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Nicolas John "Nick" Gibb MP (born
September 3 1960) is a
British politician. He is the
Conservative Member of Parliament for
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. As of December 2005 Gibb holds the post of Shadow
Minister of State for Schools in the
Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition (UK)
Nick Gibb was born in
Amersham,
Buckinghamshire and was educated at the
Maidstone Grammar School,
Kent; the
Roundhay School,
Leeds; and the Thornes House School,
Wakefield. He then attended the
College of St Hild and St Bede at the
University of Durham where he received a
Bachelor of Arts degree in
law in 1981.
In 1982 he joined
NatWest as a trainee
accountant, before working on
Kibbutz Merom Golam in 1983. From 1984 he was employed by
KPMG as a
chartered accountant until his election to
parliament.
He worked as an election agent to
Cecil Parkinson at the
1987 General Election, and became the secretary of the
Bethnal Green and
Stepney Conservative Association in 1988, becoming its chairman the following year. He contested
Stoke-on-Trent Central at the
1992 General Election but was defeated into second place some 13,420 votes behind the sitting
Labour MP
Mark Fisher. Following the death of
James Boyce on
January 25,
1994, he was selected to contest the
1994 Rotherham by-election held on
May 5, 1994. He finished in third place, 12,263 votes behind the winner
Denis MacShane. He was elected to the
House of Commons at the
1997 General Election for the newly created
West Sussex seat of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. Gibb won the seat with a majority of 7,321 and has remained the MP there since. He made his
maiden speech on
July 4,
1997 (External Link
), in which he spoke of the visit of
King George V in 1929 to
Bognor Regis to take in the sea air, hence the suffix of Regis on the town's name. He recalled also the town of
Felpham which was the home of poet
William Blake.
He joined the
frontbench of
William Hague in 1997 when he was appointed as the spokesman on
trade and industry, before joining the
social security select committee later in the year. The following year, in 1998 he rejoined the frontbench as a spokesman on
the treasury, moving back to trade and industry in 1999. He was briefly a spokesman on
environment, transport and the regions following the
2001 General Election but resigned under the leadership of
Iain Duncan Smith.
Michael Howard brought him back to the frontbench following the
2005 General Election, since when he's been a spokesman on
education. Following the election of
David Cameron he was promoted within the education team to shadow Minister for Schools.
He is the brother of
Robbie Gibb, a former
spin doctor. He is a longstanding advocate of
synthetic phonics as a method of teaching children to read, and enjoys long-distance
running. He is also a supporter of the
motor neurone disease cause.
Publications
- Forgotten Closed Shop: Case for Voluntary Membership of Student Unions by Nicholas Gibb and David Neil-Smith, 1985, Cleveland Press ISBN 0-948194-01-4
- Simplifying Taxes by Nick Gibb, 1987
- Duty to Repeal by Nick Gibb, 1989, Adam Smith Institute ISBN 1-870109-71-6
- Bucking the Market by Nick Gibb, 1990
- Maintaining Momentum by Nick Gibb, 1992
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