Roger Gale

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Sir Roger James Gale (born August 20, 1943 in Poole , Dorset ) is a British Conservative Party politician . Since 1983 he has been a member of the House of Commons , the lower house of the British Parliament.

Life

Personal life and education

Gale was educated at Southbourne Preparatory School and Hardye's School in Dorchester . He completed his further education at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama .

Roger Gale is married for the third time. His first marriage was with Wendy Dawn Bowman from 1964 to 1967. In 1971 he married Susan Linda Sampson, they have a daughter. The marriage ended in divorce in 1980. In the same year he married Susan Gabrielle Marks; from this marriage there are two sons.

activity

Gale is the only former pirate radio - disc jockey , the Member of Parliament was. From August 1964 to January 1965 he worked at Radio Caroline . From late 1965 to 1967, Gale helped set up Radio 270, Voice of the North . Gale was also the personal assistant to the general manager at Universal Studios . From 1972 he worked as a reporter for Radio London ( BBC ). He was the producer of Radio 1's Newsbeat, then Radio 4's Today from 1973 to 1976. In 1976 he was appointed director of BBC Children's Television. He left the BBC in 1979 and went to Thames Television , where he stayed until his election to Parliament.

Gale was knighted in 2012 for public and political merit.

Parliamentary career

Gale joined the Conservative Party in 1964 and was elected vice chairman in Holborn and St. Pancras in 1971 . He was selected to represent Birmingham Northfield in the 1982 election. He lost this by-election to John Spellar with only 289 votes. However, he was elected to the House of Commons in 1983 with a majority of 14,545 votes for the constituency of North Thannet in Kent and has been a member there ever since.

He was, among other functions, a member of the Broadcasting Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party, led by Iain Duncan Smith, from 2001 to 2003.

Gale is an advocate of the death penalty but, unlike many Conservative MPs, supported the ban on fox hunting . He is said to be a Eurosceptic , although he has spoken out against Brexit . He has been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2010 and currently heads the 18-member British parliamentary delegation there. It belongs to the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Conservatives of (European Conservatives Group).

He is a founding member and president of Conservative Animal Welfare, a group of Conservative MPs who work to promote animal welfare. Gale has spoken out against the introduction of same-sex marriage :

"" Marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Has been historically. Remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to rewrite the lexicon. It will not do. ""

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pirate Radio Hall of Fame - Disc Jockeys EG .
  2. ↑ Knights Bachelor , The London Gazette, December 31, 2011, last accessed October 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ Roger Gale , BBC, October 16, 2002, last accessed October 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Gay marriage: MPs urged to back Bill , BBC, February 5, 2013, last accessed October 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Gale, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gale, Sir Roger James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Poole , Dorset