Conor Burns
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Conor Burns MP |
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Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | John Butterfill |
| Majority | 12,410 (29.7%) |
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24 September 1972 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Residence | Westbourne, Dorset, England, UK |
| Alma mater | University of Southampton |
| Website | Profile |
Conor Burns (born 24 September 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bournemouth West at the 2010 general election. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 2010 and 2012, before resigning from the Government due to his opposition to the Lords Reform Bill.
Burns was born in Belfast before moving with his family to Hertfordshire in 1980. He was educated at St Columba's College, St Albans and read Modern History and Politics at the University of Southampton.
He is a practising Catholic, but has said that he feels unable to take communion since Bishop Philip Egan, of the diocese in which Burns resides, stated that those politicians who voted for same-sex marriage, even with the caveats upon which Burns had insisted (i.e. "guarantees that ... churches would not ultimately be forced under human rights legislation to conduct such ceremonies”), should refrain from taking the sacrament.
At Southampton he was chairman of the University's Conservative Association, 1992–93 and Chairman of Wessex Area Conservatives, 1993–94. In 1994 Burns stood unsuccessfully in the Southampton Council elections. In the run-up to the election Burns was criticised for referring to hecklers as "spastics" and calling a woman a "hunchback". He subsequently faced a students union disciplinary hearing as the vice-president of the Southampton Conservative Association.
He held a number of jobs in the communications and finance sectors, most recently as an associate director of the public affairs company PLMR. Prior to that, he was Director of the Policy Research Centre for Business Ltd; Company Secretary for DeHavilland Global Knowledge Distribution plc and Manager for Zurich Advice Network.
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