Philip Hammond

Philip Hammond ( born December 4, 1955 in Epping, Essex ) is a British business leaders, politicians of the Conservative Party and Since October 2011, Minister of Defense.

Biography

Business manager and deputy

After a local state school visit, he began in October 1974 with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford. After the end of his studies, he worked as an employee in a small pharmaceutical companies.

His political career began in 1979 as a volunteer in the campaign of the Conservative Party in today's constituency of Westminster North, the conservatives then gained prominence with only 106 votes. He later became chairman of the constituency association. Professionally, he has worked in numerous sectors of the economy (housing, manufacturing, health care, oil and gas companies ).

On 9 June 1994, he ran for the first time in a by-election ( By-election ) even for a seat in the lower house in the constituency of Newham North East, but lost to the candidate of the Labour Party, Stephen Timms, who scored 74.97 percent of the vote. In addition, he was a consultant to the World Bank in Latin America and most recently 1995-1997 Advisor to the Government of Malawi.

In the 1997 General Election he was elected (House of Commons ) for the first time for the Members of the House and represents there ever since the constituency of Runnymede and Weybridge. He was last re-elected in the elections on 6 May 2010 with 55.8 percent of the vote.

Shadow cabinet and climb to the Minister of Transport

In June 1998, he was appointed member of the shadow cabinet of the Conservative Party and was the first "shadow health minister ," before he was from 2001 to 2002 Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry and small business from September. After that, he was between 2002 and 2005 Shadow Minister for Local Government and the Regions, and then shadow chief secretary to the Treasury. He was then in December 2005, Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions, and finally between July 2007 and May 2010, again the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury.

After the electoral victory of the Conservative Party in the general election in 2010 he was appointed on 11 May 2010 by Prime Minister David Cameron to Transport Minister in the Cabinet. His appointment was surprising since the previous Shadow Transport Minister and former Member of the European Parliament Theresa Villiers was not appointed Minister, but only to the Minister of State in the Ministry of Transport.

Immediately after his appointment as minister, he announced the end of the "war " of the previous Labour government of Gordon Brown against the motor vehicle traffic. In particular, drastic price increases of gasoline to be excluded as a result of oil price fluctuations.

Minister of Defence

Following the resignation of Liam Fox as defense secretary 14 October 2011 Hammond took over the Ministry. His successor as Minister for Transport Justine Greening was.

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