Rob Wilson
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Robert Wilson MP |
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| Minister for Civil Society | |
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Assumed office 27 September 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Brooks Newmark |
| Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 7 October 2013 – 18 July 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Chancellor | George Osborne |
| Preceded by | Amber Rudd |
| Succeeded by | Robert Halfon |
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Member of Parliament for Reading East |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Jane Griffiths |
| Majority | 7,605 (15.2%) |
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| Born |
4 January 1965 Wallingford, England |
| Political party |
Social Democratic Party (Before 1988) Conservative (1988–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Reading |
| Website | Official website |
Robert Owen Biggs Wilson (born 4 January 1965) is a United Kingdom politician and political author. He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the Reading East parliamentary constituency in the 2005 general election, being re-elected in the elections of 2010 and 2015. He became Minister for Civil Society in the Cabinet Office on 27 September 2014.
Wilson was born and brought up in south Oxfordshire. He attended Wallingford School and then, between 1984 and 1988, the University of Reading, where he studied history. He spent his final year at university as the President of the Reading University Students' Union. Wilson was a member of the Social Democratic Party.
Wilson joined the Conservatives, and was elected as one of three councillors for Thames Ward of Reading Borough Council in 1992, serving one term (until 1996). In 1997, he unsuccessfully contested Bolton North East at that years general election.
In 2003 he was elected for the Caversham Ward of Reading Borough Council, in a by-election for a one-year term. The following year, he was again elected a councillor for Thames ward. Following his election as Member of Parliament, he stood down from the Council in May 2006.
Wilson was selected as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Reading East using a pioneering primary system, which opened the selection to non-party members for the first time. At the 2005 General Election he faced the Labour candidate and councillor, Tony Page. Page had replaced sitting MP, Labour's Jane Griffiths, who had been de-selected by her party. Wilson won 15,557 votes (35.4%) against Page's 15,082 votes (34.3%). The Conservative share of the vote increased by 3.4%.
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