29 Facts About Jesse Norman

Alexander Jesse Norman was born on 23 June 1962 and is a British Conservative Party politician, who has served as Minister of State for Decarbonisation and Technology since October 2022.

Jesse Norman previously served as Minister of State for the Americas and the Overseas Territories from September to October 2022.

Jesse Norman served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2021.

Jesse Norman has been the Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire since 2010.

Jesse Norman was first elected as the Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire at the 2010 general election, having been selected as his party's candidate by open primary in December 2006.

Jesse Norman chaired the Culture, Media and Sport Committee from 2015 to 2016.

Jesse Norman was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport after the 2017 general election, before advancing to Minister of State at the same department in November 2018.

In May 2019, Jesse Norman was appointed Paymaster General and Financial Secretary to the Treasury by May; he remained in the latter position under her successor, Boris Johnson, until he stepped down in September 2021.

Jesse Norman was educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford, graduating with a Second in Classics.

Jesse Norman pursued further studies at University College London, where he was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow in philosophy, taking an MPhil in 1999 and a PhD in 2003.

Jesse Norman lectured in philosophy at University College and Birkbeck.

Jesse Norman was for many years a Trustee of The Roundhouse, an arts venue and charity founded by his father, Sir Torquil Norman.

Jesse Norman has served on the boards of the Hay Festival, the Kindle Centre in Hereford and the Friends of St Mary's Ross-on-Wye.

Jesse Norman was a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and writes regularly for the national press.

At the 2006 local elections in Camden, Jesse Norman was one of the three Conservative candidates for Camden Town with Primrose Hill ward.

Jesse Norman was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from July 2010 to March 2015, is Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Employee Ownership, founder of the PFI Rebate Campaign and founding member of the Campaign for an Effective Second Chamber which campaigns for the House of Lords to be appointed rather than elected.

On 10 July 2012, Jesse Norman was identified as a ringleader of the rebellion over the House of Lords Reform package presented to the House of Commons.

Jesse Norman rebutted much of this narrative in an article for The Spectator.

In 2013, Jesse Norman said that so many Old Etonians were in government positions because of Eton's "ethos" of public service that "other schools don't imbue the same commitment".

Later on Twitter, Jesse Norman said his comments were "defending one institution, not attacking others".

Jesse Norman describes his educational background as following "an educational argument between my mother, who despised any form of privilege, and my father, who took the view that he had set up his own business, so he was entitled to spend money on his kids' education".

Jesse Norman was dismissed from Downing Street's Policy Board after rebelling against the Government again in opposition to military intervention in Syria.

Jesse Norman argued that the EU constitution requires elected heads to choose its "President" and secondly that Juncker's manifesto fails to tackle what he sees as the President's duty to address the unpopularity of EU mandates.

Jesse Norman said that democracy, for the British, involves legitimacy derived from the ballot box, whereas for some Europeans, it involves centralised bureaucracy.

In September 2014, Jesse Norman raised the issue of rules concerning football club ownership in the House of Commons, alleging the then-Chairman of Hereford United had a criminal conviction, in support of Supporters Trust's campaign to oust the Agombar regime at Hereford Utd FC.

In 2017, Jesse Norman expressed support for fellow Old Etonian Jacob Rees-Mogg to lead the party.

Jesse Norman subsequently felt obliged to contact the newspaper concerned to say that his was a light-hearted response to a question in an interview about whether Rees-Mogg would make a good candidate and he was not backing him.

In 1992, Jesse Norman married Kate Bingham, only daughter of The Lord Bingham of Cornhill, KG, the former Lord Chief Justice.

Jesse Norman is a football fan, and a member of Westfields Football Club.