David Hunt (politician)

David Hunt

David James Fletcher Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral , PC , MBE (born May 21, 1942 ) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Minister for Wales, as well as Minister for Employment and Chancellor of the Duchy during the tenure of Prime Minister John Major of Lancaster was.

Life

Studies, involvement in youth organizations and member of the House of Commons

After visiting the Liverpool College studied Hunt Law at the University of Bristol and started after graduation and the lawyer's approval in 1968 as a lawyer working as well as a solicitor and partner of Beachcroft LLP , an international law firm for commercial law .

During his studies he was President of the Conservative Association of the University of Bristol in 1970 and then between 1972 and 1973 chairman of the National Young Conservatives, the youth association of the Conservative Party and from 1974 to 1976 Vice-President of the European Conservative and Christian Democratic Youth Community, the umbrella organization of European youth associations conservative and Christian Democratic party and predecessor organization of the Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP). He was also active as chairman of the British Youth Council from 1971 to 1974 and was also a member of the economic planning council for the South West England region from 1972 to 1976 and a member of the government's advisory commission for the organization of pop festivals as well as governor of the in Strasbourg- based European Youth Foundation .

After being in 1970 and in February and October 1974 in vain in the constituencies Bristol South and Kingswood unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons had tried, he was at a by-election ( by-election ) on 11 March 1976 as the candidate of the Conservative Party elected for the first time as a member of the lower house, where she initially represented the Wirral constituency and, after the general election from June 9, 1983 to May 1, 1997, the Wirral West constituency .

During his long parliamentary membership, he first speaker of the opposition Tory - Group for shipping and shipbuilding, before he then Parliamentary private secretary John Nott , who from 1979 to 1981 was initially trade minister and then defense minister in 1981. Subsequently, he was Hunt first deputy Whip and then from 1983 to 1984 Whip of the conservative parliamentary group. Between 1978 and 1980 he was also President of the British Youth Council and between 1983 and 1984 he was also Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. He was also chairman of the British Atlantic Young Politicians Group from 1979 to 1981 and then President of the Atlantic Association of Young Political Leaders from 1981 to 1983.

Promotion to Minister

In 1984 he took over his first government office as "Junior Minister" with the appointment of Parliamentary Undersecretary in the Ministry of Energy and was then Deputy Chief Executive of the Government Group ( Deputy Chief Whip ) between 1987 and 1989 with the title of Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household . He then became Minister for Local Government and City Centers.

After Prime Minister Major took office as Margaret Thatcher's successor , he became Secretary of State for Wales in May 1990 and succeeded Gillian Shephard as Secretary of State for Employment in July 1993 as part of a government reshuffle . After another cabinet reshuffle, Hunt was between July 1994 and June 1995 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for Civil Service and Science. Most recently he was again Minister for Wales in the Cabinet Major between June and July 1995. After he was also chairman of the Tory Reform Group from 1991 to 1997 , he has been the patron of this parliamentary association of his party since 1997.

Member of the House of Lords

After leaving the House of Commons, he was raised to the nobility in 1997 as a Life Peer with the title of Baron Hunt of Wirral , of Wirral in the County of Merseyside, and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since .

In the following years he was particularly involved in the English-Speaking Union (ESU), a non-profit organization promoting the English language . There he became governor in 1998 and was then deputy chairman between 2000 and 2005, before he was chairman from 2005 to 2011 and chairman of the International Union of ESU from 2008 to 2011. Furthermore, between 2004 and 2008 he was chairman or president of the advisory board for professional standards of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), the professional association of the British insurance industry , and from 2011 chaired the Press Complaints Commission, which was dissolved in 2014 . He is also active as Vice President of the Holocaust Educational Trust and Deputy President of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents .

In the House of Lords he was the opposition spokesman for economics, companies and the reform of regulations from 2008 to 2010 and was also a member of the shadow cabinet of the Conservative Party between January 2009 and May 2010, where he was “Shadow Minister for Economics, Companies and the Reform of Regulations”.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament (accessed December 25, 2011)
• David Hunt at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You