Nicholas True was educated at Nottingham High School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973; as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts in 1978.
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Nicholas True worked in the Conservative Research Department from 1975 to 1982, serving as assistant to the Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 1978 to 1982.
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Nicholas True then moved to be Director of the Public Policy Unit from 1986 to 1990.
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Nicholas True was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1993 New Year Honours.
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Nicholas True served as private secretary to the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords and Director of the Opposition Whips' Office there from 1997 to 2010.
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Nicholas True was a Conservative councillor in the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames from 1986 to 1990 and again from 1998 to 2018.
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Nicholas True served as Leader of the Council from 2010 to 2017, having previously served as Deputy Leader from 2002 to 2006 and Leader of the Opposition from 2006 to 2010.
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Nicholas True has been, since 2006, a trustee of the Richmond Civic Trust, and since 1996 a trustee of Sir Harold Hood's Charitable Trust.
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Nicholas True served the Olga Havel Foundation in the same capacity from 1990 to 1994.
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In February 2020 Nicholas True was made a Minister of State at the Cabinet Office.
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