Howard Flight
Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party | |
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In office 1 December 2004 – 1 March 2005 | |
Leader | Michael Howard |
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 23 July 2002 – 14 July 2004 | |
Leader | Iain Duncan Smith Michael Howard |
Preceded by | John Bercow |
Succeeded by | George Osborne |
Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs | |
In office 1 May 1997 – 11 April 2005 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Succeeded by | Nick Herbert |
Personal details | |
Born | 16 June 1948 |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Alma mater | University of Michigan (MBA), Magdalene College, Cambridge (BA) |
Howard Emerson Flight, Baron Flight (born 16 June 1948) is a
Early and personal life
Flight was educated at
Political career
Flight stood unsuccessfully for Parliament for Bermondsey in the February and October 1974 general elections.
He resigned as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party on 24 March 2005, following comments made at a
Elections
On 6 April, Flight was deselected as a Conservative candidate by then-party leader Michael Howard, and removed from his role as party deputy chairman,[4] and his party began the process of selecting a new last-minute candidate. Anne Marie Morris, Laura Sandys, and Nick Herbert put themselves forward for nomination as replacement candidates. The chosen candidate, Nick Herbert, won the seat at the election.
Some years later, after a change of party leader, Flight was placed on the
On 25 November 2010, a week after the announcement of his intended peerage, Flight apologised after suggesting that the government's changes to child benefits would "discourage the middle classes from breeding, but for those on benefits there is every incentive".[8]
Peerage received and other roles
Flight was raised to the peerage in January 2011. He is a director of companies, including Investec, a venture capital company, his own private equity company, and is chairman of the Entrepreneurs Investment Scheme (EIS) Association of lawyers and accountants, a trustee and Vice President of the Elgar Foundation, a Member of the Advisory Boards of the Centre for Policy Studies, Institute of Economic Affairs and Financial Services Forum.[2]
Arms
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Notes and references
- Notes
- References
- ^ Former MPs go to the Lords Archived 9 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine, ePolitix, 19 November 2010
- ^ a b c "House of Lords Profile". Parliament.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ Flight fight to save career, BBC News, 28 March 2005
- ^ Happold, Tom (6 April 2005). "Flight gives up the fight". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
- ^ "Who is on the A-list?". Conservativehome.blogs.com. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ Peerages honours and appointments at number10.gov.uk
- ^ "No. 59676". The London Gazette. 20 January 2011. p. 869.
- ^ Walker, Peter (25 November 2010). "Tory peer Howard Flight apologises over poor people 'breeding' comments". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 November 2010.