Eric Pickles
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The Right Honourable Sir Eric Pickles MP |
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| United Kingdom Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues | |
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Assumed office 10 September 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Andrew Burns |
| Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | |
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In office 12 May 2010 – 11 May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | John Denham |
| Succeeded by | Greg Clark |
| Minister of State for Faith | |
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In office 6 August 2014 – 11 May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Warsi (Faith and Communities) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Chairman of the Conservative Party | |
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In office 19 January 2009 – 12 May 2010 |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Caroline Spelman |
| Succeeded by |
The Lord Feldman of Elstree The Baroness Warsi |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | |
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In office 27 June 2007 – 19 January 2009 |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Shadowing |
Ruth Kelly Hazel Blears |
| Preceded by | Caroline Spelman |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Spelman |
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In office 11 November 2003 – 6 May 2005 Local Government |
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| Leader | Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | David Davis (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Spelman (Local Government Affairs and Communities) |
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In office 6 June 2002 – 23 July 2002 Local Government and the Regions |
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| Leader | Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | Theresa May (Transport, Local Government and the Regions) |
| Succeeded by | David Davis (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) |
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Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar |
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Assumed office 9 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Robert McCrindle |
| Majority | 21,810 (42.0%) |
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Eric Jack Pickles 20 April 1952 Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Irene Coates |
| Alma mater | Leeds Metropolitan University |
| Website | Official website |
Sir Eric Jack Pickles (born 20 April 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar since the 1992 general election and was the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government until May 2015. He was previously the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2009 to 2010 and is currently the chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel. Sir Eric is now the United Kingdom Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues, being appointed in 2015.
Eric Jack Pickles was born on 20 April 1952, the son of Jack and Constance Pickles. Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, he attended Greenhead Grammar School (which became Greenhead High School and is now University Academy Keighley) on Greenhead Road in Utley, north Keighley, then studied at Leeds Polytechnic. He was born into a Labour-supporting family – his great grandfather was one of the founders of the Independent Labour Party, and Pickles described himself as "massively inclined" towards communism as a boy.
After the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, he joined the local Keighley Branch of the Young Conservatives in 1968, later commenting "I joined because of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. I was so shocked by the tanks. It was not the best way of fighting Brezhnev, but it made me feel better".
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