We are delighted that Sir John Redwood will join us for our next dinner for members and supporters.
Tickets are £35 (or £25 for Young Conservatives) and include a welcome drink, two course meal, followed by tea and coffee. Please email [email protected] including your name, address and phone number to reserve your tickets.
In the mid-1980s John was Chief Policy Advisor to Margaret Thatcher. He urged her to begin a great privatisation programme, and then took privatisation around the world as one of its first advocates before being elected to Parliament for Wokingham.
He was soon made a minister, joining the front bench in 1989 as Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department of Trade and Industry. He supervised the liberalisation of the telecoms industry in the early 1990s and became Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities after the 1992 General Election.
Shortly afterwards, John joined the Cabinet and served as Secretary of State for Wales from 1993 to 1995. In opposition he acted as Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1997-1999), Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1999-2000) and Shadow Secretary of State for Deregulation (2004-2005). In the 1990s he campaigned widely to keep the pound, and wrote several books and articles explaining why the Euro would be wrong for the UK. (Our Currency, our country; Just Say No).
John subsequently served as Chairman of the Economic Policy Review (2005-2010) undertaken by the Opposition. A copy of the report is available here. He was Chairman of the Conservative Economic Affairs Committee 2010-2015. John stood for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1995 and again in 1997. He was knighted in 2019.
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