1. Nick Herbert was Minister of State for Police and Criminal Justice, with his time split between the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice, from 2010 to 2012.
23 Facts About Nick Herbert
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On 31 July 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that Nick Herbert would enter the House of Lords.
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Nick Herbert was educated at Haileybury and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he studied law and land economy.
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Nick Herbert went on to be appointed as the director of public affairs at the British Field Sports Society in 1990 and remained in that position for six years, from which he helped to form the Countryside Movement, which later became the Countryside Alliance.
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Nick Herbert joined Business for Sterling in 1998 as its chief executive where he led the launch of the No Campaign against adopting the Euro currency, and hired a young Dominic Cummings as campaign director, giving Cummings his first job in politics.
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Nick Herbert unsuccessfully contested the Northumberland seat of Berwick-upon-Tweed at the 1997 general election where he finished in third place some 8,951 votes behind the veteran Liberal Democrat MP Alan Beith.
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Nick Herbert was then selected as the new Conservative candidate, ahead of future MPs Anne Marie Morris and Laura Sandys, despite Nick Herbert writing an article in The Spectator that the vice-president of the Arundel and South Downs Conservatives had felt was much more radical than Flight's rhetoric.
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Nick Herbert was elected as the Conservative MP for Arundel and South Downs at the 2005 general election, holding the seat with a slightly reduced majority of 11,309.
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Nick Herbert made his maiden speech on 6 June 2005.
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Nick Herbert was appointed a Privy Counsellor on 9 June 2010.
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Nick Herbert championed the introduction of elected Police and Crime Commissioners to replace police authorities.
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Nick Herbert decided to step down from Government at the time of David Cameron's first major reshuffle in September 2012.
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Nick Herbert formed, and co-chaired, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB, and in 2014 launched the Global TB Caucus which he co-chairs with South Africa's Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, initiating the Barcelona Declaration with a speech to the World Lung Conference.
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Nick Herbert supported the legalisation of same-sex marriage, launching the Freedom to Marry campaign in 2012 ahead of the successful Marriage Act 2013.
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In June 2015, Nick Herbert helped to launch, and became the first chair, of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global LGBT Rights.
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In January 2016, Nick Herbert launched Conservatives for Reform in Europe, a campaign to remain in the European Union, subject to the Prime Minister's renegotiations.
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Nick Herbert was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.
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In October 2019, Nick Herbert rejoined the Countryside Alliance, of which he was a founder, as chairman.
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In November 2019, Nick Herbert announced his resignation as MP in order to focus on his other campaign roles on rural issues, central governance reform, combatting tuberculosis and securing LGBT rights worldwide.
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Lord Nick Herbert made his maiden speech on 1 October 2020, a month after entering the Lords.
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From January 2021, Nick Herbert was appointed Chair of College of Policing.
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Nick Herbert has enjoyed fox hunting since his childhood, spending 14 years as master of the Newmarket Beagles.
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Nick Herbert joined his long-term partner, Jason Eades, in civil partnership in early January 2009.