Patrick McLoughlin

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Patrick McLoughlin (2010)

Sir Patrick Allen McLoughlin PC (* the thirtieth November 1957 in Stafford , Staffordshire , England ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party . He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between July 14, 2016 and January 8, 2019 , as which he served in both cabinets of Prime Minister Theresa May .

biography

Professional career and election to the House of Commons

After attending the Cardinal Griffin Roman Catholic School and the Staffordshire College of Agriculture , he worked in agriculture for five years from 1974 to 1979 before he worked as a miner at the Littleton Colliery in Cannock , like his father and grandfather . There he became a member of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and then represented the industry in the marketing department for the western district of the National Coal Board .

His political career began when he joined the Conservative Party in 1977. Initially, he was a member of numerous national committees and, from 1982 to 1984, Vice-Chairman of the National Young Conservatives , the youth organization of the Conservative Party. He was also involved in local politics and was not only a member of the Cannock Chase County Council between 1980 and 1987, but also a member of the Staffordshire County Council between 1981 and 1987.

In 1986, he was at a by-election ( by-election ) for the first time members of the lower house ( House of Commons ) chosen, scoring just a majority of 100 votes. From then until 2010 he represented the interests of the constituency of West Derbyshire in the House of Commons . Most recently, he was re-elected in the general election on May 6, 2010 with 52.01 percent of the vote and now represents the Derbyshire Dales constituency .

Junior Minister and Chief Whip of the Conservative Party

As early as 1989 he took over his first post as "Junior Minister" in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and was Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Transport until 1992. In the subsequent government of Prime Minister John Major , he was first Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Employment and then from 1993 to 1994 in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

After working as assistant to the parliamentary director of the government faction ( Assistant Government Whip ) from 1995 to 1996, he was first Head Commissioner in the Treasury and then from June 1997 to 1998 so-called Pairing Whip . As such, he was responsible for negotiating the absence of other parliamentarians when members of his own parliamentary group were absent.

Between 1998 and 2005 he was first Deputy Chief Executive of the Opposition in the House of Commons ( Deputy Chief Whip ) before he was Opposition Chief Whip between December 2005 and May 2010 . In June 2005 he was appointed a member of the Privy Council . In May 2009, he was charged with receiving government funding for his second home in Derbyshire . In addition, it has been reported in press reports that his wife is an assistant in his constituency office and receives an annual allowance of £ 40,000 .

After the election victory of the Conservative Party in the general election in 2010 , he joined on 11 May 2010 as parliamentary chief executive of the government faction in the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in the Cabinet Cameron I a. In 2012 he received the post of Minister of Transport. Under the new Prime Minister Theresa May, McLoughlin received the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and that of the chairman of the Conservative Party. McLoughlin was knighted as part of the Resignation Honors of former Prime Minister David Cameron .

Patrick McLoughlin lost his position as chairman of the Conservative Party to Brandon Lewis on January 8, 2018 in a cabinet reshuffle .

Web links

• Parliament's homepage
• Conservative Party homepage
• Homepage as a Member of Parliament ( They Work For You )
• THE GUARDIAN: Patrick McLoughlin: Electoral history and profile ( Memento from August 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MATLOCK MERCURY: Patrick McLoughlin claims election victory (May 5, 2010)
2. ↑ THE TELEGRAPH: MPs' expenses: Patrick McLoughlin, Cameron's' smell tester 'claims £ 3,000 for windows (May 19, 2009)
3. ↑ Theresa May's cabinet: Who's in and who's out? BBC News, July 14, 2016, accessed July 16, 2016 . 
4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 61678, HMSO, London, August 16, 2016, p. RH2 ( PDF , accessed September 7, 2016, English).
5. ↑ "Theresa May's cabinet: Who's in and who's out?" BBC 9 January 2018