Biography:
Michael Fabricant was re-elected MP for Lichfield on May 7th 2015 with 28398 votes, taking 55.2% of the vote.
In May 1997 he was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for the constituency of Lichfield and was re-elected with a much increased majority in June 2001 and with a still higher majority in the May 2005 election. Prior to that, he had been Member of Parliament for Mid Staffordshire since 1992 until the Parliamentary boundaries were changed and the constituency was abolished. (Mid Staffordshire included the City of Lichfield.) In the 1987 General Election, he fought South Shields, but lost.
In May 2005 he was made a Whip with responsibility for ensuring the management for the Conservative Parliamentary Party of Government legislation from two Ministries as it passes through the House of Commons. Immediately prior to that appointment, he was Shadow Minister for Economic Affairs with responsibilities overlapping Trade & Industry and the Treasury. His work included ‘shadowing’ E-Commerce, Technology, and The Post Office. Between 2010 and 2012 he has been Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury.
He is active in a number of All-Party Parliamentary interest groups including being Chairman of the Royal Marines All-Party Group (he served with the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme attached to the Royal Marines in 1998), he is an officer on a number of other All-Party Parliamentary Committees including The Film Industry, Cable & Satellite, Smoking & Health, Men’s Health, Obesity, and the Motorcycle Group.
Michael has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Law from Loughborough University, a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from the University of Sussex, and undertook postgraduate doctoral research in Economics and Econometrics at Oxford, London University, and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
He was a 100 and 220 yard sprinter for school and university – before they changed it all to metres – and speaks reasonable French and German and a little Dutch and Russian too.
For eleven years prior to his election to Parliament, he was a Senior Director and Co-founder of an international broadcast manufacturing and management group whose clients in 48 countries throughout the world included the BBC, Radio Moscow, the Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Uganda, the Italian State Broadcasting Service, Icelandic State Broadcasting Service, and many independent radio stations both abroad and in the United Kingdom including Capital Radio. He was responsible for the long-term strategy of the group and for its export sales, travelling to – and working in – many overseas countries. He advised the Russian Federation in its early days after the collapse of the Soviet Union on how to operate a broadcasting network in a democratic society.
Prior to all this, he worked as a radio broadcaster in news and current affairs and was also managing director of an independent radio company whose President was Dame Vera Lynn……. His first job was as an economist.
Before going up to university, he taught physics and chemistry for a year in a state secondary school. And while studying for his doctorate, he tutored Master’s degree students at London University and the University of Southern California in statistical methods in economics. Prior to his being elected to Parliament, he was Chairman of the Brighton Pavilion Conservative Association for three years and, before that, the Chairman of its Political Committee. He initiated a series of Conservative Political Conferences hosted at foreign embassies in London including those of the former Soviet Union, South Africa, and Turkey. At the Conservative Party Conference, he inaugurated and edited the first daily Party Newspaper. Two years later he organised Europe’s first Party Conference Radio Station broadcasting in stereo FM continuously through the conference week.
He was active in Conservative Party politics at university, but when he was 13 he stood in school elections as the Communist Party Candidate because someone was already chosen as the Conservative! Since being elected to represent Lichfield, Michael always feels compelled to check whether crockery is made in Staffordshire and toilets from the town of Armitage. His other outside interests include fell walking, canal boating, reading, ski-ing, Mozart operas, listening to the Omnibus edition of the Archers – and eating out.
Constituency: Lichfield
Constituency Address: 8 Bore Street, Lichfield, WS13 6LL
Constituency Tel: 01543 417868
Date of Birth: 12 June 1950
Email: http://www.michael.fabricant.mp.co.uk/contact.ihtml
Party: Conservative
Personal Website: www.michael.fabricant.mp.co.uk
Westminster Address: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Westminster Tel: 020 7219 5022
Twitter: @Mike_Fabricant
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michael-Fabricant/298445440236731?fref=ts
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