Norman Fowler held the office of Lord Speaker from 1 September 2016 to 30 April 2021.
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15 Facts About Norman Fowler
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Norman Fowler resigned from the cabinet as Employment Secretary, and was knighted in 1990.
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Norman Fowler was Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1994, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions from 1997 to 1998, and Shadow Home Secretary from 1998 to 1999.
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Norman Fowler renounced party political allegiance upon taking office as Lord Speaker.
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Norman Fowler was elected for Nottingham South in 1970; after the seat was abolished, he switched to Sutton Coldfield at the February 1974 election.
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Norman Fowler later resigned from the Cabinet as Employment Secretary in January 1990; he later claimed that he was the first politician to cite "to spend more time with my [his] family" as his reason for leaving office, a phrase that has been reused by many others as a reason for a resignation and is often treated as a euphemism.
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Norman Fowler then returned twice to front-line politics, first as Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1994, during which time he oversaw the parliamentary boundary changes of the early 1990s; then on the Conservative front bench as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions and finally as Shadow Home Secretary.
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In 2003, Lord Norman Fowler proposed that the European Union should appoint a high-level coordinator with ambassadorial rank to deal with the AIDS epidemic.
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Norman Fowler is the third person and first man to hold the office since it was established by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.
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Norman Fowler has stated that he favours reducing the House of Lords to 600 members.
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On 25 February 2021, Norman Fowler announced that he would be stepping down ahead of the introduction of a series of structural and organisational changes and announced that it would be best if those changes were "seen through by the team who will be implementing them".
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Norman Fowler stated his desire to stand down in order to "speak his mind" as an independent member of the House of Lords on issues he has campaigned for, in particular LGBT rights in the United Kingdom and HIV and AIDS.
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Lord Norman Fowler has served on the board of directors of several companies and is non-executive chairman of Aggregate Industries plc.
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Norman Fowler is a member of the National Union of Journalists.
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