Andrew Turner (politician)
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Andrew Turner MP |
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Member of Parliament for Isle of Wight |
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Assumed office 7 June 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Brand |
| Majority | 13,703 (19.5%) |
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24 October 1953 Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Keble College, Oxford |
| Website | www.andrew-turner.org.uk |
Andrew John Turner (born 24 October 1953, in Coventry) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is currently the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Isle of Wight, a post he has held since the 2001 general election.
Turner was educated at Rugby School, an independent school for boys in the market town of Rugby in Warwickshire, followed by Keble College at the University of Oxford in Oxford, receiving an MA in Geography. He later studied to be a teacher at the University of Birmingham and Henley Management College.
Turner taught economics in comprehensive schools. Turner was an education advisor to the previous Conservative government and founded the Grant Maintained Schools Foundation which he ran from 1988–1997. He was a councillor on Oxford City Council for several years. In 2000, he worked for the Labour-controlled London Borough of Southwark on outsourcing their education provision following a negative report from Ofsted.
Turner contested Hackney South and Shoreditch in 1992, then the Birmingham East MEP seat in 1994. Turner took the Isle of Wight seat in the 2001 general election, after having previously stood in 1997, making one of the few gains for the Conservative Party in 2001.
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