Phillip Lee

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Phillip Lee

Phillip James Lee (* 28. September 1970 in Taplow , Buckinghamshire ) is a British politician , who from 2010 to 2019 as MP for the constituency Bracknell the House of Commons was a member. Lee was a member of the Conservative Party until he converted to the Liberal Democrats on September 3, 2019 . Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his majority in parliament.

Life

Phillip Lee studied human biology and biological anthropology at King's College in London and at Keble College of the University of Oxford , followed by medical school at Imperial College London joined, where he also received his doctorate . From 1999 he worked as a doctor at several hospitals in and around London before he started working as a family doctor .

politics

Philip Lee was a member of the Conservative Party from 1992. In 2001 he stood in a by-election for a Local Council in Beaconsfield . In the British general election in 2005 , he ran as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the constituency of Blaenau Gwent ( Wales ), but failed at the Labor candidate Peter Law .

In the British general election in 2010 he was elected member of the House of Commons for the Conservative Party in the Bracknell ( Berkshire ) constituency when he prevailed against the Liberal Democrat candidate, Ram Earwicker, by a margin of over 15,000 votes. He also won this constituency in 2015 and 2017 .

From 2016 to 2018 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice. He resigned on June 12, 2018 due to differences over the planned Brexit .

In January 2019, he became chairman of Right To Vote , a bipartisan initiative by members of the lower and upper houses of the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats or The Independent Group For Change or who are independent. Right To Vote is aiming for a referendum on the exit agreement with the EU.

In the Brexit referendum, Lee had voted for Remain, i.e. the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union, while 53.9% of those who voted in his constituency, Bracknell, voted for Brexit. Lee lost a vote on his no confidence vote for the Conservative Party in his Bracknell constituency in June 2019 due to his stance on Brexit .

Lee made his transition from Conservatives to Liberal Democrats on September 3, 2019 during a debate in the House of Commons, when he left his seat in the ranks of the ranks of the ruling faction in the midst of a speech by Prime Minister Johnson and crossed the center aisle to the opposition bench, where he moved next the Liberal Democrats MP Jane Dodds sat. In a public letter to the Prime Minister, Lee stated that the Brexit discussions "have regrettably turned this once great party [the Conservatives, note] into a narrow faction," in which conservative attitudes are measured by how radical one is for them Exit the EU. The Conservative Party was "afflicted by the twin diseases of populism and English nationalism".

In the 2019 general election, Lee did not run in his previous constituency, but in the Wokingham constituency , which the conservative Brexit advocate John Redwood was able to win again.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data according to Who's Who 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d e Who is Phillip Lee and why did he leave the Tory party and join the Lib Dems? , metro.co.uk, September 4, 2019
  3. ↑ Biographical information on his website
  4. ↑ Dr Philip Lee , politics.co.uk, accessed September 4, 2019
  5. ↑ Victorious Law attacks' thuggery , BBC News , May 6, 2005
  6. ^ Minister Phillip Lee quits over Brexit strategy. BBC News, June 12, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Phillip Lee, Bracknell Tory MP, loses no confidence vote , BBC News , June 1, 2019
  8. ↑ Phillip Lee quits Tories, leaving government without a majority , The Guardian , September 3, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019. (English)
  9. ^ Brexit: Tory MP defects ahead of crucial no-deal vote. BBC News, September 3, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .
  10. ^ Jess Warren: Wokingham has a new Liberal Democrat candidate ahead of general election concerns. In: The Wokingham Paper. September 28, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 (UK English).
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Phillip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lee, Phillip James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Taplow , Buckinghamshire