Ben Wallace (politician)

Ben Wallace ( born May 15, 1970) is a British politician and member of the Conservative Party.

Wallace attended Millfield School in Somerset. He then briefly worked as a ski instructor in Austria and then went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He remained until 1998, when the British Army. Wallace is married and father of three children. The family lives near Lancaster.

Scottish Parliament

For the first time Wallace joined the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 elections at the national level. In his constituency, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, he received the second highest number of votes behind the Liberal Democrat Mike Rumbles and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. Since Wallace, however, was also placed on the Regional Evaluation of the Conservative Party for choosing North East Scotland, he moved as a result of the election result as one of seven representatives of the constituency in the newly created Scottish parliament. At the end of the legislative term, he resigned from the Parliament. At the 2003 parliamentary elections ran his party colleague David Davidson in the constituency of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine.

House of Commons

Between 2003 and 2005, Wallace worked for the defense contractor QinetiQ. At the general election in 2005 Wallace ran in the constituency Lancaster and Wyre. He won the direct mandate and moved for the first time in the British House of Commons. As part of the constituency reform his constituency was dissolved before the next general election in 2010, after Wallace took for the constituency of Wyre and Preston North. Again he won the direct mandate.