Leon Brittan

Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne, PC ( born September 25, 1939 in London), is a barrister, British Conservative politician, former member of the British Parliament, the British government and the European Commission. His brother is the former editor and journalist for the Financial Times Sir Samuel Brittan.

Life

Brittan was educated at the Haberdashers ' Aske 's Boys ' School and later studied at Trinity College ( Cambridge ), where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society and be graduated in the master. He later studied at Yale University as a Henry Fellow. In 1962, he received his license to practice law and began his career as a lawyer.

After he had applied in 1966 and 1970 unsuccessfully for the constituency of North Kensington, he was elected at the general election in February 1974 in the constituency of Cleveland and Whitby, the Committee on Employment was a member in his party and in 1976 was opposition spokesman. In his party, he was responsible for decentralization. In 1978 he was appointed Attorney-General.

Between 1979 and 1981 he held the office of Minister of State at the Home Office, to then go to the Office of the Secretary to the Treasury, a position that is already a member of the British Cabinet. 1981 Brittan became a member of the Privy Council. In 1983 he moved his constituency and entered successfully in the constituency of Richmond, in the county of Yorkshire, at. From 1983 to 1985 he was Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Margaret Thatcher. He then moved to the Commerce and Industry Ministry. As industry minister, he joined in early 1986 back: He stumbled in the Westland affair, where he Thatcher advocated the fusion of the last British helicopter manufacturer Westland Aircraft with American rivals Sikorsky, because it was public that he is the a critical dossier on Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine had leaked to the press, who pursued a different strategy in the matter Westland.

In 1988 he became a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science. He resigned his parliamentary seat, while he was a Vice President of the European Commission from 1989 to 1993 and from 1995 to 1999. 1993 to 1994 he was responsible as commissioner for external economic and trade policy of the European Commission. During his tenure, he vented occasionally the project of a joint US-European free trade zone. As technical barriers to trade he ever saw this on protective provisions in the health, environment and social sectors. Brittan was a member of the European Commission, Jacques Santer, who was forced to resign because of massive corruption charges in 1999.

In 2000 he was appointed by the Queen on a life peer as Baron Brittan of Spennithorne, of Spennithorne in the County of North Yorkshire and heard since the House of Lords on. He is Vice - Chairman ( Vice Chairman ) UBS AG Investment Bank, and served as legal counsel for Unilever and as a consultant to the law firm Herbert Smith.

Brittan is married and has two stepdaughters.

Others

In 2012, he appeared as a witness in the documentary "The Brussels Business - Who controls the European Union?" With. His comments were based on his experience as EU Trade Commissar 1993 to 1999.

Member of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
Member of the European Commission
Interior Minister (United Kingdom)
Member of the House of Lords
Conservative Party Member
Life peer
Of the Order of St. Mary's Country - Cross ( Second Class )
Politicians ( 20th century)
Politicians ( 21st century)
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Born in 1939
Man

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