Nick Herbert
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The Right Honourable Nick Herbert CBE MP |
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| Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice | |
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In office 13 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | David Hanson (Security, Counterterrorism, Crime and Policing) |
| Succeeded by | Damian Green |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | |
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In office 19 January 2009 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Peter Ainsworth |
| Succeeded by | Hilary Benn |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Justice | |
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In office 2 July 2007 – 19 January 2009 |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Oliver Heald |
| Succeeded by | Dominic Grieve |
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Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Howard Flight |
| Majority | 26,177 (46.3%) |
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Nicholas Le Quesne Herbert 7 April 1963 Cambridge, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Domestic partner | Jason Eades |
| Alma mater | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Website | Official website |
Nicholas Le Quesne (Nick) Herbert CBE (born 7 April 1963) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Arundel and South Downs. He was Minister of State for Police and Criminal Justice, with his time split between the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice from 2010–2012.
Herbert was educated at Haileybury and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read law and land economy. He was appointed as the director of public affairs at the British Field Sports Society in 1990 and remained in that position for six years, from which he helped to form the Countryside Movement which later became the Countryside Alliance
He joined Business for Sterling in 1998 as their Chief Executive where he led the launch of the 'no' campaign against adopting the Euro currency, before becoming the first Director of the think tank Reform in 2001 until his election to parliament in 2005.
He unsuccessfully contested the Northumberland seat of Berwick-upon-Tweed at the 1997 general election where he finished in third place some 8,951 votes behind the veteran Liberal Democrat MP Alan Beith.
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