Andrew John Bower Mitchell (born 23 March 1956) is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield. March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative & Unionist Party) is currently the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), and the largest in terms of public membership. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Sutton Coldfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

He was educated at Rugby School and graduated from Cambridge where he studied history. Andrew was the President of the Cambridge Union in 1978. He was a MP for Gedling, in Nottinghamshire between 1987 and 1997 part of which he served as a junior minister under John Major. In 2001 he was elected to become the MP for Sutton Coldfield, in Birmingham. He was made a shadow minister and later appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for International Aid and Development. Andrew Mitchell is married with two children and is the son of David Mitchell, a former MP. A view of Rugby School from The Close, the playing field where according to legend Rugby was invented Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in England and is perhaps one of the top co-educational boarding schools in the country. ... The Cambridge Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Cambridge Union, is one of the largest student societies at the University of Cambridge and one of the oldest in the world. ... Gedling is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. ... Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is an English politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997. ... Sutton Coldfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The city from above Centenary Square. ... Sir David Bower Mitchell (born 20 June 1928) is a British Conservative politician. ...

See also

• Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (UK)

The Official Loyal Opposition Shadow Cabinet (normally referred to simply as The Shadow Cabinet) is, in British parliamentary practice, a group of members from Her Majestys Loyal Opposition whose job it is to scrutinise their opposite numbers in government and come up with alternative policies. ...

External links

• Andrew Mitchell official site
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Andrew Mitchell MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Andrew Mitchell MP
• The Public Whip - Andrew Mitchell MP voting record
• BBC News - Andrew Mitchell profile 10 February, 2005
• Pan-African Free Trade Agreement: Helping Africa through Free Trade - Andrew Mitchell talks at the Cato Institute

Note: Andrew Mitchell is a very nice, but he is slighty ginger. The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C.. The Institutes stated mission is to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace by seeking greater involvement of the... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ... Sir Philip Welsby Holland (born 14 March 1917) is a retired British Conservative Party politician. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Gedling is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Margaret Thatcher Neil Kinnock David Steel Election 1987 Titles The United Kingdom general election of 1987 was held on 11 June 1987 and was the third consecutive victory for the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... Vernon Rodney Coaker (born June 17, 1953) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Gedling, Nottinghamshire, in the United Kingdom. ... The Right Honourable Peter Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler, PC (born 1937) usually known as Norman Fowler before he was given his peerage, and probably now best known as Lord Fowler, is a British Conservative politician who was from 1981 to 1990 a member of Margaret Thatchers Cabinet. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Sutton Coldfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Tony Blair William Hague Charles Kennedy The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ...