Hartley Booth
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Vernon Edward Hartley Booth (born 17 July 1946) is a former British Conservative Party politician. From 1999 to 2012 he was chairman of the Uzbek British Trade and Industry Council at UK Trade & Investment.[1]
Early life and career
Booth was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, the University of Bristol and Downing College, Cambridge, where he graduated with LLM and PhD degrees. Called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1970, he was in legal practice for the next 14 years.[1]
Political career
In 1984 Booth became a
Having stood unsuccessfully for
Booth resigned in February 1994 as a parliamentary private secretary to Douglas Hogg, then the Foreign Office minister of state, after newspaper reports of a relationship with House of Commons researcher Emily Barr.[5] Despite his resignation, Booth insists that "there was no sexual impropriety" between himself and Barr.[6] This was politically embarrassing to the John Major government of the time, following the backlash of Major's Back to Basics initiative,[6] and in January 2015, the satirical magazine Private Eye criticised Booth for his alleged hypocrisy, saying it went against his recommendations in the newly released 1985 memo that the government should instill values of "personal responsibility, basic honesty, [and respect for] the law and the police" from an early age.[4] Barr went on to be a successful journalist and novelist.[7]
Booth lost a bruising nomination battle with the Hendon South MP
Personal life
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References
- ^ a b c "BOOTH, Hartley". Who's Who. Vol. 2023 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Letwin apologises over 1985 Broadwater Farm riot memo". BBC News. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
- ^ Dathan, Matt (30 December 2015). "The 5 most shocking phrases in Oliver Letwin's 'racist' memo". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 9 May 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
- ^ a b c "HP sauce". Private Eye. No. 1409. 8 January 2016. p. 8.
- ^ I Resign Archived 27 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c Castle, Stephen (13 February 1994). "Scandal sweeps another Tory out of office". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 9 May 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
- ^ Porter, Andrew (5 September 2004). "Vengeful ode of Lib Dem after Mandy's seat". The Times. Retrieved 6 July 2011.