David Lidington
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David Roy Lidington (June 30 1956) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and has been Member of Parliament for Aylesbury since 1992. He had previously been a special advisor to Douglas Hurd. He is currently Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Mr Lidington was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree, and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he took an honours degree in History and then a doctorate for research on Elizabethan history. After graduation, he worked for BP and for RTZ before being appointed in 1987 as Special Advisor to the then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd. He moved to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1989 when Mr Hurd became Foreign Secretary.
In the 1987 General Election, he fought for the Vauxhall constituency and was then adopted as prospective Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Aylesbury in December 1990, before his election in 1992.
At Westminster, he has participated in the Education Select Committee and Conservative Backbench Home Affairs Committee. In 1994, he successfully promoted a Private Members Bill which became the Chiropractors Act 1994.
He has since held the following political appointments:
- August 1994 - Parliamentary Private Secretary to Home Secretary Michael Howard
- June 1997 - Parliamentary Private Secretary to Leader of the Opposition William Hague
- June 1999 - Shadow Opposition Spokesman on Home Affairs under Ann Widdecombe
- September 2001 - Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury
- May 2002 - Shadow Minister for Agriculture
- November 2003 - Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Mr Lidington is married with four children.
See also
External links
- [David Lidington] official site
- [Guardian Politics Ask Aristotle - David Lidington MP]
- [TheyWorkForYou.com - David Lidington MP]
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