1. Phillip Anthony Charles Lawrence Oppenheim was born on 20 March 1956 and is a British businessman and former politician.
15 Facts About Phillip Oppenheim
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Phillip Oppenheim is the son of former Conservative government minister Sally Oppenheim-Barnes.
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Phillip Oppenheim was educated at Harrow School, in north-west London, and Oriel College, Oxford.
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Phillip Oppenheim was unexpectedly elected with the largest swing in the 1983 election as the Conservative Member of Parliament for the one time safe-Labour coal mining seat of Amber Valley.
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Phillip Oppenheim represented it until electoral defeat in the 1997 general election to Labour's Judy Mallaber.
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Phillip Oppenheim was in favour of an elected House of Lords and electoral reform.
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An expert on trade policy, Phillip Oppenheim wrote two award-winning books attacking US and European protectionism against both Japan and Third World countries.
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Phillip Oppenheim has blamed this policy for contributing to poverty in the developing world.
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Phillip Oppenheim was a keen sportsman, running for Belgrave Harriers and playing rugby for his constituency team, Amber Valley.
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Phillip Oppenheim ran the family beef and sheep farm near Gloucester, where his mother was the local MP, Sally Oppenheim, consumer affairs minister under Margaret Thatcher.
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Phillip Oppenheim has criticised new Labour's spin culture, along with what he saw as the corrupt sale of peerages, and the Conservative Party for its rightward and increasingly anti-EU drift.
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Phillip Oppenheim is founder and CEO of the Cubana bar and restaurant in London and is credited for introducing Mojitos to the UK from Cuba in the 1990s.
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Phillip Oppenheim is a founder director of Waterloo Quarter, a business-public alliance which aims to improve Waterloo.
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Phillip Oppenheim trades directly with Cuba, importing rum and coffee and was a director of Alma de Cuba coffee, a Cuban coffee brand owned by The Cuba Mountain Coffee Company, which had a project to help mountain coffee farmers in Cuba working with Nespresso, which ended when Donald Trump banned imports of Cuban coffee into the US in 2016.
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Phillip Oppenheim writes a blog, What's Wrong - confessions of an ex-Conservative.