Stephen Dorrell

Stephen Dorrell speaking to the National Health Service (NHS) in Manchester on July 11, 2011

Stephen Dorrell (* 25. March 1952 in Worcester , Worcestershire , England ) is a British politician of the Liberal Democrats (formerly he was the Conservative Party on), the 1979-2015 member of the House of Commons and, among others, Minister of National Heritage, and was Minister of Health.

Life

After attending school in Uppingham Dorrell studied at Brasenose College of the University of Oxford . During his studies in 1974 he was personal assistant to Peter Walker , who was, among other things, Minister of Commerce and Industry in the cabinet of Prime Minister Edward Heath . In the general election of October 1974 , he ran for the first time, but without success as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the constituency of Kingston-upon-Hull East for a seat in the House of Commons. He then took over as director in the family business operates, the clothing factory Faithfull Group Ltd .

In the general election of May 3, 1979 , he was elected to the House of Commons for the first time in the Loughborough constituency and has been a member of the House of Commons since the May 1, 1997 general election for the Charnwood constituency .

During his long membership in parliament he was from 1983 to 1987 first Peter Walker, who was now energy minister in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet , then deputy whip and from 1988 to 1990 whip of the conservative government group in the lower house.

In 1990 he took over a government post as "Junior Minister" for the first time when he was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Health. He then served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury between April 1992 and July 1994 and was also a member of the House Committee on Public Finances.

As part of a reshuffle him prime minister appointed John Major in July 1994 to the Minister of National Heritage, ( Secretary of State for the National Heritage ) before moving to another reshuffle in July 1995 Health Minister ( Secretary of State for Health was) and this office until held the election defeat of the Conservative Party in the general election of May 1, 1997.

Afterwards he was appointed to the shadow cabinet of his party and belonged to it until 1998 as "shadow minister for education and employment". He was later a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Consolidation Laws from November 2005 to May 2010 and has been both a member of the House of Commons Cooperation Committee and chairman of the House of Commons Health Committee since 2010. In the general election of May 6, 2010, Dorrell was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons with 49.53 percent of the vote in his constituency. In 2015 he was no longer bidding for the Charnwood headquarters.

On April 14, 2019, he briefly moved from the Conservative Party to Change UK - The Independent Group , but on October 6, 2019 he joined the Liberal Democrats and will vote for them in the 2019 general election in the Buckingham constituency , which was formerly of Speaker John Bercow was represented, apply.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament ( Memento of 4 March 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Stephen Dorrell at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You
• Stephen Dorrell: Electoral history and profile (April 25, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive ). In: The Guardian (accessed December 22, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephen Dorrell: As nationalists grip the Tories, I now support Change UK | Stephen Dorrell. The Guardian, April 14, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Ex-Conservative cabinet minister Stephen Dorrell becomes latest to join Lib Dems. metro.co.uk, October 6, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Ex-Minister Dorrell to stand as Lib Dem MP. November 2, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Stephen Dorrell selected as Liberal Democrat candidate for Buckingham at the next general election. Accessed November 4, 2019 .