Constituency : Sutton and Cheam 1997-2015
Paul recovered Sutton and Cheam for the Liberal Democrats unseating Tory grandee Dame Olga Maitland.
Paul was born in Carshalton. He was educated at Glastonbury High School for Boys and South Bank Polytechnic. He worked in the shoe and printing businesses before becoming a research officer at Hounslow Borough Council. He joined the SDP and was elected a councillor in 1986. He was deputy leader of Sutton Borough Council from 1994 to 1997. In 1988 he started working for the ALDC. He stood for Sutton and Cheam in 1992 coming a good second.
Paul became spokesman on the environment then Social Security. After 2001 he was Health spokesman. In 2006 he became Chief Whip. He was a recognised expert on the elderly and introduced the Care of Older and Incapacitated People ( Human Rights ) Bill in 2006. He was a health minister in the coalition government between 2010 and 2012.
Paul was defeated in 2015. He became chair of Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust a few months later. He became a part time professor of mental health policy at Birmingham University in 2016. He did not stand in 2017. Instead, he became chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
He is now 56.
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