Michael Trend
|
The Honourable Michael Trend CBE |
|
|---|---|
|
Member of Parliament for Windsor Windsor and Maidenhead (1992–97) |
|
|
In office 10 April 1992 – 11 April 2005 |
|
| Preceded by | Alan Glyn |
| Succeeded by | Adam Afriyie |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 April 1952 Greenwich |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Jill Kershaw |
| Alma mater | Oriel College, Oxford |
The Honourable Michael St John Trend, CBE (born 19 April 1952 in Greenwich) is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He is the son of Lord Trend, the former Cabinet Secretary. He attended the independent Westminster School, then went to Oriel College, Oxford where he gained an MA in Modern History. He became a journalist for The Times Literary Supplement, History Today and The Spectator. He was chief leader writer for the Daily Telegraph from 1990 to 1992.
He was elected at the 1992 General Election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire. When that constituency was abolished for the 1997 Election, he was returned for the new constituency of Windsor.
Trend was a frontbench spokesman and Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive of the Conservative Party until 2000. He was Chairman of the party's International Office until September 2005, and has done extensive democracy building work in much of the former Soviet Union, and also in Africa.
In December 2002, Trend agreed to repay £90,000 to the House of Commons, after accepting that he wrongly claimed the money as an allowance. In February 2003, Trend was found guilty of abusing the allowances system, and ordered to repay £90,277. He was briefly suspended from Parliament, and did not stand again at the following election. Trend claimed he "believed that I could properly continue to designate London as 'home' for the purposes of ACA, even though, in domestic terms, Windsor had become my "main residence"." It was not accepted.
...
Wikipedia