Guto Bebb

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Guto Bebb

Guto ap Owain Bebb (born October 9, 1968 in Wrexham ) is a Welsh Conservative Party politician . He has been a member of the House of Commons since 2010 .

Life

Education and professional career

Bebb received his education at the Sir Hugh Owen School in Caernarfon . This was followed by studies at Aberystwyth University from which he graduated in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts in history . In 1993 he founded a management consultancy . He also ran a bookstore with his wife until 2002.

Political career

Bebb originally belonged to the Plaid Cymru and was its chairman in the Caernarfon constituency , but switched to the Conservative Party in 2001 because of his Euro-skeptical views. The following year he stood for this in a by-election in the constituency of Ogmore , but only achieved 7.5% of the vote. In 2003 he entered the constituency of Conwy in the elections to the National Assembly for Wales , but was again clearly defeated. In the British general election in 2005 he ran in the constituency of Conwy , where he came in second place behind the Labor Party candidate , Betty Williams . For the British general election in 2010 , his party nominated him for the newly created constituency of Aberconwy . He prevailed with 35.8% against the second-placed candidate of the Labor Party. Since taking office he has been a member of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee , a committee of the House of Commons responsible for overseeing the Wales Office and maintaining relations with the National Assembly for Wales. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Expense Committee . On September 4, 2019, Bebb was expelled from the Conservative Party faction due to his parliamentary opposition to a Brexit without an EU exit agreement.

Bebb announced in July 2019 that he would not run again in the upcoming general election due to differences of opinion with Boris Johnson .

Private

Bebb was born in Wrexham. His family is originally from Bangor and Blaenau Ffestiniog . He is a grandson of the author and co-founder of Plaid Cymru , Ambrose Bebb . In 1993 he married his wife Esyllt with whom he has five children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Hannaby: Guide to the new intake of Welsh MPs ( English ) BBC News. May 18, 2010. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
  2. ^ Homepage of the committee
  3. ↑ Mirror: Full list of 21 Tory rebels losing the whip in brutal no-deal Brexit purge
  4. ↑ FAZ.net: British government throws dissenters from the parliamentary group
  5. ↑ Jessica Elgot: Tory MP to stand down over grave concerns about Johnson as PM . In: The Guardian . July 14, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed October 12, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Bebb, Guto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bebb, Guto ap Owain (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Wrexham