1. Huw William Merriman was born on 13 July 1973 and is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle in East Sussex from 2015 to 2024.
23 Facts About Huw Merriman
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Huw Merriman previously chaired the Transport Select Committee between January 2020 and October 2022.
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Huw Merriman was born on 13 July 1973 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, to Richard and Ann Huw Merriman.
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Huw Merriman's father was a local council worker and his mother was a teacher.
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Huw Merriman grew up in Buckingham and attended Buckingham County Secondary Modern School and Aylesbury College.
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Huw Merriman studied law at Durham University, where he was president of the Young Conservatives branch in 1994.
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Huw Merriman initially worked in criminal law before working in financial law for 17 years.
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Huw Merriman moved to East Sussex in 2006 and was elected to Wealden District Council for the Rotherfield ward in 2007 and was re-elected in 2011.
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Huw Merriman stood as a Conservative candidate for North East Derbyshire in the 2010 general election.
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Huw Merriman came second to the incumbent Labour MP Natascha Engel.
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Huw Merriman was selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Bexhill and Battle in November 2014.
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Huw Merriman won the seat in the 2015 general election with 30,245 votes and a majority of 20,075.
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Huw Merriman was appointed as PPS to then Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond.
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Huw Merriman supported the UK remaining within the European Union in the 2016 UK EU membership referendum.
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Huw Merriman voted for then Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement in early 2019.
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Huw Merriman supported Jeremy Hunt in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election.
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Huw Merriman voted for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit withdrawal agreement in October 2019.
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Huw Merriman was the chair of the Transport Select Committee between January 2020 and October 2022.
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Huw Merriman had previously been a member of the committee since September 2017 and was a member of the Liaison Committee between May 2020 and October 2022.
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Huw Merriman was appointed as Minister of State for Rail and HS2 in October 2022.
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Huw Merriman did not stand for re-election at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, and subsequently took on the role as Chair of the Liverpool Manchester Railway Board.
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Huw Merriman married Victoria Powdrill in 2001 and they have three daughters.
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In 2016 Huw Merriman had an affair with a political aide which led to the birth of a child.