Paul Burstow
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The Right Honourable Paul Burstow |
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| Minister of State for Care Services | |
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In office 11 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Phil Hope |
| Succeeded by | Norman Lamb |
| Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrats | |
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In office 22 March 2006 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Andrew Stunell |
| Succeeded by | Alistair Carmichael |
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Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Olga Maitland |
| Succeeded by | Paul Scully |
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| Born |
13 May 1962 Carshalton, England |
| Political party |
Social Democratic Party (Before 1988) Liberal Democrats (1988–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Everdell Kemm |
| Children | 1 son 2 daughters |
| Alma mater | South Bank Polytechnic |
Paul Kenneth Burstow (born 13 May 1962) was a British politician who served as the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sutton & Cheam for 18 years from 1997 to 2015.
In May 2010 he was appointed Minister of State for the Department of Health and served in that position until September 2012.
Burstow was born in Carshalton, son of a tailor, and was educated at Carshalton College and the South Bank Polytechnic where he obtained a degree in business studies. He started his career as a buying assistant with Allied Shoe Repairs in 1985. In 1986 he worked briefly in print sales with KallKwik Printers, before becoming a research assistant at the London Borough of Hounslow in 1987.
He was elected as a councillor for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to the Sutton Borough Council in 1986, and was its deputy leader 1994-7, he remained a councillor for the Rosehill Ward in Sutton until 2002, after his election to parliament.
In 1988 he joined the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors as a campaigns officer, becoming its political secretary in 1996, where he remained until becoming an MP.
Burstow first contested the Sutton and Cheam Parliamentary seat for the Liberal Democrats at the 1992 General Election. He was defeated by the Conservative Lady Olga Maitland despite achieving one of the largest swings to the Liberal Democrats in London at that election.
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