David Nuttall MP |
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Member of Parliament for Bury North |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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Preceded by | David Chaytor |
Majority | 378 (0.8%) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
25 March 1962
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Susan |
Residence | Tottington, Lancashire |
Alma mater | University of London |
Occupation | Notary public |
Religion | Church of England |
Website | davidnuttall.info |
David John Nuttall (born 25 March 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury North, having won his seat in the House of Commons at the 2010 general election.
Nuttall was born in Sheffield and educated at Aston Comprehensive School in Rotherham. He left school at 18 and became a trainee solicitor in a firm of solicitors in Sheffield. He qualified as a fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, and obtained a law degree by correspondence from the University of London. He was admitted as a solicitor in December 1990 and became a partner in his firm, rising to senior partner in 1998. He became a notary public in November 1998.
Nuttall joined the Conservative Party in 1980 and contested a number of local government elections, spending six years as a councillor on Rotherham Borough Council. He contested the constituency of Sheffield Hillsborough in the 1997 General Election, was one of the Conservative candidates for the constituency of Yorkshire and the Humber in the 1999 European Parliament elections, and contested the constituency of Morecambe and Lunesdale in the 2001 General Election.