Charles Wardle
Charles Wardle | |
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Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle |
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In office 9 June 1983 – 7 June 2001 |
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Preceded by | Constituency Established |
Succeeded by | Gregory Barker |
Personal details | |
Born | 23 August 1939 |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Independent |
Other political affiliations |
Conservative Party (until 2001) |
Charles Frederick Wardle (born 23 August 1939) was a Conservative Party member of the British Parliament for Bexhill and Battle.
Wardle announced he would not contest the 2001 election in early 2000 after it was disclosed that he was doing consultancy for Mohammed Al-Fayed.[1] He was replaced by Gregory Barker in the 2001 General Election. He supported the United Kingdom Independence Party's (UKIP) Nigel Farage in that election to replace him.
Education
Wardle was educated at Tonbridge School,[2] a boarding independent school in the market town of Tonbridge in Kent in South East England, where he boarded at School House,[3] followed by Lincoln College at the University of Oxford in the city of Oxford and Harvard Business School, the graduate business school of Harvard University, in the city of Boston in Massachusetts, in the United States.[4]
Life and career
In the Conservative government, Wardle had been an immigration minister under the then-Home Secretary, Michael Howard.[5] In the 2005 general election, he appeared with the Labour Party to denounce his former boss's plans on immigration and to endorse Labour.[5]
He left Parliament to take up a £120,000 post as an adviser to the controversial Mohamed Fayed the previous owner of the Harrods department store whose allegations about political corruption helped to bring down John Major's Conservative government. Mr Wardle then left the board of Harrods just four months after joining[6]
References
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- ↑ BBC Politics '97 - Charles Wardle Publisher: BBC News. Retrieved: 4 January, 2013.
- ↑ October 2005 Reunion Publisher: Old Tonbridgian Society of Tonbridge School. Retrieved: 4 January, 2013.
- ↑ Charles Wardle: Electoral history and profile Publisher: The Guardian online. Retrieved: 4 January, 2013.
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- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1361381/Former-MP-Wardle-leaves-Fayed-post.html
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- 1939 births
- Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- Harvard Business School alumni
- Living people
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- People educated at Tonbridge School
- UK MPs 1983–87
- UK MPs 1987–92
- UK MPs 1992–97
- UK MPs 1997–2001
- Conservative MP (UK), 1930s birth stubs