Richard Shepherd
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Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd (born 6 December 1942, Aberdeen, Scotland), educated at the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins University is a politician in the United Kingdom.
He was formerly an assistant to Sir Teddy Taylor but was elected to Parliament for Aldridge and Brownhills in 1979. He has been Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Aldridge-Brownhills since 1979. He was selected as Backbencher of the Year in 1985 and the Spectator's Parliamentarian of the Year in 1995, and in 1989 he was identified by a Mori poll of his fellow MPs to be one of the ten most effective MPs currently sitting in Parliament.
He was one of the Maastricht rebels and is known to have libertarian leanings. He had close links to fellow Maastricht rebels Nicholas Budgen and Christopher Gill, even giving the eulogy at Budgen's funeral at Lichfield Cathedral.
External links
- [Conservatives.com - Richard Shepherd MP] official biography
- [Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Richard Shepherd MP]
- [They WorkForYou.com - Richard Shepherd MP]
- [Aldridge-Brownhills Conservative Association] constituency
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