Jesse Norman
Richard Harrington | |
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Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee | |
In office 18 June 2015 – 18 July 2016 | |
Preceded by | John Whittingdale |
Succeeded by | Damian Collins |
Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire | |
Assumed office 6 May 2010 | |
Preceded by | Paul Keetch |
Majority | 19,686 (39.7%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Alexander Jesse Norman 23 June 1962 London, England |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse |
Sir Mark Norman, Bt (uncle) Sir Torquil Norman (father) |
Children | 3 |
Residence(s) | London Hereford |
Education | Eton College |
Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford University College London |
Website | jessenorman |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Visual reasoning in Euclid's geometry : an epistemology of diagrams (2003) |
Alexander Jesse Norman (born 23 June 1962) is a British
He served as a Minister in the Treasury, Foreign Office, Cabinet Office, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and the Department for Transport. Among his MInisterial roles he served as Paymaster General and Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
Norman was a
Early life and education
Norman is the son of
Norman was educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford, graduating with a Second in Classics.
Career outside Politics
Academic
Norman pursued further studies at
Norman's research interests include Edmund Burke and Adam Smith.[8]
Charity
From 1989 to 1991, Norman ran a charitable project donating new medical textbooks and journals and business and other books and building independent professional networks in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Ukraine.[citation needed]
He was for many years a
Banking
Norman worked for Barclays from 1991 to 1997.
Think tanks and writing
He was a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and writes regularly for the national press. His book Compassionate Conservatism (2006), co-written with Janan Ganesh, has been described as "the guidebook to Cameronism" by The Sunday Times. Its successor, Compassionate Economics, was favourably reviewed by Daniel Hannan.[11] His other policy publications include "Living for the City" (2006) and "From Here to Fraternity" (2007).
In 2007, Norman founded the Conservative Co-operative Movement.
His books include The Achievement of Michael Oakeshott (ed.) (1992), Breaking the Habits of a Lifetime (1992) and After Euclid (2006); The Big Society: The Anatomy of the New Politics (2010), published by University of Buckingham Press.
His biography of
His book Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why It Matters (2018),[13] won the Parliamentary non-fiction book award in 2018.[14], and was described as "superb" in the Financial Times.
His first novel, The Winding Stair, about the rivalry between Francis Bacon and Edward Coke, was published in June 2023.[15]
Political career
Before Parliament
At the 2006 local elections in Camden, Norman was one of the three Conservative candidates for Camden Town with Primrose Hill ward. However, he was unsuccessful, in what was a close contest between the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties.[16]
MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire
Norman was first elected as the Conservative MP for the newly created seat of
Norman won the new seat with a 5.1% majority over the Liberal Democrats, who had held the predecessor constituency.
He was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from July 2010 to March 2015, is Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Employee Ownership, founder of the PFI Rebate Campaign and founding member of the Campaign for an Effective Second Chamber which campaigns for the House of Lords to be appointed rather than elected.[18]
On 10 July 2012, Norman was identified as a ringleader of the rebellion over the
On 11 July 2012, Ed Miliband, the then leader of the Labour Party, described the scene involving Cameron and Norman as "fisticuffs in the Lobby" at Prime Minister's Questions.[21][22][non-primary source needed] Accounts of the severity of Cameron's words or gestures used vary and The Daily Telegraph wrote that cynics say this "public argument may have been staged" to try to prove to Liberal Democrats that Cameron shared their vision of Lords Reform.[20] Norman rebutted much of this narrative in an article for The Spectator.[23]
In 2013, Norman said that so many
Norman was dismissed from Downing Street's Policy Board after rebelling against the Government again in opposition to military intervention in Syria.[26]
On 27 June 2014, prior to the nomination of
In September 2014, Norman raised the issue of rules concerning
Despite his unconventional past, Norman was identified by Bruce Anderson, formerly political editor of The Spectator, in January 2013 as a potential future Leader of the Conservative Party.[30]
Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee
On 19 June 2015, his election as
On 8 September 2015 at a hearing of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee convened to discuss recent allegation of blood doping in
Ministerial Career
Following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister in July 2016, Norman was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Energy.
Norman was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport after the 2017 general election, before advancing to Minister of State at the same department in November 2018.
In May 2019, Norman was appointed Paymaster General and Financial Secretary to the Treasury by May; he remained in the latter position under her successor, Boris Johnson, until he stepped down in September 2021.[34] During his time at the Treasury, he managed the UK Pandemic Furlough and self-employed schemes, launched a 10 year strategy to digitize the tax system, and set up the UK Infrastructure Bank. At the time of stepping down, he was said to have done so over Boris Johnson's bid for more diversity in Government.[35]
In September 2022 he returned to Government as
In October 2022 he moved to the Department for Transport, appointed by new PM Rishi Sunak to the role of Minister of State for Decarbonisation and Technology from October 2022 to November 2023.[38][39]
On 13 November 2023 he stood down from his Ministerial role citing that it would enable him to spend more time campaigning locally, and saying that he had indicated his wish to step down to the whips some months previously.[40]
Brexit
Almost alone among MPs, Norman has never revealed publicly how he voted over the UK's continued membership of the European Union in the 2016 referendum saying only, "A referendum is not an act of representative government and I am not a minister, so my vote can properly be a private one."[41] He set out his view of Brexit in an Op-Ed "To get this EU debate out of the sewer, it needs the Pulp Fiction treatment" [42]
Other views
In 2017, Norman expressed support for fellow
Honours
In November 2019, he was appointed as a member of the
Bibliography
- The Winding Stair (London: Biteback Publishing, 2023) ISBN 9781785907920
Personal life
In 1992, Norman married
Norman lists his recreations as "music, especially jazz and opera, hill-walking, sports, cinema". He is a football fan, and a member of Westfields Football Club.[1]
See also
Notes
- ^ Minister of State for Transport (2018-19)
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ "Co-operative vs co-operative". BBC News. 18 January 2008. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
- ^ "Bio". Jesse Norman.
- ^ "Keeping it in the Family – House Of Commons Of The United Kingdom – Government Of The United Kingdom". Scribd.
- ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ Norman, Alexander Jesse (2003). "Visual reasoning in Euclid's geometry : an epistemology of diagrams". E-Thesis Online Service. The British Library Board. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- ^ "Visiting Fellows 2016 - 2017 | All Souls College". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ^ a b "The Rt Hon Jesse Norman". All Souls College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- ^ www.roundhouse.org.uk Archived 3 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Meeting Room Hire Herefordshire". kindlecentre.org.uk.
- Daily Telegraph. 26 April 2009. Archived from the originalon 20 July 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
- ^ "Longlist announced for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013". Samuel Johnson Prize. 28 June 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ^ Norman, Jesse (4 July 2019). Adam Smith.
- ^ Joynson, Jasmine (4 December 2018). "Parliamentary Book Awards 2018 Winners Revealed". Publishers Association. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ^ "Biteback scoops MP Norman's 'ingenious' début novel". The Bookseller. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ISBN 978-1-85261-232-0.
- ^ "Tories choose a new candidate". Hereford Times. 15 December 2006. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
- ^ Murphy, Joe (21 June 2012). "Clegg's elected Lords plan 'would pay the wages of 15,000 nurses'". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
- ^ "Furious David Cameron 'confronted' Jesse Norman". BBC News. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ^ a b c d Hope, Christopher (11 July 2012). "How the Lords rebellion spilled over into a row between David Cameron and one of his rising stars". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ Hansard 11 July 2012 : Column 302
- ^ "Page cannot be found". UK Parliament.
- ^ Norman, Jesse (9 January 2020). "My clash with Cameron". The Spectator. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ "Cameron adviser Jesse Norman defends Eton comments". BBC News. 27 April 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ^ a b Merrick, Jane (7 October 2012). "Jesse Norman: 'The British people are crying out for leadership'". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 8 June 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ^ "Tory MP Jesse Norman sacked as adviser over Syria vote". BBC News. 4 September 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ^ "Opinion". The Telegraph. 16 March 2016. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016 – via blogs.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ "Hereford United chairman 'will not resign'". BBC News. 7 September 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ^ Owens, Trevor (6 January 2015). "Hereford United: The end of the affair for the broken Bulls". BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ Anderson, Bruce (9 January 2013). "Could Jesse Norman be the next Tory leader?". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
- ^ "Winning candidates for select committee Chairs announced". UK Parliament. 18 June 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ "Paula Radcliffe 'categorically denies' cheating". BBC News. 7 September 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- ^ "MP denies implicating Paula Radcliffe in doping claims". BBC News. 9 September 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
- ^ "Reshuffle day two: Jesse Norman sacked as Treasury minister". 16 September 2021.
- ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ "Ministerial Appointments: September 2022". GOV.UK. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ "Minister of State (Minister for the Americas) - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ "Ministerial Appointments commencing: 25 October 2022". GOV.UK. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ^ "Minister of State - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- ^ "Hertford MP Jesse Norman resigns". 13 November 2023.
- Conservative Home. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^ "To get this EU debate out of the sewer, it needs the Pulp Fiction treatment | Jesse Norman". the Guardian. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ a b "Hereford and South Herefordshire MP backs Jacob Rees-Mogg". Ross Gazette. 23 August 2017. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
- ^ "Orders Approved and Business Transacted by the Privy Council Held by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 6th November 2019" (PDF). The Privy Council Office.
- ^ www.burkespeerage.com
- ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ "Mr Justice". The Economist. 11 July 2012. Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
External links
- Jesse Norman MP official website
- Jesse Norman campaign website
- Profile at the Conservative Party
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
- Top 100 right wingers: 75–51 Iain Dale Daily Telegraph 26 Sep 2008
- Compassionate Economics
- Debrett's People of Today
- Appearances on C-SPAN