Laurence Robertson
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Laurence Robertson MP |
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| Chairman of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee | |
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Assumed office 9 June 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Patrick Cormack |
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Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury |
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Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | new constituency |
| Majority | 21,972 (39.7%) |
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29 March 1958 Bolton, Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
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| Alma mater | Bolton Institute of Higher Education |
Laurence Anthony Robertson (born 29 March 1958, Bolton, Lancashire) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire since 1997. In May 2005, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland.
His father was a miner, a postman, a delivery man then a milkman. His mother was an office worker in Manchester. He was educated at St James's C.E. Secondary Modern School and Farnworth Grammar School, both located in Farnworth, and afterwards at Bolton Institute of Higher Education (now the University of Bolton), gaining a diploma in Management Services. His working life has also included him working as a charity fund-raising (where he claims to have raised over £1 million), public relations consultant, company director, factory owner from 1987–8, industrial management consultant from 1983–9, and work study engineer from 1977–83.
He was an unsuccessful candidate when he stood for Bolton Council in the Derby ward in 1983 and in the Burnden ward in 1986. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Parliament in the Makerfield constituency at the 1987 General Election and again in the Ashfield constituency at the 1992 General Election.
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