1. John David Penrose was born on 22 June 1964 and is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare from 2005 until 2024.
20 Facts About John Penrose
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John Penrose resigned on 6 June 2022 as the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion due to the Boris Johnson Partygate scandal.
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John Penrose was Minister of State for Northern Ireland from 2018 to 2019.
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John Penrose was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, on 22 June 1964.
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John Penrose was privately educated at Ipswich School and studied at Downing College, Cambridge, receiving a BA in law in 1986.
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John Penrose received an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York in 1991.
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John Penrose was commercial director of the Academic Books Division at Thomson Publishing in Andover from 1995 to 1996, then managing director of schools book publishing at Longman, publishing school textbooks for the UK and parts of Africa.
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John Penrose was chairman of Logotron Ltd in Cambridge.
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John Penrose served on the Work and Pensions Committee from July 2005 to January 2009, and in 2006 was appointed joint chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Further Education and Lifelong Learning.
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John Penrose wrote a paper on how to give people a better deal on their utilities.
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John Penrose was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.
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Since the result was announced, John Penrose supported the official position of his party as an advocate of leaving the European Union.
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John Penrose was appointed the Prime Minister's Anti-Corruption Champion in December 2017, and then reappointed in July 2019.
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John Penrose was a Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office from November 2018 to July 2019.
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John Penrose came under criticism for voting to change lobbying rules in order to defend his Conservative colleague Owen Paterson, who had been found to have "repeatedly used his privileged position to benefit two companies for whom he was a paid consultant".
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John Penrose defended the government's issuing of such contracts to Conservative donors, associates and inexperienced companies.
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John Penrose met Dido Harding, only daughter of Lord Harding of Petherton, while both worked at McKinsey.
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John Penrose has a house in his Weston-super-Mare constituency and a flat in London.
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The Daily Telegraph reported that this was noteworthy as John Penrose had argued in 2013, in a previous ministerial role, for greater protection of historic views, suggesting some of the finest urban views in the country should be listed like buildings.
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In May 2020, John Penrose joined the advisory board of the think tank 1828 which has campaigned to scrap the NHS and replace it with a health insurance based system.