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Andrew Henry George (born
2 December 1958)
British politician. He is the
Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for
St Ives, in
Cornwall.
Early life
He was born in
Mullion near
The Lizard, Cornwall, one of eight children born to a
horticulturalist father and music teacher mother, and was educated locally at the
Helston School, before attending the
University of Sussex where he received a
Bachelor of Arts degree in
cultural and
community studies in
1980. He finished his education at the
University College, Oxford where he was awarded a
master's degree in
agricultural economics in
1981.
He worked in local government initially as a rural officer with the
Nottinghamshire Rural Council in 1981, until he became the deputy director of the Cornwall Rural Council in
1985, where he remained until his election to the
House of Commons. He contested the seat of St Ives at the
1992 general election where he finished second, just 1,645 votes behind the sitting
Conservative MP David Harris. Harris stood down at the
1997 general election and George won the seat with a majority of 7,170 and has remained the MP there since. He made his
maiden speech on
22 May 1997.
In Parliament
In the House of Commons, he was made a spokesman on
agriculture, fisheries and food by
Paddy Ashdown in
1997, and was moved under the new leadership of
Charles Kennedy in
1999 to speak on
Department of Social Security. Following the
2001 General Election he became the
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the
Leader of the Liberal Democrats Kennedy. He was promoted to the Liberal Democrat
Shadow Cabinet in
2002 as the Shadow Rural Affairs and Food Secretary. He has been the Shadow
Secretary of State for International Development since the
2005 general election.
In July 1997 George attempted to raise a question concerning the
Duchy of Cornwall in the House of Commons but was prevented from doing so by an injunction that disallows MPs raising any questions in
Parliament that are in any way related to the Duchy.
On
12 May 2005, George became the first MP to swear his
oath of allegiance to the
Queen in
Cornish. Before joining the Liberal Democrats he was a member of
Mebyon Kernow, and was one of the founder members of the Cornish Constitutional Convention, campaigning for a
Cornish Assembly. He has been married to Jill Elizabeth Marshall, a nurse, since
1987 and they've a son (Davy) and a daughter (Morvah, born 1987) and live in
Hayle.
On
6 January 2006 he was one of the first members of the Liberal Democrat
frontbench team to threaten to resign his post if Charles Kennedy hadn't stood down as leader by
9 January 2006. He was sacked from the frontbench on
March 8 by Kennedy's successor, Sir
Menzies Campbell.
In 2007 Andrew George and the four other Cornish Lib-Dem MPs were criticised for not supporting locals and backing the bid to stop
Cornwall becoming a
Unitary Authority. Local polls commissioned by the District Councils indicated that approximately 80% of the public were opposed to the formation of the Cornish Unitary Authority.
On
29 October 2007 Andrew George issued a press statement which said:- "
Just because the Government has approached the whole Regional Devolution agenda in entirely the wrong way, doesn't mean to say that the project itself should be ditched. If Scotland is benefiting from devolution then Cornwall should learn from this and increase the intensity of its own campaign for devolution to a Cornish Assembly."
Publications
- The Natives are Revolting Down in the Cornwall Theme Park by Andrew George, 1986
- Cornwall at the Crossroads by Bernard Deacon, Andrew George et al, 1989 CoSERG, Redruth ISBN 0-9513918-0-1
- A Vision of Cornwall by Andrew George, 1995
- A View from the Bottom Left-Hand Corner by Andrew George, 2002, Patten Press, Penzance ISBN 1-872229-40-9
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