David Gauke

David Gauke (2017)

David Michael Gauke (born on 8. October 1971 in Ipswich ) is a British lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

Gauke was born on October 8, 1971 and grew up in Ipswich. After graduating from high school, he studied law , first at the College of St Edmund Hall at Oxford University and, after a one-year hiatus, in Chester at the University of Law campus there . In 1997 Gauke was approved as a solicitor and subsequently worked for a company in the City of London until he switched to politics in 2005 .

Gauke regularly writes articles for various local newspapers and is a fan of the Ipswich Town football club . He is married to lawyer Rachel Gauke and has three sons, born in 2002, 2004 and 2008. The family lives in Chorleywood in the Three Rivers District in southwest Hertfordshire .

politics

Gauke has been a member of the Conservative Party since 1993. In the 2001 election , he first ran for a seat in the British House of Commons , but was defeated by the Labor Party candidate in the Brent East constituency . In the 2005 election he ran successfully in the constituency of South West Hertfordshire to succeed his party colleague Richard Page , who did not run again. Gauke was able to defend this seat in 2010 , 2015 and 2017 .

The then opposition leader David Cameron appointed Gauke to his shadow cabinet in July 2007 and, after the change of government in May 2010, to the treasury as State Secretary . After changing his position there twice, Gauke joined the cabinet meetings of the government under Theresa May as Chief Secretary in July 2016 . In the May II cabinet , Gauke was initially Minister for Labor and Pensions , and in January 2018 he was appointed Minister of Justice and Lord Chancellor . At the same time he was appointed to the Privy Council.

Gauke belongs to the liberal wing of his party and is seen as an opponent of a Brexit without an agreement . Since Boris Johnson had mentioned this as a possibility in the course of his candidacy to succeed May as prime minister and his priority was to meet the originally planned exit date at the end of October 2019, Gauke announced that he did not want to belong to a cabinet under Johnson's leadership. He therefore resigned his two government posts on July 24, the day Johnson was inaugurated , and subsequently headed a group of MPs from his parliamentary group who wanted to prevent an unregulated Brexit in any case and which the media called “Gaukeward” Squad ”. On September 3, 2019, they ensured with their votes that a legislative proposal tabled by the opposition with a corresponding target was placed on the agenda of the lower house.

On September 4, 2019, Gauke and 20 other members of the Conservative Party were expelled from the parliamentary group due to their voting behavior. Another, Phillip Lee , joined the Liberal Democrats on his own initiative . This also meant that he, like the others, would be denied a renewed candidacy for the Conservatives in accordance with the party statutes. After a decision had been made at the local level to set up Gagan Mohindra as a local politician for the early general election in December 2019 , Gauke announced that he would run as an independent candidate in his constituency. However, he lost his re-election.

Web links

• Personal Website (English)
• David Gauke on the UK Parliament website
• David Gauke on the UK Government website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the historical register of Hansard , accessed on November 15, 2019. (English)
2. ^ Privy Council appointments: Arlene Foster, Ruth Davidson, David Gauke and Ed Vaizey. Press release on the UK Government website of July 13, 2016, accessed November 16, 2019. (English)
3. ↑ David Gauke 'to resign' if next PM backs no-deal Brexit. BBC , July 7, 2019, accessed November 18, 2019
4. ↑ Cathrin Kahlweit: How the ex-attorney general wants to stop Johnson. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 3, 2019, accessed on November 18, 2019.
5. ↑ Oliver Kühn: British government throws dissenters from the parliamentary group. FAZ.net , September 4, 2019, accessed on September 5, 2019
6. ↑ General election 2019: Ex-Tory David Gauke to stand as independent. BBC, November 13, 2019, accessed November 15, 2019
7. ↑ Hertfordshire South West Parliamentary constituency , BBC, December 13, 2019, accessed January 2, 2020.