Howard Emerson Flight, Baron Flight was born on 16 June 1948 and is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom and a member of the House of Lords who was Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 to 2005.
11 Facts About Howard Flight
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Howard Flight held several Shadow posts: Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1999 to 2001, Shadow Paymaster General from 2001 to 2002, and Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2002 to 2004.
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Howard Flight is author of All you Need to know about Exchange Rates, and contributor to the book The City in Europe and the World.
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Howard Flight has been married to Christabel since 1974; they have three children: Kitty, Thomas and Maryanne.
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Howard Flight stood unsuccessfully for Parliament for Bermondsey in the February and October 1974 general elections.
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Howard Flight resigned as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party on 24 March 2005, following comments made at a Conservative Way Forward meeting that was being secretly recorded.
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Howard Flight refused to accept this, maintaining that only his constituency Conservative Association had the power to deselect its candidate.
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Amid speculation, Howard Flight confirmed that he would not stand as an independent and would not oppose any decision by the Association to deselect him.
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On 19 November 2010, it was announced that Howard Flight was to be created a life peer and would sit as a Conservative in the House of Lords.
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On 25 November 2010, a week after the announcement of his intended peerage, Howard Flight apologised after suggesting that the government's changes to child benefits would "discourage the middle classes from breeding, but for those on benefits there is every incentive".
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Howard Flight is a director of companies, including Investec, a venture capital company, his own private equity company, and is chairman of the Entrepreneurs Investment Scheme Association of lawyers and accountants, a trustee and Vice President of the Elgar Foundation, a Member of the Advisory Boards of the Centre for Policy Studies, Institute of Economic Affairs and Financial Services Forum.