Jesse Norman
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| Born | Alexander Jesse Norman 23 June 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Merton College (Oxford), University College London | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Kate Bingham | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Franco-British Colloque | ||||||||||||||||||
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Jesse Norman is a British Conservative Party politician, who has been Minister of State for Decarbonisation and Technology since October 2022. He was previously Minister of State for the Americas and the Overseas Territories from September to October 2022. He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2021, and has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Hereford and South Herefordshire since 2010.
Jesse Norman was a director at Barclays before leaving the City in 1997 to research and teach at University College London. Prior to that he ran an educational charity in Eastern Europe during and after the Communist era. Despite his unconventional past, Norman was identified by Bruce Anderson, formerly political editor of The Spectator, in January 2013 as a potential future Leader of the Conservative Party.[1]
Jesse Norman was first elected as the Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire at the 2010 general election, having been selected as his party's candidate by open primary in December 2006. He chaired the Culture, Media and Sport Committee from 2015 to 2016. Following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister in July 2016, Norman was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Energy. Norman was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport after the UK/2017 General Election, before advancing to Minister of State at the same department in November 2018. In May 2019, Norman was appointed Paymaster General and Financial Secretary to the Treasury by May; he remained in the latter position under her successor, Boris Johnson, until he stepped down in September 2021.
In September 2022, he returned to government, having been appointed Minister of State for the Americas and the Overseas Territories by new Prime Minister Liz Truss, before moving back to the Department for Transport in October 2022.[2]
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