Mike Freer
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Mike Freer MP |
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Member of Parliament for Finchley and Golders Green |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Rudi Vis |
| Majority | 5,809 (12.3%) |
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29 May 1960 Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Website | www.mikefreer.com |
Michael Whitney Freer (born 29 May 1960) is a British politician.
A Conservative, he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Finchley and Golders Green at the 2010 general election. Freer is a former leader of Barnet Council and a former councillor from the Church End ward in Finchley.
Michael Whitney Freer was born in Manchester in 1960. Part of his childhood was spent in council accommodation, which was then bought by his parents following the Conservative government's right-to-buy legislation. He was educated at the Chadderton Grammar School for Boys and subsequently at St Aidan's College in Carlisle. He read accountancy and business law at the University of Stirling but, in not taking his finals, did not graduate.
Freer worked in managerial roles for a number of fast-food chains, including Pizzaland, Pizza Hut and KFC, prior to a management career in the financial sector. Freer worked for Barclays Bank as a relationship director.
Freer was first elected to Barnet Council in 1990 for the St. Paul's ward, winning the seat from Labour. However, he lost the seat in 1994, in which the Conservatives were routed nationally. He was re-elected to the council, for the Church End ward, in 2002. He became leader of the council on 11 May 2006, replacing Brian Salinger as Conservative group leader, having previously been Salinger's deputy. His appointment was approved unanimously.
In the 2005 general election, Freer contested the Harrow West constituency in the neighbouring borough of Harrow. He finished second to the Labour incumbent Gareth Thomas, whose majority was cut from 6,000 to 2,000. He was selected for Finchley and Golders Green on 10 December 2006. Freer maintains a poster in his office of his rival, Sarah Sandford, with scrawls over the poster "I beat". Freer is a member of Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI). Although he is not Jewish, The Jewish Chronicle, in its list of 100 most powerful influences on the Jewish community, named Freer 99th, not least because of his membership of CFI and his chairmanship of the Barnet multi-faith forum. Freer chose to resign his position as parliamentary private secretary to Nick Boles in order to vote against a backbench motion recognising Palestine as a state alongside Israel, arguing "the two-state solution we all want to see should be the end not the start of the process".
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