15 Facts About Robert Syms

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Sir Robert Andrew Raymond Syms was born on 15 August 1956 and is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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Robert Syms has been the Member of Parliament for Poole in Dorset since 1997.

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Robert Syms was leader of North Wiltshire District Council from 1984 to 1987 and a Wiltshire County Councillor from 1985 to 1997.

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Robert Syms was managing director of his family's plant hire firm on Bristol Road in Chippenham, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building.

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Robert Syms retains a directorship and shareholding in Marden Holdings Ltd, headquartered in Bristol Road, Chippenham.

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Robert Syms contested Walsall North in 1992, but was first elected to the House of Commons as MP for Poole in the 1997 general election.

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Robert Syms served on the opposition front bench from 1998 to 2007.

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Robert Syms was shadow spokesman for environment, transport and the regions between 1999 and 2001, an opposition whip for a few months in 2003, and shadow minister in the office of the deputy Prime Minister and for communities and local government between 2003 and 2007.

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Robert Syms was vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party between 2001 and 2002.

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Robert Syms was an assistant whip for the Coalition government between 2012 and 2013.

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Robert Syms has served on a variety of select committees, acting as chair of the Regulatory Reform Committee from July 2010 to September 2012 and the High Speed Rail select committee from April 2014 to February 2016.

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Robert Syms organised a letter signed by more than 80 fellow Eurosceptic Conservative MPs urging David Cameron to continue as Prime Minister regardless of the result of the EU referendum in 2016.

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In 2017, Robert Syms was criticised for name calling on Twitter.

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Robert Syms replied to a tweet calling the Conservative-DUP deal after the 2017 general election a "coalition", by calling the twitter user a "dick".

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In 2020, Robert Syms became a "lockdown rebel" and a steering committee member of the lockdown-sceptic COVID Recovery Group alongside a group of Conservative MPs who opposed the UK government's December 2020 lockdown.