Wednesday, 3 July 2019
2318 Jeremy Browne
Constituency : Taunton ( Deane after 2010) 2005-15
Jeremy avenged Jackie Ballard's defeat by recapturing Taunton Dene from the Tories. by 573 votes.
Jeremy is the son of a diplomat. He was educated at Bedales School and Nottingham University where he was President of the Student Union in 1992. He became a researcher for Alan Beith in 1993. He also held business consultancies. He became the party's Director of Press and Broadcasting under Paddy Ashdown. He stood in Enfield Southgate in 1997 coming third. He is a free market liberal on the right of the party and somewhat Eurosceptic.
Jeremy became a home affairs spokesman. He was campaign press secretary for Menzies Campbell in his leadership campaign. He became shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2008.
In 2009 Jeremy was asked to repay mortgage interest claimed on expenses following the Legg Report. He successfully appealed the decision on the grounds that his arrangement saved the taxpayer money.
Jeremy increased his majority to nearly 4,000 in 2010.
Jeremy was appointed a Foreign Office minister in 2010. Because of his plummy accent, civil servants had to be reminded that he was not a Tory. In 2012 he was moved to the Home Office but was sacked a year later for getting too cosy in coalition. He argued that he was trying to make the government work rather than look reluctant in his post. He believed that the party had weakened its case by distancing itself from the government after 2012 and offering just "insipid moderation".In 2014 he announced he would be standing down at the next election. That same year he published Race plan; an authentic liberal plan to get Britain fit for "The Global Race" arguing for economic liberalism to meet the challenge of globalisation. He claimed to be a "critical friend" of the party. The Conservative party made repeated attempts to recruit him.
Jeremy went into higher education as a lecturer in International Relations. In 2015 he became Special Representative for the City of London Corporation in the European Union. He stepped down in 2018 and became International Business Advisor for Aberdeen Standard Investments.
He is now 49.
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