Member for Harborough since 1992. Committees: Joint Secretary, Conservative Backbench Foreign Affairs Committee 1992-94; Member, Select Committee on Home Affairs 1992-94; Joint Chair, All-Party Knitwear Group 1992-94; Member, Franco-British Group; Member, British-China and Hong Kong Group; Vice-Chair, Conservative Foreign Affairs Forum; Treasurer, British-Netherlands Group; Member, British-Gibralter Group. Political career: Shadow Attorney-General since 1999; Frontbench Spokesman, Lord Chancellor's Department 1997-99; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Attorney General and Solicitor General 1995-97; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Roger Freeman MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1996-97; PPS to Alistair Goodlad MP and David Davis, Ministers of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1994-95. Special political interests: Foreign affairs, defence, agriculture, education, law. Profession/Trade: Barrister. Title/Honours/Decorations: QC 1995. Education: Wellington College, Berkshire; Jesus College, Oxford, BA, MA; College of Law, London, called to the Bar (Middle Temple). Affiliations: Visiting Parliamentary Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford 1996-97; Member, Court of Leicester University; Member, Leicestershire and Rutland County Landowners' Association; Member, ELA Legal and Parliamentary Sub-Committee; Director, Great Britain-China Centre, London. Contributor to: Facing the Future (1993); Bearing the Standard (1991); Halsbury's Laws of England (1985). Hobbies: Cricket, shooting, skiing.
b. 26 October 1952, Germany. Married with three children.

2005				2001
CON HOLD	Votes	%	+/- %	Votes	%
Conservative	20,536	42.9	-1.8	20,748	44.7
Lib Dem	16,644	34.7	1.4	15,496	33.4
Labour	9,222	19.2	-0.7	9,271	20.0
UKIP	1,520	3.2	1.2	912	2.0
Majority	3,892	8.1	-	5,252	11.3
Turnout	47,922	64.3	1.0	46,427	63.3