Mike Weatherley

Mike Weatherley
Mike Weatherley, July 2010
Member of Parliament for Hove
In office 6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by	Celia Barlow
Succeeded by	Peter Kyle
Personal details
Born	(1957-07-02) 2 July 1957 (age 59) Clevedon, Somerset, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	London South Bank University

Michael Richard Weatherley (born 2 July 1957) is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove in East Sussex from the 2010 to the 2015 general election.

Weatherley was born on 2 July 1957. He was educated at Kent College, an independent school near Canterbury, Kent, and read business studies at London South Bank University. A chartered management accountant, professing a keen interest in live music, he was finance director of record producer Pete Waterman's group of businesses. In 2007, Weatherley became Vice-President (Europe) for the Motion Picture Licensing Company.

Weatherley's first parliamentary candidacy was at the 2001 general election in the safe Labour seat of Barking in east London. Two years later, he unsuccessfully stood for a council seat in Brighton and Hove in 2003. In the next Westminster election, he was Conservative parliamentary candidate for Brighton, Pavilion, the seat adjacent to Hove. In the event, the seat was held by the incumbent Labour MP, David Lepper with a majority of over 5,000.

Weatherley then secured a seat on his local Crawley Borough Council, defeating the Labour candidate, 2005 Big Brother contestant Eugene Sully. In 2006, Weatherley was selected by the Hove Conservative Association as their candidate for the next election. He was finally successful in entering parliament in the 2010 general election when he defeated sitting Labour MP Celia Barlow, with a majority of 1,868.