John Redwood

John Alan Redwood ( born June 15, 1951 in Dover, Kent, England ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party, as a member of the House of Commons represents the constituency of Wokingham since 1987 and among other things, Minister for Wales in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major was and twice ran unsuccessfully for the office of Chairman of the Conservative Party.

Life

Professional activities and lower house deputy

After attending Kent College, Canterbury Redwood studied with the aid of a scholarship Economics at Magdalen College and at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, and was afterwards 1972-2004 Fellow and Lecturer at the local All Souls College. Shortly thereafter, he began his political career in local politics and was 1973-1977 Member of the County Council Oxfordshire. Later was the expert on investment analysis from 1980 to 1983 director of investments at the investment bank NM Rothschild & Sons.

In 1981, he ran unsuccessfully for the Tories in a by-election ( By-election ) in the constituency of Southwark Peckham for a seat in the House of Commons and was following his departure from NM Rothschild & Sons from 1983 to 1985 Head of the group policy at 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. After that, he was 1986-1987 Head of International privatizations where an entrepreneur the private sector.

In the general election of 11 June 1987, he was first elected as a member of the House of Commons, representing the constituency of Wokingham there since then. In 1989 he recorded his first government post as " junior ministers " when he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Trade and Industry with responsibility for Corporate Affairs before he was between 1990 and 1992 Minister of State in the Ministry.

Minister of Wales and unsuccessful candidates for the party presidency

Subsequently, he became Minister for Local Government and then in a cabinet reshuffle on 27 May 1993 Minister for Wales ( Secretary of State for Wales) in the cabinet of Prime Minister Major. On 26 June 1995 he resigned from this post and ran unsuccessfully against Major for the post of Chairman of the Conservative Party.

On 19 June 1997, which convinced Eurosceptic and Euro - opponents competed again for the post of party chairman of the Conservative Party, but was defeated this time William Hague, who, however, appointed him to the shadow cabinet. There, Redwood was first " Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry ," and then from 1999 to 2000 " Shadow Minister for the Environment, Transport and the Regions ".

In addition, in 1999 he was Chairman of Mabey Securities security services provider and also belonged, between September 2004 and December 2005 also again the shadow cabinet to his party and this time " Shadow Minister for deregulation". He then became Chairman of the Political Working Group of the Conservative Party to review the competitiveness and is also since 2010 Chairman of the Conservative Economic Committee.

In the general election on 6 May 2010, he was re-elected with 52.65 percent of the votes in his constituency Wokingham and left so that his challenger from the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party far behind that only 27.95 and 10.1 percent of votes received.