John Horam

John Horam, Baron Horam ( born March 7, 1939 in Preston, Lancashire ) is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.

John Horam studied at St Catharine 's College at Cambridge University history and economics. After two years working for the confectionery company Rowntree 's, he joined in 1962 as a journalist, first for the Financial Times and then to the Economist. 1968 returned to the CRU Group as a manager in the economy back.

1970 Horam was elected for the Labour Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Gateshead West in the House of Commons. In 1981, he joined the Labour Party to the right removal of the SDP. In the parliamentary elections in 1983 he failed to win in the constituency of Newcastle upon Tyne Central, and he retired from the House of Commons from. He went out back to CRU Group. In the parliamentary elections in 1992, he joined this time for the Conservative Party, was changed to 1987, in the constituency of Orpington and won that. John Horram won the constituency also at the following three elections with a clear majority but decided not to stand for election in 2010.

Horams political career is remarkable because he sat for three different parties in the House of Commons and initially for the Labour Party from 1976 to 1979 the Ministry of Transport and then for the Conservative Party, the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Health led. In addition, he was the economic spokesman for the SDP in the House and a member of the Environment Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Conservative Party.

On 4 September 2013 were John Horam Horam as Baron, of Grimsargh in the County of Lancashire, as a life peer member of the House of Lords.

Swell

  • Homepage of John Horam accessed on January 23, 2014
  • John Horam: Electoral history and profile on: The Guardian
  • Long -serving Tory MP stands down at BBC News October 12, 2009, accessed on January 23, 2014
  • The London Gazette No.6020, p.17645, September 6, 2013

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  • Posts by John Horram in Parliament in the Hansard
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