Member for Chichester since 1997. Committees: Member, Public Accounts Commission; Member, Joint Committee on Consolidation of Bills; Vice-Chair, All-Party Group on Parliamentary Reform; Vice-Chair, All-Party Group on Macedonia. Special political interests: The economy, constitutional reform, international affairs. Education:
Trinity College, Oxford, MA; College of Europe, Bruges, Diploma in Economics; Wolfson College, Cambridge, MPhil International Relations. Author of: Axis of Instability: America, Britain, and The New World Order after Iraq (2003); Statism by Stealth: New Labour, New Collectivism (2002); Back from the Brink (2001); Mr Blair's Poodle: An Agenda for Reviving the House of Commons (2000); Leviathan at Large; the New Regulator for the Financial Markets (with Martin McElwee) (2000); Sense on EMU (1998); Reforming the Lords: A Conservative Approach (1998); The Prospects for Public Spending (1996). Hobbies: Golf, walking.
b. 15 January 1957. Single.

2005				2001
CON HOLD	Votes	%	+/- %	Votes	%
Conservative	25,302	48.3	1.3	23,320	47
Lib Dem	14,442	27.6	3.4	11,965	24.1
Labour	9,632	18.4	-3.1	10,627	21.4
UKIP	3,025	5.8	1.0	2,380	4.8
Green	-	-	-	1,292	2.6
Majority	10,860	20.7		11,355	22.9
Turnout	52,401	66.6	2.8	49,584	63.8