David Tredinnick (politician)
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David Tredinnick MP |
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Member of Parliament for Bosworth |
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Assumed office 11 June 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Adam Butler |
| Majority | 5,032 (9.3%) |
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19 January 1950 Worthing, West Sussex, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Rebecca Shott |
| Alma mater |
Eton College St John's College, Oxford University of Cape Town |
| Website | bosworthconservatives.org.uk |
David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick (born 19 January 1950) is a British Conservative Member of Parliament who has represented Bosworth in Leicestershire since 1987.
He is an advocate of alternative medicine, and has been Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare (previously Integrated and Complementary Healthcare) since 2002.
Tredinnick attended Eton College, St John's College, Oxford (gaining a MLitt) and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, where he gained an MBA. From 1968 to 1971, he was a 2nd Lieutenant with the Grenadier Guards, mainly in Northern Ireland and West Germany.
From 1972 to 1973, he was a trainee at EB Savory Milln & Co stockbrokers, then in 1974 he was an account executive at Quadrant Int. In 1976, he was a salesman at Kalle Infotech UK, and sales manager at Word Right Word Processing from 1977 to 1978. From 1978 to 1979, he was a consultant at Baird Communications NV, and marketing manager at QI Europe Ltd from 1979 to 1981. He was manager at Malden Mitcham Properties from 1981 to 1987. As of 2015, he remains a director.
Tredinnick contested the seat of Cardiff South and Penarth in 1983, coming second (with a 35.9% vote share) to James Callaghan. He won Bosworth in Leicestershire in 1987. He became a Parliamentary Private Secretary, but was forced to resign in July 1994 after it emerged that he had abused parliamentary privilege by agreeing to accept payment of £1,000 from an undercover reporter to ask questions in Parliament about a non-existent drug. Part of the cash-for-questions affair, the MP was caught in an investigation by The Sunday Times. In April 1995, he was suspended without salary from entering the House of Commons chamber for 20 sitting days.
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