Michael Spicer, Baron Spicer
William Michael Hardy Spicer, Baron Spicer, of Cropthorne in the County of Worcestershire Kt ( born January 22, 1943 in Bath) is a British journalist, author of spy novels and politicians of the Conservative Party, the 36-year member of the House of Commons was, and since 2010 Life as a peer member of the House of Lords.
Life
Journalist and Member of Parliament House of Commons
Spicer, son of the later Brigadier General L. Hardy Spicer, visited the Gaunts House Preparatory School and the Wellington College in Berkshire and then earned a degree in economics at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. After graduation, he worked as a journalist and a financial journalist at the newspaper The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, and most recently the editor of The Statist assistant.
Already at the general election on 31 March 1966, he ran for 23- year-old for the Conservative Party in the constituency Eastington, but suffered a defeat and failed to reach the House of Commons. After he was 1968-1970 Director of the Research Centre for conservative systems, he competed in the elections of 18 June 1970 again for the Tories once again without success in the constituency Eastington for a seat in the House of Commons. After that, he was from 1970 to 1980 Managing Director of Economic Models Ltd..
In the general election of February 28, 1974 Spicer was eventually first elected as an MP in the House of Commons and at first represented the constituency Worcestershire South as well as in connection since the elections of 1 May 1997 the constituency of West Worcestershire. In the general election on 6 May 2010 he resigned after more than 36 years of Parliament belonging to a bid again.
Junior ministers and backbenchers
After the electoral victory of the Tories in the general election on 3 May 1979 Spicer took his first government position in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and was until 1981 Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs Sally Oppenheim. Subsequently, he was only Vice - Chairman and then 1983-1984 Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party.
In 1984 he returned to the government and was until 1987 the Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport and, as such, at the same time from 1985 to 1987 Minister of Aviation. After a cabinet reshuffle, he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State between 1987 and 1990 in the Department of Energy, and later for a short time in 1990 Minister of State for Housing and Planning.
Following the appointment of John Major as Thatcher's successor as prime minister, he was not appointed to the government, but took over several functions in the House and in other institutions. He is since 1991 President of the Association of Electricity Producers and continued between 1992 and 1995 Governor of Wellington College.
Chairman of the 1922 Committee and the House of Lords member
He also acted in 1992 for some time Chairman of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and later between 1996 and 1999 Chairman of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. Spicer, who was defeated in 1996 Knight Bachelor and then on the additional name "Sir" led, from 1997 to 2001 Member of the House Committee on Finance and at the same time in the years 1998 to 2001, chairman of a subcommittee of this committee.
After he had been from 1997 to 1998 Member of the Executive Committee, he was between 2001 and 2010 Chairman of the so-called 1922 Committee of the Conservative Party, a party internal organization of the backbench Tories. He also belonged from 2001 to 2010 on the board of the Conservative Party and was at the same time between 2007 and 2010 Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee of his party.
After his retirement from the House of Commons Spicer was raised by a Letters Patent of 8 July 2010 as a life peer with the title Baron Spicer, of Cropthorne in the County of Worcestershire to the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. Since 2012, Lord Spicer is the Chairman of the Honorary Committee for Parliamentary and political services.
Publications
In addition to some technical books Spicer wrote between 1989 and 1993, four books about the fictional female agent Jane Hildreth, called Cotswold Mysteries.
- Final Act (1983 )
- Prime Minister, Spy ( 1986)
- Cotswold Manners (1989 )
- Cotswold Murders ( 1991)
- Cotswold Mistress ( 1992)
- A Treaty Too Far - A New Policy for Europe (1992 )
- Cotswolds Moles (1993 )
- The Challenge of the East and the rebirth of the West (1996 )
- The Spicer Diaries, Autobiography, 2012