Tony Newton (politician)

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Antony Harold Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree OBE PC (born August 29, 1937 in Harwich , Essex - † March 25, 2012 ) was a British politician ( Conservative Party ).

Career

After visiting the Friends School Saffron Walden , he studied at Trinity College of Oxford University .

His political career began in 1974 Newton, when he was a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time as a deputy in the lower house (House of Commons) was chosen. There he represented the Braintree constituency until 1997 .

After the electoral victory of the Tories in the general election in May 1979 , he was initially assistant Whip and thus assistant to the parliamentary director of the parliamentary group of the Conservative Party in the lower house. He was then Lord Commissioner of the Treasury between 1981 and 1982 and then moved to the Ministry of Social Security. There he was first Parliamentary Undersecretary of State , then from 1984 to 1986 Minister of State for Social Security and People with Disabilities and most recently from 1986 to 1988 Minister of State for Health.

In 1988 he was appointed to a cabinet for the first time by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . After a government reshuffle in 1989 he was appointed Minister for Social Security by Thatcher and held this office under Thatcher's successor, John Major, until 1992.

In a cabinet reshuffle, he became Lord President of the Council in 1992 and as such was at the same time leader of the conservative majority faction in the House of Commons (Leader of the House of Commons) until 1997 .

Newton, who was also an Officer of the Order of the British Empire , was appointed Life Peer after leaving the House of Commons on October 31, 1997 as Baron Newton of Braintree , of Coggeshall in the County of Essex, and was thus also a member of the House of Lords ( House of Lords) .

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SURNAME Newton, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newton, Antony Harold, Baron Newton of Braintree (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Harwich
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2012