Andrew Lansley

Andrew David Lansley, CBE ( born December 11, 1956 in Hornchurch, London Borough of Havering ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party and represents since September 2012 as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal, which the Cameron government policy in the House of Commons.

Biography

The son of a technician studied after visiting the Brentwood School Political Science at the University of Exeter and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Politics ) from.

He then in 1984 Senior private secretary and head of the private office of the conservative House of Representatives Norman Tebbit, who during that time Minister of Industry and Trade and then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Acting Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Conservative Party had. Upon completion of this activity, he was between 1987 and 1990 Deputy Director General of the British Chamber of Commerce.

After that Lansley was awarded from 1990 to 1995 director of the research department of the Conservative Party and as such 1992 Manager of the election campaign the Conservative Party in the general election in 1992. For its local merits him the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire was. Then in 1996 he became Vice- President of the Association of Local Authorities ( Local Government Association ) and has held this position until today.

At the general election in May 1997, he was elected for the Conservatives themselves as a member of the lower house (House of Commons ) and represents there ever since the newly created constituency of South Cambridgeshire. A year later he was in May 1998, Vice Chairman of the Conservative and was within the party executive responsible for the political renewal of the party. During his membership in the House he was a member of the committees on health and trade and industry and chairman of the bipartisan Parliamentary Working Group for stroke.

Between June 1999 and September 2001, he was the first member of the Conservative shadow cabinet and in the Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Policy Assessment.

In November 2003 he was appointed as Schattengesundheisminister again in the shadow cabinet of the Conservative Party and was one of this until May 2010. As such, he was largely responsible for the conviction of the population in support of the conservative program for the National Health Service ( NHS). He was able to draw on his experience in the relevant House committee.

In January 2010 there was a controversy after his personal office had 21,000 pounds sterling of John Nash, the chairman of the private health care under Nehms Care UK is obtained. The then Minister of Health of the Labour government of Gordon Brown, Andrew Burnham, then wrote a letter to the Conservative Party leader David Cameron to get from this guarantee that the health policies of the Conservative Party is not dictated by private health care companies.

After the electoral victory of the Conservative Party in the general election in 2010 he was appointed on 11 May 2010 by Prime Minister David Cameron as Health Minister in the British Cabinet. In 2012 he moved to the post of Leader of the House of Commons.