Julian Lewis (politician)
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The Right Honourable Julian Lewis |
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| Chair of the Defence Select Committee | |
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Assumed office 17 June 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Rory Stewart |
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Member of Parliament for New Forest East |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 3 May 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Created |
| Succeeded by | Election in progress |
| Majority | 19,162 (38.8%) |
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Julian Murray Lewis 26 September 1951 Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
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| Website | www |
Julian Murray Lewis (born 26 September 1951) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for New Forest East in Hampshire since the 1997 general election.
Born in Swansea, Wales, Lewis was educated at Dynevor School, Swansea and then at Balliol College, Oxford, receiving a BA, later promoted to MA, in Philosophy and Politics. He studied as a postgraduate at St Antony's College, Oxford, being awarded the DPhil in Strategic Studies in 1981.
In 1976, with secret funding from The Freedom Association, he posed as a Labour Party moderate and briefly won control of Newham North East Constituency Labour Party, in an eventually unsuccessful attempt to reverse the deselection of the sitting MP, Reg Prentice, and in order to highlight Militant Tendency entryism in the Labour Party. Prentice himself later joined the Conservatives.
Lewis was a leading opponent of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and other Left-wing organisations, throughout the 1980s. From 1981–1985, he was Research Director of the Coalition for Peace through Security. From 1985, he has been Director of Policy Research Associates. In Parliament, he actively pursues the retention and renewal of the British strategic nuclear deterrent, the UK Trident programme.
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