Members Of Parliament in Winsford - Winsford Guardian

MPs: Stephen O'Brien MP; Paul Nuttall MEP;

Eddisbury (House of Commons)

Mr Stephen O'Brien MP (Conservative)

Surgery: 14 September 2012
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28 September 2012
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12 October 2012
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19 October 2012
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30 November 2012
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14 December 2012
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Eddisbury
Conservative Association
4 Church Walk
High Street
Tarporley
Cheshire CW6 0AJ

Surgery Tel: 020 7219 6315

MP Since - 1999 (By-election) Majority - 13,255 Born - 01/04/1957. Married, 2 sons & 1 daughter.
Education - Loretto School, Mombasa, Kenya; Handbridge School, Chester; Sedburgh School, Cumbria; Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Chester College of Law.
Previous Occupation -Solicitor, Articles, Freshfields (1981-88); Group Company Secretary & Director of Strategy/Corporate Affairs, Redland plc; Founded his own international business consultancy (1998-); PA to Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (2000-), Manufacturing Technologies Association (2005-).
Personal Overview - Won the 1999 Eddisbury By-election with a small mid term swing to the Conservatives. Has a legal background, with business experience (setting up his own Management Consultancy in Air Travel & Construction). He has shown some concern for countryside issues, but is not involved in hunting or fishing etc. Has gradually advanced through the opposition ranks during the tenure of several different party leaders to become a middle ranking spokesman and held a position as a junior Minister in the 2010 coalition Government, but returned to the backbenches at the 2012 reshuffle.
Political History - Chairman of Chichester Conservative Association (1998-99). MP Eddisbury (July 1999- by-election). Former Secretary of the Conservative Legal and Trade & Industry Committees. Member of the Education & Employment Select Committee, Education Sub-Committee (1999-2001), PPS to Francis Maude , Shadow Foreign Secretary (2000), PPS to Conservative Party Chairman, Rt. Hon. Michael Ancram MP (2001-02). Opposition Whip (2001-02). Shadow Foreign Secretary to the Treasury (2002), Paymaster General (2002-03), Shadow Secretary of State for Industry (2003-05), Shadow Minister for Education & Skills (2005), for Health (2005-10). Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for International Development (2010-12).
Characteristics - Syndic (Non Executive) Director of the Cambridge University Careers Service. His wife is a District Nurse. Became a MP in 1999 in the by-election caused by the resignation of Sir Alistair Goodlad, following his accceptance of the post of Governor General of Australia.

Business Tel: 020 7219 5173

Email: office@eddisburyconservatives.co.uk

Interests: Agriculture,Business & Finance,Small Business,Taxation,Aviation,Construction Industry,Transport,Law & Order

Commitee membership

• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Connecting Communities (Member)
• All-Party Parliamentary Youth Hostelling Group (Member)

North West (European Parliament)

Mr Paul Nuttall MEP (UK Independence)

MEP Since - 2009 Born - 1977. Married.
Education - Savio High School. Hugh Baird College. North Lincolnshire College (HND Sport Science) Edge Hill University BA (Hons) History. Liverpool Hope University, MA History. City and Guilds 7307 Teaching Qualification. Certificate in Education. Liverpool Hope University, PhD History (Pending).

Previous Occupation - History Lecturer at Hugh Baird College (2002-06). Lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope University (2003-06). European Parliamentary Assistant and Political Advisor to John Whittaker MEP (2006-08).

Personal Overview - Effectively replaced former UKIP MEP John Whittaker at the 2009 European Elections who he had worked for as an assistant at the Parliament for several years. Has an academic background as a lecturer in the Merseyside area. Politically, he has achieved relatively rapid promotion within the party in recent years, becoming Party Chairman in 2008. In terms of European politics, he has gained experience through his work for John Whittaker MEP, he has also acted as a political consultant to Godfrey Bloom MEP and has been Editor of the Bulletin from Brussels Magazine. As well as opposing Britain's membership of the European Union, his political interests include campaigning against political correctness as well as campaigning to save post offices and British pubs.

Political History - Joined UKIP (2004). General Election candidate for Bootle (2005). Candidate for Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council (2006,07,08). Chairman of South Sefton UKIP Branch (2005-2006). Secretary of Young Independence (2008-). Political Consultant to Godfrey
Bloom MEP (2008-09). Chairman of UKIP (2008-). MEP North West Region (2009-). Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (2009-). Substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education (2009-11).

Other Information - Member of the Executive Council of the United Commonwealth Society (2007-). Member of the Campaign Against Political Correctness (2006-). Member of the Freedom Association.
Intergroups - N/a.

Email: paul.nuttall@europarl.europa.eu

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Interests: Saving Post Offices from closure,Campaigning against Political Correctness

Commitee membership

• Environment, Public Health & Food Safety (Member)

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