Julian Brazier

Conservative Party | Canterbury

Biography

Biography

Julian Brazier MP leads a protest against the closure of the Kent & Canterbury Hospital

Julian Brazier was educated at Wellington College and won a scholarship in Mathematics to Oxford University. He served as an officer in the Territorial Army for thirteen years, six of them in Airborne forces. A practising Christian (R.C.), he is married to Katharine and they have three sons. Click here for the text of the profile of Julian that appeared in The House magazine.

Political Career

1987 Elected to Parliament for Canterbury and Whitstable. Successful early campaigns ranged from woodland preservation to protecting intellectual property rights against government confiscation. As Secretary to the Parliamentary Maritime Group, Julian helped achieve a better tax status for the Merchant Navy.
1990 Mission to war-torn Beirut to support embattled free enclave.
1990 Appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Gillian Shephard, who was a Treasury Minister and then Secretary of State for Employment.
1993 Resigned to fight cuts in armed services.
1995 Supported John Redwood's leadership challenge against John Major's government.
1996 Organised British delegation to Anglo-Lebanese conference in Beruit on freedom and democracy, held in defiance of Lebanese government and attended by US and UK ambassadors.
1996 Won Spectator Parliamentary Backbencher of the Year Award, for campaigns defending marriage and children's interests.
1996 Appointed President of Conservative Family Campaign.
1997 Re-elected despite huge swing in which half of Conservative seats were lost.
1997 Appointed to All-Party Commons Defence Select Committee.
1996/8 Visits to Washington, Moscow, Budapest, Sarajevo, Kosovo and Belfast.
1999 Co-author of ground-breaking joint UK/US book with five other writers, including Kate O'Beirne and Dr John Hillen "Not Fit to Fight".
2000 Founding Co-Chairman of All Party Adoption Group, established to get children languishing in state care adopted by a loving family.
2001 Appointed to Opposition Whip's Office.
2002 Appointed a Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions.
2003 Appointed a Shadow Minister for the Home Office.

To find out more about me and my work for the people of Canterbury, visit my website: www.julianbrazier.co.uk.