David Shutt, Baron Shutt of Greetland

David Shutt, Baron Shutt of Greetland

David Trevor Shutt, Baron Shutt of Greetland OBE PC (born March 16, 1942 ) is a British politician of the Liberal Party and now the Liberal Democrats , who ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons seven times and has been a Life Peer member of the House of Lords is.

Life

Unsuccessful lower house candidates and local politicians

Shutt, who by profession auditor is the early 1970s, began his political career in the Liberal Party and a candidate in the constituency Sowerby in the general election on 18 June 1970 , 28 February 1974 , 10 October 1974 and 3 May 1979 respectively without Success for a mandate in the House of Commons.

In the meantime, however, he was elected to the council of the Metropolitan Borough Calderdale for the first time in 1973 and was a member of this until 1990. During this time Shutt, who was director of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust between 1975 and 2010 , was also chairman of the Liberal Party parliamentary group in Borough Council from 1979 to 1982, and then from 1982 to 1983 mayor of Calderdale.

While he had run again unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in the elections of June 9, 1983 and June 11, 1987 in the Calder Valley constituency , he acted from 1985 to 2010 as a trustee of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. After he last ran for the Liberal Democrats, which emerged from the merger of the Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1988, in the general election on April 9, 1992 in the constituency of Pudsey, again unsuccessfully for a member of the House of Commons, he was again in 1995 elected to the council of the Metropolitan Borough Calderdale and belonged to it until 2003. During this time he was also chairman of the Liberal Democrats from 1995 to 2000. In 1993 he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire for his services .

House of Lords

By a letters patent dated May 12, 2000, Shutt, who also became Privy Councilor , was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Shutt of Greetland , of Greetland and Stainland in the County of West Yorkshire . Shortly thereafter took place on 16 May 2000 on its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the House of Lords he belongs to the Liberal Democrats.

During his previous membership in the House of Lords, Lord Shutt was Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords between 2001 and 2010 , and between 2002 and 2005 he was Deputy Chief Whip and then until 2010 Parliamentary Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords was. During this time he was also spokesman for his group for Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2005 and at the same time from 2001 to 2004 for international development.

After the general election on May 6, 2010 and the subsequent formation of a coalition government by the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats, Lord Shutt once again served as Deputy Chief Whip of the government between 2010 and 2012 with the honorary title of Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard . At the same time he was briefly spokesman for culture, media and sport in 2010 and then from 2010 to 2012 spokesman for the liberal-democratic parliamentary group for Northern Ireland, transport and Wales . In 2012 he was followed by Richard Newby, Baron Newby as Deputy Chief Whip and Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed November 30, 2012)
• David Shutt at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 30, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 28, 2012)