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Profile: The man who would be charities minister
Greg Clark went to Cambridge University, worked in big business and has a safe seat in Tunbridge Wells, deep in the garden of England. He seems, on first impressions, to be a typical Tory MP.
But his true-blue present conceals a strikingly different past. The son of a milkman, he grew up in one of the most deprived areas of Middlesbrough, where he attended his local comprehensive school. He can therefore justifiably claim to be that rare political creature: a northern, working-class Conservative MP.
The Teesside accent may have softened but Clark, who was appointed shadow charities minister in November 2006, says his upbringing was the key factor in his political development.
It has been quite some development. Aged 41, he is regarded as one of the bright young things of David Cameron's new-look party. But who would have thought that a boy brought up in one of the areas most blighted during the Thatcher era would play a key part i
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Clark, Greg
Greg Clark was first elected as the Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells in 2005, and was re-elected in 2019 with a majority of 14,645.
The constituency of Tunbridge Wells in western Kent spreads out from the town of Tunbridge Wells and its satellite suburb of Southborough, to include the smaller towns of Hawkhurst and Paddock Wood, alongside a number of affluent villages close to the Sussex border. It contains a high number of London bound commuters as well as a large base for the financial services firm Axa.
This seat was formerly represented bygd the Conservative Northern Ireland Secretary, Sir Patrick Mayhew, and then briefly bygd the Asda supermarket supremo, Archie Norman. The seat has always backed the Conservatives, as per the “disgusted” of Tunbridge Wells stereotype, but like many other kurort towns, it often been at the edges of the frikostig Democrat radar. The Conservatives lost 10 seats in Tunbridge Wells in the 2022 local elections.
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Two Secretaries of State, whose tenure in office covered significant periods of the Post Office scandal gave evidence at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry today. They are the most senior ranked and last politicians to give evidence in this phase, and some of what they had to say was illuminating, but not much.
Vince Cable was business secretary during the coalition government from 2010 to 2015. Greg Clark held the same post for the duration of Theresa May’s government, from 2016 to 2019. Clark made it clear he had no love for the Post Office given the way they had treated one of his constituents. In 2010, former Subpostmaster Pauline Thomson pleaded guilty to false accounting in a deal with the Post Office prosecutors who had initially accused her of the theft of £34,000 from her Post Office.
Shortly afterwards, Thomson joined the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance and in 2013 joined the Post Office’s complaint and mediation scheme. In February 2015 Thomson was to