Sir Nicholas Barton Harvey was born on 3 August 1961 and is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
25 Facts About Nick Harvey
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Nick Harvey was the member of parliament for North Devon from 1992 to 2015 and the Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 2010 to 2012.
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Nick Harvey was born in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, and was educated at Queen's College, an independent school in the county town of Taunton in Somerset.
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Nick Harvey then attended the Middlesex Polytechnic at Enfield where he was awarded a BA degree in business studies in 1983.
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Nick Harvey was the president of the students' union from 1981 to 1982.
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Nick Harvey joined Profil PR Ltd in 1984 as a communications and marketing executive, before being appointed by the public relations firm Dewe Rogerson as a marketing executive in 1986.
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Nick Harvey worked as a communications consultant from 1991 until his election to parliament.
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Nick Harvey was elected as the vice-chairman of the Union of Liberal Students for a year in 1981.
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Nick Harvey unsuccessfully contested the London Borough of Enfield seat of Enfield Southgate at the 1987 general election.
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Nick Harvey finished in second place some 18,345 votes behind the then government whip Michael Portillo.
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Nick Harvey was elected to the House of Commons for North Devon at the 1992 general election by defeating the Conservative MP, Antony Speller, who had ended the parliamentary career of former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe in the same seat at the 1979 general election.
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Nick Harvey won the seat with a majority of just 794, but remained the MP there until 2015.
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Nick Harvey was made a spokesman on transport in 1992 by Paddy Ashdown, before being moved to speak on trade and industry in 1994.
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Nick Harvey became the spokesman on constitutional affairs following the 1997 general election.
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Nick Harvey became a member the front bench team under Charles Kennedy in 1999 when he became the party's health spokesperson.
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Nick Harvey was a member of both the home affairs select committee and the standards and privileges committee since the 2005 general election.
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Nick Harvey was the vice-chairman of the all party group on beer.
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Nick Harvey was a member of the public bill committee for the Defence Reform Act 2014.
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Nick Harvey lost his seat in the General Election 2015 by 6,936 votes.
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Nick Harvey was appointed as permanent Chief Executive on 28 November 2018, but stood down less than a year later.
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Nick Harvey was the only Liberal Democrat MP to vote against the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and was a critic of Liberal Democratic leader Charles Kennedy, having called into question his "political direction" and "leadership skills".
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Nick Harvey returned to the front bench as defence spokesperson under Kennedy's successor, Sir Menzies Campbell.
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Nick Harvey voted against the Iraq War and called repeatedly for troops to be withdrawn under a phased timetable.
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Nick Harvey voted against the government's decision to renew Britain's nuclear deterrent, Trident.
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Nick Harvey married Kate Nick Harvey in May 2003 in North Devon.