Michael Fabricant MP |
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Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury | |
In office 11 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 |
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Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Bob Blizzard |
Succeeded by | Desmond Swayne |
Member of Parliament for Lichfield Mid Staffordshire (1992–1997) |
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Assumed office 9 April 1992 |
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Preceded by | Sylvia Heal |
Majority | 17,683 (34.3%) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Brighton, England, UK |
12 June 1950
Political party | Conservative |
Alma mater |
Loughborough University University of Sussex |
Website | Official website |
Michael Louis David Fabricant (born 12 June 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the member of Parliament for the Lichfield constituency in Staffordshire.
Michael Fabricant was the Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party for Parliamentary Campaigning, responsible for Conservative headquarters strategy on marginal seats at the 2015 general election, as well as by-elections. He was dismissed from this position in April 2014 over the HS2 rail link and comments made about Maria Miller's resignation.
Fabricant was born in Brighton, into a British Jewish family, to Helena (née Freed; 1911-2004) and Isaac Fabricant (1906-1989). All of his grandparents were born in Russia. He attended Brighton Secondary Technical School and Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School. He studied economics at Loughborough University, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree. He went on to study at the University of Sussex, where he was awarded a master's degree in systems and econometrics in 1974, and postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford, University of London and the University of Southern California.