Andrew Mitchell (politician)

Andrew Mitchell (2009)

Andrew John Bower Mitchell (born March 23, 1956 in Hampstead , London Borough of Camden ) is a British economic manager and politician of the Conservative Party .

biography

Studies and professional and social activities

The son of David Bower Mitchell (1928-2014), a long-time member of the House of Commons and "junior minister" in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , briefly completed military service with the Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army after attending the renowned rugby school . He then studied history at Jesus College of the University of Cambridge , where he was in 1977, first Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association , before 1978 president of the Cambridge Union Society was.

In addition, he took part as a so-called "Peacekeeper" in the peacekeeping measures of the United Nations during the Cyprus conflict in the 1970s . He later took part in several projects and traveled to Africa and East Asia .

After working for the US investment bank Lazard , he was a manager at Touche Ross & Co from 1981 to 1989 and then financial controller there until 1991. This was followed by a position as manager of audit procedures at Storehouse plc from 1991 to 1993 before he became finance director of WH Everett & Son Ltd in 1993 .

Member of the House of Commons and Minister

His political career began as a candidate of the Conservative Party in the elections in 1987 when it was first a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) was chosen and this until 1997 constituency Gedling in Nottinghamshire represented.

During this time, between 1992 and 1995, he was not only the parliamentary executive director of the Conservative parliamentary group in the lower house ( Government Whip ), but from 1992 and 1993 he was also Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party , Norman Fowler .

In 1995 he was appointed Minister for Social Security in his cabinet by Prime Minister John Major and was a member of this until the Conservatives were defeated in the elections in May 1997 , in which he himself lost his mandate in the lower house.

He then worked again in the private sector, before he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons in the subsequent elections on June 7, 2001 and has since represented the constituency of Sutton Coldfield . In November 2003 he was appointed as "shadow minister" for economic affairs in the shadow cabinet of his party, in which he was then from September 2004 to May 2005 "shadow minister of the interior". In addition to a subsequent assignment as "shadow minister" for Birmingham , he was also from May 2005 to May 2010 "shadow minister" for international development.

During this time, between 2007 and 2009, he was also the organizer of the Umubano project , a social action project in which Conservative Party volunteers are involved in a variety of development projects in Rwanda . A short film was made about this project with him and 104 other project members .

After the Conservatives' election victory in 2010 , he took over the Ministry of International Development on May 12, 2010, and had to relinquish its leadership in 2012.

From September 2012 he was Parliamentary Director ( Chief Whip ) and in this role he was a member of the Cameron I cabinet . He resigned from this position on October 19, 2012, after weeks of calls for his resignation. Andrew Mitchell had come under fire when newspapers reported that he had cursed police officers on Downing Street . In retrospect, the claim turned out to be incorrect and the police officers came under repeated criticism.

Web links

Commons : Andrew Mitchell  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Andrew Mitchell
• Homepage of the Department for International Development
• Conservative Party homepage
• Homepage as a Member of Parliament ( They Work For You )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the Department for International Development. ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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 May 12, 2010.  
2. ↑ Andrew Mitchell resigns over police comments row on BBC News . Retrieved October 20, 2012.
3. ^ Scandal: British police officers arrested for pornography . Retrieved February 9, 2014.