Timothy Kirkhope

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Timothy John Robert Kirkhope (born April 29, 1945 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) is a British lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party and has been a member of the European Parliament since 1999 . He was previously a member of the British House of Commons .

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Kirkhope studied 1964-1969 jurisprudence at the private University College of Law in Guildford . From 1973 he worked as a lawyer in his own law firm and from 1977 to 1987 as a partner in the law firm Wilkinson, Marshall, Clayton and Gibson .

In 1982 he was elected to the Northumberland Regional Parliament and served as Head of Newcastle Airport . In the British general election in 1987, he won a seat in the House of Commons, where he was deputy chairman of the Conservatives from 1990. From 195 he was Parliamentary Secretary of State in the UK Home Office , where he was responsible for immigration , border control and gambling . However, when the Conservatives were defeated in 1997, Kirkhope lost his seat in parliament. From 1997 to 1999 he therefore worked again as a lawyer.

In the European elections in 1999 won Kirkhope a seat in the European Parliament , where he joined the Christian Democrat-conservative head of the delegation of the Conservative Party and spokesman for Group EPP-ED in the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs was. From 2002 to 2004 he was a member of the European Convention which drafted the EU Constitutional Treaty. From 2003, at the request of the Conservative Party's shadow interior minister, he headed a working group that worked out proposals for the British Conservatives' future asylum policy.

Following the 2004 European elections , Kirkhope was elected to the post of first vice-chairman of the EPP-ED Group, which he held for a year. At the same time he worked again for the British Conservatives on a report on immigration policy. In 2007 he resigned as head of the UK delegation to the EPP-ED Group, but returned to the post after his successor, Giles Chichester , became embroiled in an expense scandal.

After the European elections in 2009 , the British Conservatives left the EPP-ED Group and instead joined the newly formed Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), of which Kirkhope became interim chair. Initially, he was also intended as permanent group leader, but he renounced this post in favor of the Pole Michał Kamiński . This was originally intended as a candidate of the parliamentary group for the office of parliamentary vice-president , but had failed in the election due to the British conservative Edward McMillan-Scott , who ran against the will of the group. Kirkhope then pushed through the exclusion of McMillan-Scotts from the parliamentary group and left Kamiński to chair the parliamentary group, he himself took the newly created post of "parliamentary group chairman". He is also a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs , the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality .

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  1. ↑ EurActiv, Jul 15, 2009: Tory politician shakes eurosceptics in parliament .

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SURNAME Kirkhope, Timothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirkhope, Timothy John Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle upon Tyne