David Willetts

David Linsay Willetts ( born March 9, 1956 in Birmingham) is a British politician and the Conservative Party since May 2010 Minister of State for Universities and Science, Department of Enterprise, Innovation and Education ( Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills ).

Biography

Studies, careers and the House deputy

After the visit of King Edward 's School, Birmingham, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and was subsequently private research staff from Energy Minister Nigel Lawson. After 1982 he became first employee of the Department of Monetary Policy in the Treasury, where he met again to Nigel Lawson, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1983. In 1984 he moved into the political consulting team of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In 1987 he was associate at the Center for Political Studies ( Centre for Policy Studies ), a company founded by Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph in 1974 think tank. For this he still holds talks today.

In addition to working as a guest scholar ( Visiting Fellow ) at Nuffield College, he was also governor of the Ditchley Foundation and a member of the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

His own political career began Willetts as a candidate of the Conservative Party, as he himself as a deputy of the lower house (House of Commons ) was elected in the 1992 elections for the first time, where he has since been the constituency of Havant represents.

Member of the Government

In 1996, he served as Paymaster General for a short time a member of the government of Prime Minister John Major.

He was appointed to the Conservative Shadow Cabinet in 2005 and was there first " Shadow Minister for Education and Training ", before he 2010 " Shadow Minister for Innovation, Universities and Training " was between 2007 and May.

After the electoral victory of the Conservative Party in the general election of 2010 he was on 12 May 2010 by Prime Minister David Cameron for Minister of State for Universities and Science (Minister of State for Universities and Science) in the Department of Enterprise, Innovation and Skills, taking on the meetings of the Cabinet.

He himself had to do without a vocation to the Minister, as the previously headed by him Shadow Ministry in the coalition government of the Conservatives with the Liberal Democrats was taken over by the Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable. In June 2010 he became a member of the Privy Council.

In September 2010, he announced that the government intends to increase the tuition fees.

Publications

Willets wrote numerous books as a pioneer of the new conservative politics in Britain. His most important works include:

• Happy Families? Four Points to a Conservative Family Policy, 1991, ISBN 1-870265-62-9.
• Modern Conservatism, 1992, ISBN 0-14-015477-9.
• Welfare to Work, 1992, ISBN 1-874097-18-6.
• Blair 's guru, 1996, ISBN 0-14-026304-7.
• Why Vote Conservative? , 1997, ISBN 0-14-026304-7.
• Who do we think we are? , 1998, ISBN 1-897969-81-3.
• Left Out, Left Behind, 2003, ISBN 0-9545611-0-4.
• Old Europe? Demographic Change and Pension Reform, 2003, ISBN 1-901229-47-5.
• The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give It Back, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84887-231-8.