Keith Lander Best was born on 10 June 1949 and is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
17 Facts About Keith Best
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Keith Best was Member of Parliament for Anglesey from 1979 when he gained the seat from Labour until 1983, and for the renamed Ynys Mon from 1983 to 1987.
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Keith Best was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Wales from 1981 to 1984.
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Keith Best resigned his seat in 1987 following the revelation by the Labour Research Department that he had made multiple share applications in the BT offer.
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Keith Best has since led the organisations Prisoners Abroad, the Immigration Advisory Service, Freedom from Torture and SurvivorsUK.
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Keith Best was born in Brighton, and was educated at Brighton College and Keble College, Oxford, before becoming a barrister in 1973.
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Keith Best submitted several applications by using minor variations of his name.
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In 2000 Keith Best failed in a bid for reselection by the Conservative Party in Ynys Mon.
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Keith Best is the former Chair of Parliamentarians Global Action.
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Keith Best is Chairman of Conservative Action for Electoral Reform.
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Keith Best was then appointed the first Chief Executive of SurvivorsUK which he left in April 2017 in order to undertake consultancy and more charity work.
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Keith Best is currently Chair of the Universal Peace Federation, Chair of the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust charity, Chair of Charity Forum and Chair of the St Nazaire Raid Memorial Trust as well as Secretary of the Parliamentary Outreach Trust and formerly Secretary of the European Movement.
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Keith Best is married to Elizabeth Gibson, former Chief Executive of the charity the Evelina Family Trust and Office Manager of British Future; and they have two daughters.
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When his wife stood as the Conservative candidate for Birmingham Hodge Hill at the 1992 general election, Keith Best acted as her election agent.
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In 2017, Keith Best became one of the founding members of Citizens for Britain.
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Keith Best is the author of Write Your Own Will 1978, The Right Way to Prove a Will, 1981 and of various articles in magazines, Wall Street Journal, newspapers etc.
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Keith Best contributed a chapter to the 2021 book Religious Soft Diplomacy and the United Nations: Religious Engagement as Loyal Opposition.