Francis Nigel Forman was a British Conservative politician.
31 Facts About Nigel Forman
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Nigel Forman became a junior minister, Minister of Higher Education, in April 1992, but resigned from that office after 8 months.
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Nigel Forman was born in Simla, India where his father served as a brigadier in the Indian Army.
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Nigel Forman was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School, New College, Oxford, College of Europe, Harvard and Sussex University.
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Nigel Forman obtained various degrees from the latter four including a Master of Public Administration from Harvard, a Certificate of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe and a Ph.
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Nigel Forman progressed rapidly in the CRD, acting as 'external affairs adviser' to Official Opposition leader Edward Heath.
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Nigel Forman served Margaret Thatcher in the same capacity from 1975 to 1976.
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Nigel Forman was promoted to Assistant Director with special responsibility for European affairs.
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Nigel Forman contested the Coventry North East seat as a member of the party in the February 1974 contest but was not elected.
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Nigel Forman was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Carshalton at its by-election on 11 March 1976.
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Nigel Forman took the seat with a 10,000 majority over Labour, compared with Carr's 4,000 majority in October 1974.
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All three major parties had entrenched support and Nigel Forman's lead looked vulnerable to tactical voting.
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Nigel Forman soon established himself as a bright and enthusiastic MP.
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Nigel Forman served as Parliamentary Private Secretary first to Lord Carrington in the Foreign Office and later to Douglas Hurd in the Home Office.
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Nigel Forman soon became known as a moderate Conservative who differed with some of Thatcher's policies.
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Nigel Forman expressed alarm at mounting unemployment arising from the government's economic and financial policies.
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Nigel Forman frequently called for a "one nation" approach in his speeches and writings.
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Nigel Forman disapproved of government policies which promoted London-bound internal migration and were socially divisive.
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Nigel Forman favoured closer integration of Britain with the European Union.
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Nigel Forman advocated employment and economic policies which were broadly consistent with those pursued by the Callaghan ministry.
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Nigel Forman was seen as a Conservative opponent of Thatcherism.
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Nigel Forman lost but had become clearly identified with "wets" and the one-nation group of Tory MPs.
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Nigel Forman publicly attributed this to the shortcomings of the local Conservative leadership.
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However, Nigel Forman comfortably held his seat in the 1987 general election.
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The ideology Nigel Forman referred to was the then fashionable combination of supply side economics, monetarism, deregulation and privatisation known in the 1980s as Thatcherism.
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Immediately after the general election in April 1992 Nigel Forman was appointed Under Secretary of State for Education under Education Secretary John Patten.
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Nigel Forman unexpectedly resigned from his ministerial post on 11 December 1992 for "personal reasons".
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Colleagues commented that Nigel Forman was "a very private man" and nobody claimed to know why he had resigned.
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At the 1997 general election, Nigel Forman lost his seat to the Liberal Democrat candidate Tom Brake.
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Nigel Forman initially developed a portfolio of lecturing and writing work.
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Nigel Forman was a visiting lecturer at Essex University and an honorary research fellow at University College London.