Alan James Carter Duncan
Biography
Alan Duncan was re-elected MP for Rutland and Melton in May 2010 with a majority of 14,000 votes.
After the 2010 general election he became minister of state at the Department for International Development
.In July 2002 he became the first ever Conservative MP to declare openly that he is gay. In July 2008 he became the first Conservative politician to enter into a civil partnership. His 1995 book 'Saturn's Children' : How the state devours liberty, prosperity and virtue is regarded as a seminal work. It argued that the steady growth of the state over the last century has made Britain less free, less rich and less moral.
It was his campaign skills which secured the election of William Hague as Leader in 1997 following the resignation of John Major after seven years as Prime Minister. He has held a series of posts in the Shadow Cabinet, including International Development, Transport and now Trade & Industry.
A popular figure on TV and radio, he is now one of the inner core of senior Conservatives who are realigning the party under its new leader, David Cameron.
The middle son of an officer in the RAF who served with NATO for most of his career, Alan was educated at Oxford University, where he read politics & economics, and then later as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard.
After an initial period with Shell, he spent over ten years as an oil trader with Marc Rich, and is regarded as the Conservative Party's most informed pundit on the politics of the Middle East.
Since 1992 he has been the MP for Rutland & Melton, a traditional rural area in the middle of England, about 100 miles north of London.
Constituency
AlanDuncan4MP
Constituency Address
Office of Alan Duncan MP 33 High Street Melton Mowbray Leicestershire LE13 0TR
Constituency Tel
01664 411 211
Date of Birth
31 March 1957
baldaml@parliament.uk
Party
Conservative
Personal Website
http://www.alanduncan.org.uk/
Westminster Address
Alan Duncan MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA
Westminster Tel
0202 7219 5204
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