filmography | Internet Movie Database
- ^ Hero McNab goes back to Iraq The Sun, retrieved 27 February 2008
- ^ "Behind scenes at SAS hijacking!". The Sun. 2008-01-14. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/celebrity_big_brother_hijack/article683012.ece. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
- ^ AccessVideos interview with Rob McGibbon 2008 (part 1)
- ^ www.forceselect.com ForceSelect
- ^ "The Grey Man (Quick Reads 2006) by Andy McNab". Fantasticfiction.co.uk. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/series/quick-reads/grey-man.htm. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
References[link]
- Peter, Ratcliffe (2000). Eye of the Storm: Twenty-Five Years in Action with the SAS. Michael O'Mara Books. ISBN 978-1-85479-809-1.
- Asher, Michael (2002). The Real Bravo Two Zero: The Truth Behind Bravo Two Zero. Cassell Military. ISBN 978-0-304-36554-8.
- Coburn, Mike (2004). Soldier Five: The Real Truth About The Bravo Two Zero Mission. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84018-907-0.
External links[link]
- Essay for BBC's This Week programme
- Andy McNab at the Internet Movie Database
- Gray Man's Land longstanding and respected fan site
- BBC raw words – Quick Reads
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| Name | Macnab, Andy |
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| Date of birth | 28 December 1959 |
| Place of birth | Southwark, London, England |
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