1. Robert William Henry Seely was born on 1966 and is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight from 2017 until the constituency was split in two in 2024.
29 Facts About Bob Seely
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Bob Seely was privately educated at both Arnold House School and at Harrow School.
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Bob Seely served as both an NCO and officer in the UK Armed Forces.
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Bob Seely then served on the Afghanistan, Libya and ISIS campaigns.
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Bob Seely was awarded the Military MBE in the 2016 Operational Awards and Honours List whilst serving in the Intelligence Corps.
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Bob Seely has been a research associate at the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford.
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On 16 May 2019 Bob Seely co-authored, with Peter Varnish and John Hemmings, an investigation into the Chinese tech giant Huawei and its possible role in the development of 5G.
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In July 2019 Bob Seely wrote for the Royal United Service Institute on the Surkov leaks, analysing the leaked emails to provide "a guide to Russian subversive warfare".
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Bob Seely resigned as a county Councillor in late 2017, once elected to Parliament.
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On 12 July 2017 Bob Seely established the All Party Parliamentary Group for UK Islands, to promote the interests of islands around the UK.
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Also in October 2018, Bob Seely hosted a press conference in parliament, in conjunction with the online investigative journalist website Bellingcat, to announce the identity of the second Skripal assassin suspect.
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Bob Seely was appointed the position of Parliamentary private secretary to the Ministerial team at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in January 2019.
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On 16 July 2019 Bob Seely resigned from this position following his decision to vote against Government over HS2.
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In February 2018 Bob Seely was elected to sit on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, whose remit is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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In July 2018 Bob Seely was elected to the Committees on Arms Export Controls.
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On 31 May 2019 Bob Seely wrote an article for CapX stating that he was supporting Michael Gove in his bid to become leader of the Conservative Party.
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In early May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government announced that a contact-tracing app would be trialled on the Isle of Wight, a move for which Bob Seely had lobbied Government.
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Bob Seely cited the use of drones to supply St Mary's Hospital and money for the island's telemedicine project.
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Bob Seely stated that he had gone to speak to Gray regarding his article about the app.
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Bob Seely apologised two weeks later, saying that "I called this wrong".
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Bob Seely told his local County Press newspaper that the analysis needed more research to ensure its accuracy.
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Bob Seely contributed to an April 2020 study examining the strategic trade dependency on China of the "Five Eyes" group of nations.
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Bob Seely voted in favour of the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill at the second debate on 16 March 2021.
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In June 2022 Bob Seely voted to have confidence in the Conservative Party leadership of Boris Johnson after receiving council funding assurances.
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Bob Seely stood for the Isle of Wight West constituency but was defeated by the Labour candidate Richard Quigley.
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Bob Seely was born to an English father and German mother.
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Bob Seely comes from a family long involved in politics.
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Bob Seely is a keen swimmer and has swum the Solent a number of times for charity, most recently in August 2020 to raise funds for the West Wight Sports and Community Centre.
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In July 2018 Bob Seely took part in the parade for Isle of Wight Pride, where he was joined by Conchita Wurst.