Member for New Forest East since 1997. Committees: Member, Select Committee on Defence; Member, Select Committee on Welsh Affairs; Secretary, Conservative Parliamentary Defence Committee; Vice-Chair, Conservative Parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Europe Committees. Political career: Deputy Director, Conservative Research Department 1990-96; Director, Policy Research Associates since 1985; Research Director and Director, Coalition for Peace Through Security 1981-85; Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, General Election 1983 (Swansea West). Special political interests: Defence, foreign affairs, Europe, broadcasting, mental health. Profession/Trade: Researcher and historian. Education: Dynevor GS, Swansea; Balliol College, Oxford, MA; St Antony's College, Oxford, DPhil. Affiliations: Conservative Way Forward; The Freedom Association. Author of: What's Liberal? Quotations and Facts (1996); The Liberal Democrats: The Character of Their Politics (1993); Who's Left? An Index of Labour MPs and Left-Wing Causes 1986-92 (1992); Labour's CND Cover-up (1992); Changing Direction: British Military Planning for Post-War Strategic Defence (1988). Hobbies: History, films, fiction, music, photography.
b. 26 September 1951, Swansea. Single.

2005				2001
CON HOLD	Votes	%	+/- %	Votes	%
Conservative	21,975	48.6	6.1	17,902	42.4
Lib Dem	15,424	34.1	0.7	14,073	33.4
Labour	5,492	12.1	-9.5	9,141	21.7
UKIP	2,344	5.2	2.7	1,062	2.5
Majority	6,551	14.5		3,829	9.1
Turnout	45,235	65.9	2.7	42,178	63.2