Simon Henry Ward Hughes

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Sir Simon Henry Ward Hughes

Sir Simon Henry Ward Hughes (born May 17, 1951 in Cheshire , England ) is a British politician and former member of the Liberal Democrats .

Life

Hughes was born in Cheshire in 1951 and grew up in Wales . He attended The Cathedral School in Llandaff , the Christ College in Brecon then studied at Selwyn College of the University of Cambridge , where he worked in law graduated. In Bruges he received the certificate for Advanced European Studies . In 1974 Hughes became a member of the Inner Temple Bar Association , and in 1981 he moved to Bermondsey , a borough of London .

In addition to his professional work as a lawyer, Hughes was politically active. Hughes was first elected to the House of Commons as MP for Bermondsey in February 1983 . Hughes was re-elected in the following general election. Within the Liberal Democrats, Hughes holds the office of Vice President of the Liberal Democrat Christian Forum . Hughes lost 2004 as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the mayoral elections in London, where he received 15.22 percent of the vote. In 2006, Hughes was outed as bisexual by the British newspaper The Sun. In the intra-party struggle for chairmanship of the Liberal Democrats party, Hughes lost in 2006.

In the 2015 general election , Hughes lost his seat in the Southwark and Bermondsey constituency to the Labor candidate. The offer from Nick Clegg to get him after this defeat by being included in the Dissolution Honors List with a life peerage title for a seat in the upper house of Parliament, Hughes declined. Simon Hughes was knighted in the 2015 Birthday Honors and has been able to call himself Sir ever since . Sir Simon will run again for his constituency in the 2017 early general election.

Hughes is a member of the Church of England and currently lives in London.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pinknews: Simon Hughes I'm bisexual ( Memento from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Vince Cable among four Lib Dems to turn down Lords offers from Clegg in The Guardian, May 15, 2015, accessed May 16, 2015
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 61256, HMSO, London, June 13, 2015, p. B2 ( PDF , accessed June 23, 2015, English).
  4. ↑ Election 2017: Which MPs are standing down and which hope to return? BBC News , April 21, 2017, accessed April 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Simon Henry Ward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hughes, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, former member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheshire , England