1. Nick Gibb was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, and was educated at the College of St Hild and St Bede at the University of Durham.
25 Facts About Nick Gibb
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Nick Gibb was Shadow Minister for Schools from 2005 to 2010.
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Nick Gibb was appointed Minister of State for Schools by Prime Minister David Cameron, serving from May 2010 and September 2012.
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Nick Gibb's portfolio returned to its previous name as Minister of State for Schools after the 2015 general election.
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Nick Gibb was retained as Minister of State for School Standards by May's successor, Boris Johnson; Gibb was removed from the role by Johnson in September 2021.
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Nick Gibb returned as Minister of State for Schools under Rishi Sunak in October 2022 and voluntarily left Government in the November 2023 reshuffle.
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Nicolas Nick Gibb was born on 3 September 1960 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, and was educated at the private Bedford Modern School, the grammar school Maidstone Grammar School, the comprehensive Roundhay School in Leeds, and Thornes House School in Wakefield.
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Nick Gibb then attended the College of St Hild and St Bede at the University of Durham where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law in 1981.
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Nick Gibb was a member of the Federation of Conservative Students at a time when they were influenced by radical libertarian ideas.
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Nick Gibb stood for election to the NUS committee in 1981, but only achieved a single vote after accusing the NUS of openly supporting terrorist organisations.
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In 1982, Nick Gibb joined NatWest as a trainee accountant, before working on Kibbutz Merom Golan in 1983.
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Nick Gibb is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
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Shortly after his election, Nick Gibb joined the opposition frontbench of William Hague when he was appointed as the spokesman on trade and industry in 1997, before joining the social security select committee later in the year.
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Nick Gibb was reportedly involved in the faction-fight between supporters of William Hague and Michael Portillo, the then shadow chancellor, as a supporter of Portillo.
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Nick Gibb is a longstanding advocate of synthetic phonics as a method of teaching children to read, having first publicly raised this in 2006.
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Nick Gibb was sacked in a reshuffle in September 2012, but returned to the same department, again as a Minister of State, in July 2014.
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Just days after being appointed as Minister for Schools in 2010, Nick Gibb was criticised by teachers and educationalists after leaked information suggested he had told officials at the Department of Education that he "would rather have a physics graduate from Oxbridge without a PGCE teaching in a school than a physics graduate from one of the rubbish universities with a PGCE".
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In 2012 Nick Gibb was reported to have described attempts to include public speaking classes intending to foster empowerment among public students as "encouraging idle chatter in class".
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Nick Gibb was sacked in a reshuffle in September 2012, but returned to the same department, again as a Minister of State, in July 2014.
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Nick Gibb supported the Remain campaign in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
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Nick Gibb was sacked by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the September 2021 reshuffle and returned to the back benches.
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On 4 February 2022, Nick Gibb called for the Prime Minister to resign over Partygate.
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Nick Gibb's resigned this post on 13 November 2023, and announced that he would stand down from Parliament at the 2024 general election.
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Nick Gibb is the brother of Sir Robbie Nick Gibb, a former PR consultant and ex-editor of the BBC's political programmes, The Daily Politics and This Week, who was announced as Director of Communications for Prime Minister Theresa May in July 2017.
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In May 2015, Nick Gibb came out as gay and announced his engagement to Michael Simmonds, the chief executive of the Populus polling organisation.