Ben Wallace (politician)
Robert Ben Lobban Wallace (born May 15, 1970 ) is a British politician and member of the Conservative Party . He has been British Defense Secretary in the Boris Johnson cabinet since July 24, 2019 .
Wallace attended Millfield School in Somerset . He then briefly worked as a ski instructor in Austria and then went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . He stayed with the British Army until 1998 . Wallace is married and has three children. The family lives near Lancaster .
Scottish Parliament
For the first time Wallace ran in the first Scottish general election in 1999 to elections at the national level. In his constituency of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine , he received the second highest number of votes behind the Liberal Democrat Mike Rumbles and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. However, since Wallace was also set on the Conservative Party's regional electoral list for the electoral region North East Scotland , he moved as one of seven representatives of the electoral region in the newly created Scottish Parliament as a result of the election result . At the end of the legislative period, he left parliament. For the general election of 2003 , his party colleague David Davidson ran in the constituency of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine.
British House of Commons
Between 2003 and 2005, Wallace worked for the defense company QinetiQ . In the 2005 general election, Wallace ran in the Lancaster and Wyre constituency . He won the direct mandate and moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . In the wake of constituency reform, his constituency was dissolved before the following general election in 2010 , whereupon Wallace ran for the constituency of Wyre and Preston North . Again he won the direct mandate.
Controversy
Ben Wallace appeared after Theresa May's resignation in the search for a candidate for prime ministerial support to support Boris Johnson . Wallace came under fire when, in the final phase of the selection process between Johnson and Jeremy Hunt in mid-June 2019, Johnson's neighbors, who had called the police to Johnson because of a loud argument and later informed the press, publicly tweeted them as "left-wing" would have.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Guardian: Ben Wallace ( Memento from April 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Biographical information ( memento of the original from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
- ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
- ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
- ↑ Results of the lower house elections 2005 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Results of the 2010 general election
- ↑ Rob Merrick: "Boris Johnson: Tory minister attacks 'lefty neighbors' for telling police of loud altercation involving likely new PM, then deletes tweet" The Independent from June 22, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wallace, Ben |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wallace, Robert Ben Lobban (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1970 |