Theresa Villiers
Theresa Anne Villiers (born March 5, 1968 in London ) is a British politician. She comes from the old noble family of De Villiers and belongs to the Conservative Party . She has been a member of the Chipping Barnet constituency in the House of Commons since the general election in 2005 , and in May 2010 she became Secretary of State in the British Ministry of Transport ( Minister of State for Transport in the Department for Transport ). In June 2010 she was appointed a member of the Privy Council . From September 4, 2012 to July 14, 2016, she was Minister for Northern Ireland in the Cameron I and Cameron II Cabinets . She was no longer a member of the following government under Prime Minister Theresa May . May had kindly offered her a cabinet post, but not one that she would like to take on ("... not one which I felt I could take on.") During the discussions about the UK's whereabouts in the European Union before the referendum on 23 June 2016 she spoke out in favor of leaving the EU . From July 24, 2019 to February 13, 2020, she was Michael Gove's successor as Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Areas in the Boris Johnson I and Boris Johnson II Cabinets .
European Parliament
From 1999 to 2005 she was a MEP for the London constituency .
- Member of the legal committee
- Deputy in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Member of the delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia
- Deputy Head of the Delegation for Relations with Canada
Career
- 1990: LLB (First Class Hons.), Bristol University
- 1991: BCL (Hons.) (Diploma in Civil Law), Oxford University
- 1992–1994: Admitted to the bar, Inner Temple and Inns of Court School of Law. Attorney at Law, Lincoln's Inn
- 1994–1999: Lecturer in Law, King's College London
- 2001–2002: Member of the Executive Committee of the Conservative Party
- 2001–2002: Vice-Chair of the Conservative Delegation in the EP
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.burkespeerage.com
- ↑ Privy Council appointments, June 9, 2010 . Privy Council. Archived from the original on December 2, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 17, 2010.
- ↑ a b Theresa May's cabinet: Who's in and who's out? BBC News, July 14, 2016, accessed July 14, 2016 .
- ↑ n-tv NEWS: British Treasury Secretary resigns. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
Web links
- www.gov.uk
- Homepage of Theresa Villiers
- Entry on Theresa Villiers in the Members' database of the European Parliament
| Cabinet members |
David Cameron • Baroness Anelay of St Johns • Alun Cairns • Greg Clark • Stephen Crabb • Michael Fallon • Michael Gove • Chris Grayling • Justine Greening • Robert Halfon • Philip Hammond • Matt Hancock • Greg Hands • Mark Harper • Jeremy Hunt • Sajid Javid • Oliver Letwin • Theresa May • Patrick McLoughlin • Nicky Morgan • David Mundell • George Osborne • Priti Patel • Amber Rudd • Grant Shapps • Baroness Stowell • Anna Soubry • Elizabeth Truss • Theresa Villiers • John Whittingdale • Jeremy Wright |
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| former members |
Iain Duncan Smith • Liam Fox • Cheryl Gillan • Dominic Grieve • Chris Huhne • David Jones • Andrew Lansley • David Laws • Francis Maude • Maria Miller • Andrew Mitchell • Michael Moore • Eric Pickles • Caroline Spelman • Lord Strathclyde • Baroness Warsi • David Willetts • George Young • William Hague • Vince Cable • Nick Clegg • Danny Alexander • Alistair Carmichael • Owen Paterson • Edward Davey • Kenneth Clarke |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Villiers, Theresa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Villiers, Theresa Anne (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th March 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |