Michael Ancram

Michael Andrew Foster Jew Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian PC ( * July 7, 1945 in London ) is a British politician, who (after he led until 1997 courtesy title Earl of Ancram ) is under the name of Michael Ancram known.

Biography

The son of Peter Francis Walter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian studied, after the visit of Ampleforth College at Christ Church College, University of Oxford and at the University of Edinburgh.

His political career began when he was elected in 1974 as the candidate of the Conservative Party member of the House of Commons, in which he the constituency of Berwickshire and East Lothian, and then the constituency of Edinburgh South represented until 1979. Since 1992 he is a member of the lower house in the constituency of Devizes.

Between 1983 and 1987 he was in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Scotland. In the reign of Thatcher's successor, John Major, he was first in 1993 and then to 1997, Parliamentary Secretary Minister of State for Northern Ireland.

In 1998 he was Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Conservative Party. In 2001, he competed as party leader (Leader) of the conservatives, but lost Iain Duncan Smith. However, this summoned him to 2005 in his shadow cabinet as Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. At the same time during this period he was also Deputy Leader of the Opposition ( Deputy Leader of the Opposition) in the House. Most recently, he was in 2005 also briefly defense minister in the conservative shadow cabinet.

After the death of his father in 2004 he inherited the title of Marquess of Lothian.