Nicholas Henry Bourne, Baron Bourne of Aberystwyth was born on 1 January 1952 and is a Conservative Party politician who served as Leader of the Welsh Conservative Party and Member of the Senedd for Mid and West Wales from August 1999 until May 2011.
21 Facts About Nick Bourne
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Nick Bourne was elevated to the House of Lords in September 2013, and the following year, became a government whip.
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Nick Bourne was educated at King Edward VI School, Chelmsford; University of Wales, Aberystwyth; and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of Cambridge University Lawyers and Treasurer of Cambridge University Conservative Association.
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Nick Bourne is the Honorary President of Aberystwyth University Conservative Future.
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Nick Bourne obtained the bachelor of laws and LLM from University of Wales and the LLM from Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Nick Bourne was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Grays Inn.
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In 2015, Nick Bourne was made a fellow of Aberystwyth University and in 2018, he received the Honorary degree of LLD from the University of Wales, Trinity St David.
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Nick Bourne was the Conservative Party candidate in the 1984 Chesterfield by-election, having stood in the same constituency at the previous year's general election.
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Nick Bourne fought the Worcester constituency in the 1997 general election.
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Nick Bourne was the Conservatives' chief spokesman in Wales, and led the unsuccessful "Just Say NO" campaign against Welsh devolution, during the 1997 referendum.
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Nick Bourne headed the regional list for the Conservatives for the entire period that he was in the National Assembly.
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Nick Bourne sat on the Assembly's European and External Affairs committee and was the party's spokesman on constitutional matters.
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Nick Bourne was the leader of the Welsh Conservatives from August 1999, and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly from July 2007.
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Nick Bourne campaigned for rural communities, opposing onshore wind farm developments, the closure of post offices and small schools, and supporting improved health care provision in non-urban areas.
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Nick Bourne campaigned on issues such as the need for a referendum on plans to give the assembly law making powers and supported the campaign for more legislative powers when David Cameron granted a referendum, the future of the National Botanic Garden, and on the growing cost of government in Wales.
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Nick Bourne is a member of the Doctors and Dentists Pay Review Body.
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Nick Bourne was appointed by Edwina Hart to chair the Haven Waterway Enterprise Zone from 2012 to August 2014.
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Nick Bourne was created a life peer on 9 September 2013, taking the title Baron Nick Bourne of Aberystwyth, of Aberystwyth in the County of Ceredigion, and of Wethersfield in the County of Essex.
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Lord Nick Bourne was made a whip in the House of Lords on 11 August 2014, replacing Lord Bates who had been promoted as part of a mini-reshuffle following the resignation of Baroness Warsi.
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Lord Nick Bourne received the National "No to Hate Crime Award" for 2019 from the Anti-Hate Organisation Tell MAMA which campaigns against Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred.
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In December 2019, Lord Nick Bourne was appointed President of Remembering Srebrenica, a British charity initiative which is dedicated to bringing communities together to combat prejudice and intolerance.