Sir John William Frederic Nott was born on 1 February 1932 and is a former British Conservative Party politician.
28 Facts About John Nott
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John Nott was a senior politician of the late 1970s and early 1980s, playing a prominent role as Secretary of State for Defence during the 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands and subsequent Falklands War.
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John Nott served in the Malayan Emergency after a period of service with the Royal Scots.
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John Nott left to study law and economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society.
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John Nott was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1959.
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John Nott served as Member of Parliament for the Cornwall constituency of St Ives from 1966 to 1983.
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John Nott was the last person to commence his parliamentary career under the nearly obsolete National Liberal label.
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The National Liberals were formally absorbed by the Conservatives in 1968, after which John Nott sat as a Conservative MP.
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John Nott served in the early-1970s Heath government as Minister of State at the Treasury.
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John Nott joined the Shadow Cabinet in 1976 and the Cabinet when Margaret Thatcher won the 1979 general election.
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John Nott served first as Secretary of State for Trade, which incorporated the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection.
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John Nott was responsible for repealing the prices and incomes policy and played a leading role in the abolition of Exchange Control.
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John Nott was moved to Defence in the reshuffle of January 1981.
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John Nott switched the resultant savings into nuclear submarines, naval weapon systems and air defence.
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John Nott closed Chatham Dockyard and ended the mid-life modernisation of old frigates.
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John Nott took through Parliament the upgrading of the nuclear deterrent to the current Trident system.
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John Nott offered his resignation as Defence Secretary to Thatcher following the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands in March 1982.
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John Nott remained Secretary of State for Defence throughout the four-month conflict.
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John Nott was eventually replaced by Michael Heseltine in January 1983 after Nott decided not to seek re-election at the next General Election.
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John Nott was chairman of Hillsdown Holdings, a multi-national food company, the Canadian firm Maple Leaf Foods, deputy chairman of Royal Insurance.
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John Nott was an adviser to APAX Partners and Freshfields.
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John Nott is a supporter of Brexit, the move to leave the European Union.
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In 2016, John Nott criticised the "poisoned EU debate" in the Conservative Party, and suspended his party membership until there was a change of leadership.
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John Nott met his future wife Miloska, a Slovene, at the University of Cambridge.
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Lady John Nott was awarded an OBE in 2012 for her humanitarian work.
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The title of John Nott's autobiography Here Today, Gone Tomorrow is a reference to an interview conducted by Sir Robin Day in October 1982.
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John Nott promptly stood up calling the interview "ridiculous", removed his microphone and walked off the set.
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John Nott was portrayed by Clive Merrison in the 2002 BBC production of Ian Curteis's controversial The Falklands Play.