Howard Flight, Baron Flight

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Howard Flight, Baron Flight

Howard Emerson Flight, Baron Flight (born June 16, 1948 ) is a British Conservative Party politician and a member of the House of Lords .

Youth and personal

Flight graduated from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business . From 1979 to 1998 he was a financial advisor and director in various banks. He is the author of All you Need to know about Exchange Rates (1989) and editor of The City in Europe and the World (2005). He has been married to Christabel since 1974; they have four children.

Political career

In 1974 he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Commons in the Bermondsey constituency . From 1997 to 2005 he was an MP in the House of Commons for the constituency of Arundel and South Downs . He had several positions in the shadow cabinet: 1999–2001 Economic Secretary to the Treasury to 2001 Paymaster General , finally Chief Secretary to the Treasury .

Spending cut affair

Flight resigned as vice chairman of the Conservative Party on March 24, 2005 after a testimony of his own that was secretly taped at a Conservative Congress. He had said that there would be far more spending cuts under a Conservative government than they said during the campaign. Conservative Chairman Michael Howard dismissed Flight from his post as Whip and announced that he would no longer be a candidate for the constituency of Arundel and South Downs in 2005 . Flight refused to accept this and said that only the local association had the right to vote him out. On March 29, 2005, he announced that he had received a statement from a Crown Attorney confirming his view. The local association Arundel and South Downs refused to look for a new candidate, but eventually gave in. Flight confirmed that he will not run as an independent and that he will not take action against his election by the local association.

elections

On April 6th, he agreed not to run as a candidate and the party began looking for a new candidate. The nominated candidate Nick Herbert won the election.

Flight was put on the Conservative A-List for the 2010 election, but it was not enough to secure a seat for him. On November 19, 2010 it was announced that Flight would be raised to a life peer and move into the House of Lords for the Conservative Party . His full title is Baron Flight of Worcester in the County of Worcester .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former MPs go to the Lords , ePolitix , November 19, 2010
  2. ↑ Flight fight to save career , BBC , March 28, 2005
  3. ↑ goldlist at conservativehome
  4. ↑ http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2010/11/peerages-honours-and-appointments-2-57256
  5. ↑ http://www.parliament.uk
personal data
SURNAME Flight, Howard, Baron Flight
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flight, Howard Emerson, Baron Flight
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons and Member of the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1948