Which former leader of the Conservative party was MP for Chingford & Woodford Green?
"hall building subsequently put up for sale itself. Chingford is within the Chingford and Woodford Green UK Parliament constituency, which consists of the six Chingford wards in the Borough of Waltham Forest and two wards in the Borough of Redbridge. Iain Duncan Smith has been the sitting MP since 1992. Former MPs include Norman Tebbit, Leah Manning, Stan Newens, and Winston Churchill (when Chingford was in the Epping constituency). Chingford is part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, which also includes the east London districts of Walthamstow, Leyton, and Leytonstone. Chingford consists of six council wards, namely: Each ward"
"Labour hold 5. The boundaries of Chingford and Woodford Green take in a large slice of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The constituency includes Chingford in the north bordering Enfield down through Highams Park and Hatch Lane into Woodford, and also takes in a part of the London Borough of Redbridge. Before 1945, both Woodford and Chingford were part of Epping for general elections, for which wartime Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill was MP. The constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the former seats of Chingford and Wanstead & Woodford. Both seats previously had well-known MPs, Norman"
"Party Leader from 2001-03. Chingford and Woodford Green is separated from Ilford North by the Central line, whilst a small part of South Woodford is in Leyton and Wanstead constituency. Previously the local constituency was Wanstead and Woodford (1974–1997) and before that Woodford (1945–1974) which was represented by Winston Churchill between 1945-64. Churchill had previously represented the area (1924-1945) as part of the Epping Parliamentary Constituency - and was therefore Woodford's local MP, both when he was the wartime Prime Minister - and also later, when he served as a peace time Prime Minister. Churchill is commemorated by a statue"
"Conservative Party by Robert Courts, albeit with a significantly reduced majority. The constituency is coterminous with the district of West Oxfordshire, and includes the towns of Carterton, Chipping Norton and Woodstock. The constituency's first MP was Douglas Hurd, who served as a cabinet minister under both Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and retired in 1997. Hurd was succeeded by Shaun Woodward at the 1997 general election. However, Woodward defected to the Labour Party in 1999, and Witney unexpectedly had a Labour MP. Woodward chose not to stand in Witney as a Labour candidate and moved to the Labour safe seat"
"2005 general election, almost doubling his majority. He has been Member of Parliament for Chingford and Woodford Green since 1997, having succeeded Norman Tebbit as MP for the predecessor constituency of Chingford at the 1992 general election. In September 2006 he was one of fourteen authors of a report concerning Anti-Semitism in Britain. He was also one of the only early supporters of the Iraq surge policy. In September 2007, he called for Britain to withdraw from the war in Afghanistan and to fight in the war in Iraq indefinitely. Following the 2010 general election, the Conservative Party formed a"
"Chingford Central, Chingford North West, Chingford South, and Hale End. 1983-1997: The London Borough of Waltham Forest wards of Chapel End, Chingford Green, Endlebury, Hale End, Hatch Lane, Larkswood, and Valley. The seat was created out of the old Epping and Walthamstow East constituencies, and no part of it was ever in the post-1965 administrative county of Essex. It was replaced in 1997 by the new Chingford and Woodford Green constituency. Chingford (UK Parliament constituency) Chingford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Chingford in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It returned one Member of Parliament to"
"hundred policy ideas using broadly the same themes. On their website the group said that the Government has so far taken on sixteen of the recommendations, and the Conservatives twenty-nine. Of those twenty-nine, ten were unanimously rejected by the European Court of Justice, as they deemed the proposals ""unfit for a modern democracy"" and ""verging on frighteningly authoritarian"". The ECJ's comments were dismissed by IDS, stating that there had been ""no such talks"" between them, and provoked attacks on the European Union by some members of the party. Duncan Smith was re-elected comfortably in Chingford and Woodford Green at the"
"is represented by three councillors; at present all of the councillors represent the Conservative Party except for two Labour ones in Valley and Hale End and Highams Park. The London Borough of Waltham Forest is presently controlled by the Labour party. Chingford falls within the North East constituency of the London Assembly, which is currently represented by Jennette Arnold of the Labour party. When Chingford was a municipal borough, before 1965, its politics were dominated by the"" Chingford Ratepayers' Association"", which was nominally independent, but against whom the Conservative Party did not field candidates. As of the 2011 census, 86%"
"from the ""Mail""s website without an admission of fault. Damian Green Damian Howard Green (born 17 January 1956) is a British politician who has been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Ashford since 1997 and was the First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 11 June 2017 to 20 December 2017. Green was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales and studied PPE at Balliol College, Oxford. Before entering politics, Green worked as a journalist for the BBC, Channel 4 and ""The Times"". Green entered Parliament in the 1997 election by winning the seat of"
"Ashford (UK Parliament constituency) Ashford is a constituency created in 1885 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Damian Green, a Conservative, who served as First Secretary of State between 11 June and 20 December 2017. 1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Tenterden, the Sessional Divisions of Ashford and Cranbrook, the corporate towns of Lydd and New Romney, and part of the Liberty of Romney Marsh. 1918-1950: The Municipal Boroughs of Lydd, New Romney, and Tenterden, the Urban District of Ashford, and the Rural Districts of Cranbrook, East Ashford, Romney Marsh, Tenterden, and West Ashford."
"John Major Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He served as Foreign Secretary and then Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Thatcher Government from 1989 to 1990, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon from 1979 until his retirement in 2001. Since the death of Margaret Thatcher in 2013, Major has been the oldest living former Prime Minister. Born in St Helier, Surrey, Major grew up in Brixton. He initially worked as an insurance"
"Government Act 1972 made it a successor parish within the district of West Oxfordshire. Chipping Norton is in the Witney parliamentary constituency. The Member of Parliament for Witney from 2001 to 2016 was David Cameron, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and the leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. Since 2016 the MP for Witney has been the Conservative Robert Courts. Chipping Norton is part of the South East England constituency for the European Parliament. One Conservative councillor and two Labour councillors represent the town on West Oxfordshire District Council holding"
"At , Kawczynski claimed after his first election in 2005 to be the tallest MP in history and ""officially a giant"". Daniel Kawczynski Daniel Robert Kawczynski (; born 24 January 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Shrewsbury and Atcham in Shropshire, England. The first British MP born in Poland, he was raised in England from the age of seven. In the past he has served as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a parliamentary aide to the former Welsh Secretary David Jones, as well as serving as"
"the Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, Barnet, leaving in 1968 to take up the position of lecturer in computing at the Hackney College, where he remained until his election to parliament 24 years later. He was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Waltham Forest in 1973; he was the leader of the Labour group from 1983, and the leader of the Council from 1986 until he left the council in 1990. He was selected to contest the Chingford constituency at the 1979 general election but was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Norman Tebbit by 12,383"
"had improved. ""The Times"" reported that the Liberal Party candidate Clarendon Hyde had been nursing the constituency for some time, and that local unionists wanted Green to reconsider his retirement. However, Green did not stand again and the Unionist candidate Alfred Bird lost the seat to Clarendon Hyde. He died on 17 November 1941 in Langton, Courtenwell, Tunbridge Wells, aged 72. Walford Davis Green Walford Davis Green (24 August 1869 – 17 November 1941) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1906. Green was born in Blackheath, the son"
"Chingford and its chairman is Barry Legg, who was chief executive of the Conservative Party and a former Member of Parliament. Founded in February 1989, the Bruges Group's original aim was to promote the idea of a less centralised European structure than what they felt was emerging in Brussels. It was established by Lord Harris of High Cross and Oxford University student Patrick Robertson in response to Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech in September 1988, in which she remarked that, ""We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European"
"Vicky Ford Victoria Grace Ford (born 21 September 1967) is a British Conservative Party politician. She is a former Member of the European Parliament for the East of England (2009–17), who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelmsford in the June 2017 general election. Vicky Pollock was born and raised in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Her parents were both English doctors. As a child, she joined her mother campaigning with the peace movement and her father stood in local elections for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. She attended primary school and Omagh Academy in Northern"
"Damian Green Damian Howard Green (born 17 January 1956) is a British politician who has been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Ashford since 1997 and was the First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 11 June 2017 to 20 December 2017. Green was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales and studied PPE at Balliol College, Oxford. Before entering politics, Green worked as a journalist for the BBC, Channel 4 and ""The Times"". Green entered Parliament in the 1997 election by winning the seat of Ashford in Kent. He served in several shadow ministerial"
"the Conservative Party and Prime Minister, David Cameron. This clear party preference led to controversy after Shaun Woodward succeeded the retiring Hurd as Conservative candidate: Woodward was elected in the 1997 General Election, but switched allegiance to the Labour Party in 1999. In the 2001 General Election Woodward stood as the Labour candidate for the more left-friendly seat of St Helens South and David Cameron retook Witney for the Conservatives. He became Prime Minister in coalition with the Liberal Democrats in May 2010 and continued after the 2015 elections in which his Conservative Party gained an absolute majority, but retired"
"Jeff Green (politician) Jeffrey Edwin Green (born 5 May 1957) is a British Conservative politician and former leader of Wirral Council between 2010 and 2011 and in 2012. He was the first Conservative to hold the role in 24 years. Green was first elected to Wirral Council in 1986 in the Tory safe seat of Thurstaston. After boundary change in 2004, Thurstaston was abolished and Green was successfully re-elected to the new West Kirby and Thurstaston ward. In 2002, he succeeded John Hale as leader of the Conservative group, a role he held until 2017 when he lost a leadership"
"and Addington, but lost to Liberal Leona Dombrowsky by almost 2,000 votes. Danford returned to farming after his defeat. Harry Danford Harry Danford (born ) is a Canadian former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999. Danford worked as a farmer before entering politics, and was a member of the Hastings County Milk and Holstein Clubs. He was a member of the Rawdon council from 1982-1984 and served as Reeve and Warden of Hastings County from 1982 to 1994. In the 1995 provincial election, Danford defeated incumbent"
"parishioner of ""St Mary's RC Church"", in Oswaldtwistle. Ken Hargreaves Joseph Kenneth Hargreaves, MBE, KSG (1 March 1939 – 23 June 2012) was the Conservative Member of Parliament, for Hyndburn, Lancashire, between 1983 and 1992, when he lost his seat to Greg Pope from Labour. A chartered secretary and company administrator by profession, he served as a local councillor, and mayor, before his election to Parliament. In 1990, Hargreaves founded the ""Movement for Christian Democracy"", with Liberal Democrat MP David Alton (now Lord Alton of Liverpool), and served as Vice Chairman. After his defeat at the 1992 General Election, he"
"by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; Ashford (UK Parliament constituency) Ashford is a constituency created in 1885 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Damian Green, a Conservative, who served as First Secretary of State between 11 June and 20 December 2017. 1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Tenterden, the Sessional Divisions of Ashford and Cranbrook, the corporate towns of Lydd and New Romney, and part of the Liberty of Romney Marsh. 1918-1950: The Municipal Boroughs of Lydd, New Romney, and Tenterden, the Urban District of Ashford, and the Rural Districts"
"from 2001 to 2003. He was Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2010 to 2016. Duncan Smith is a successor of Sir Winston Churchill, who was also MP for this area and is commemorated by a statue on Woodford Green erected in 1959. The Local bus stop, perversely, describes it as the Churchill Memorial but it was, in fact, erected in his lifetime. In the 1920s and 1930s, Clement Attlee, later Labour Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951, had a residence in Woodford Green, the seat of his political adversary, Winston Churchill. A blue plaque to that effect"
"Norman St John Stevas Norman St John-Stevas Norman Panayea St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, ( ; 18 May 1929 – 2 March 2012) was a British politician, author, and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Leader of the House of Commons in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1981. He was a member of parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Chelmsford from 1964 to 1987, and was made a life peer in 1987. His surname was created by compounding those of his father (Stevas) and mother (St John-O'Connor). Stevas"
"Daniel Kawczynski Daniel Robert Kawczynski (; born 24 January 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Shrewsbury and Atcham in Shropshire, England. The first British MP born in Poland, he was raised in England from the age of seven. In the past he has served as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a parliamentary aide to the former Welsh Secretary David Jones, as well as serving as a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and as Special Advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron on Central and Eastern"
"Walford Davis Green Walford Davis Green (24 August 1869 – 17 November 1941) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1906. Green was born in Blackheath, the son of Rev. Walford Green, a Wesleyan Minister and sometime president of the Wesleyan Methodist conference. He was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with an honours B.A. in modern history in 1891. He won the Members' Prize in 1892 for his short book ""The political career of George Canning"". He was called"
"died at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire in May 1944, aged 63. Edmund Ashworth Radford Edmund Ashworth Radford (February 1881 – 27 May 1944) was a British Conservative politician. He was the son of George Radford of Manchester and Church Stretton. Following education at Buxton College he became a chartered accountant in 1902. At the 1924 general election, Radford was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford South, unseating the sitting Labour MP, Joe Toole. Five years later Toole regained the seat for Labour. A by-election was held at Manchester Rusholme in November 1933, and Radford held the seat"
"was defeated by Labour's Diana Organ. He was President of the National Conservative Convention in 2005, and therefore hosted the 2005 Conservative Party Conference. Paul Marland Paul Marland (born 19 March 1940) is a British Conservative politician. Marland became a Member of Parliament on his third attempt by gaining the marginal seat of West Gloucestershire from Labour in 1979, he was the first Conservative MP for the seat, the other members having been Labour since the seat's creation in 1950. He had fought the seat in each 1974 election, as well as Bedwellty in United Kingdom general election, 1970. He"
"human dignity and the environment, and for the major role he has played in helping to stabilise the world's financial system"". Speeches Gordon Brown James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Blair Government from 1997 to 2007. Brown was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2015, first for Dunfermline East and later for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. A doctoral graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Brown spent his"
"Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree Antony Harold Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree, OBE, PC, DL (29 August 1937 – 25 March 2012) was a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet member. He was the member of Parliament for Braintree from 1974–1997, and was later a member of the House of Lords. Newton was born in Harwich, Essex. He was educated at Friends School Saffron Walden and Trinity College, Oxford, where he was President of Oxford University Conservative Association and the Union. He unsuccessfully fought Sheffield Brightside in the 1970 General Election. In the 1972 Birthday Honours, Newton was appointed"
"party's new leader, Michael Howard, with responsibility for the party's policy on both schools and hospitals. In 2004, Howard made Yeo the Shadow Secretary for the Environment and Transport. Yeo resigned from the shadow cabinet shortly after the 2005 general election, saying he wished to be free to play a role in rethinking the Conservative Party's future. On 27 August, he ruled himself out of the ensuing party leadership election following Howard's resignation, announcing his backing for former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke. The contest was won by the then-Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Skills, David Cameron."
"Paul Channon Henry Paul Guinness Channon, Baron Kelvedon, PC (9 October 1935 – 27 January 2007) was Conservative MP for Southend West for 38 years, from 1959 until 1997. He served in various ministerial offices, and was a Cabinet minister for 3½ years, as President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from January 1986 to June 1987, and then as Secretary of State for Transport to July 1989. Channon was the only child of Sir Henry ""Chips"" Channon, the politician and diarist, and Lady Honor Channon, eldest daughter of Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl"