David Lidington
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The Right Honourable David Lidington CBE MP |
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| Leader of the House of Commons | |
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Assumed office 14 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Chris Grayling |
| Lord President of the Council | |
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Assumed office 14 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Chris Grayling |
| Minister of State for Europe | |
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In office 12 May 2010 – 14 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Chris Bryant |
| Succeeded by | Alan Duncan |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | |
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In office 11 November 2003 – 2 July 2007 |
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| Leader |
Michael Howard David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Quentin Davies |
| Succeeded by | Owen Paterson |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | |
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In office 23 July 2002 – 11 November 2003 |
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| Leader | Iain Duncan Smith |
| Preceded by | Peter Ainsworth |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Spelman (Environment) |
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Member of Parliament for Aylesbury |
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Assumed office 9 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Timothy Raison |
| Majority | 17,158 (31.0%) |
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David Roy Lidington 30 June 1956 London, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge |
| Website | Official website |
David Roy Lidington CBE PC MP (born 30 June 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury since 1992 and the Leader of the House of Commons since July 2016. Previously he was Minister of State for Europe from May 2010 to July 2016, the longest-serving Europe Minister in British history.
Lidington was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree in Hertfordshire, followed by Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he took an Honours degree in History and a PhD in 1988 entitled "The enforcement of the penal statutes at the court of the Exchequer c.1558-c.1576" on Elizabethan history. His passion for history is shared by his brother, Peter "Lidders" Lidington, who is a history teacher at Clifton College in Bristol.
Whilst at Cambridge, he was Chairman of Cambridge University Conservative Association and Deputy President of the Cambridge University Students' Union.
Lidington's early jobs involved work for BP and Rio Tinto Group before being appointed in 1987 as special adviser to the then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd. He moved to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1989 when Mr Hurd was appointed Foreign Secretary.
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