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Derek George Henry Laud (born August 9, 1964, in Battersea, London) is a British political lobbyist and former Conservative parliamentary candidate, who achieved celebrity status during his run as a contestant in the sixth (2005) series of the UK Big Brother TV show. is the 221st day of the year (222nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ...
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Early career
Laud, who is openly gay, gained some notability as the only black member of the Conservative Monday Club, for whom he produced, in October 1984, a Policy Paper entitled The Law, Order and Race Relations, under the auspices of the Club's Immigration and Race Relations Committee. He subsequently became one of the researchers working for Conservative Members of Parliament in the mid-1980s. He unsuccessfully fought a seat in Wandsworth council's Graveney ward in May 1986, and won 937 votes. GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ...
The Conservative Monday Club (widely known as the Monday Club) is a British right-wing [1] pressure-group with its origins in the Conservative Party. ...
The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
The London Borough of Wandsworth is a London borough in South West London, England and forms part of Inner London. ...
Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...
During his career, Laud has contributed to speeches for several well-known Conservatives including, it is said, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Heseltine and even Alan Clark. He is briefly mentioned in both John Major's autobiography and Alan Clark's diaries. Moving on from Westminster, he was employed in the City of London in equity finance. He established a political lobbying company, Ludgate Laud, in the early 1990s. As a parliamentary lobbyist, Derek Laud was mentioned in the House of Commons by Labour MP Martin Linton in his maiden parliamentary speech.[1] Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC (born October 13, 1925), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. ...
Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC (born 21 March 1933) is a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. ...
Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 - 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative politician, historian and diarist. ...
Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a former British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the British Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. ...
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Lobbying is the practice of private advocacy with the goal of influencing a governing body, in order to ensure that an individuals or organizations point of view is represented in the government. ...
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The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ...
John Martin Linton known as Martin Linton (born 11 August 1944, Stockholm, Sweden) is a British politician, and has been Labour Member of Parliament for Battersea since 1997, having been reelected in 2001 and again (albeit narrowly) in 2005. ...
A maiden speech is the first speech given by a newly elected representative in such bodies as the House of Commons or the United States House of Representatives. ...
Parliamentary candidacy In the 1997 General Election, Laud was selected as Conservative candidate for the seat of Tottenham, a constituency with a very large non-white population (and which has been represented by black Labour MPs since 1987), but stepped down shortly before the election citing "business reasons". The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ...
Tottenham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ...
Margaret Thatcher 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. ...
Subsequent activities Derek Laud had long been an enthusiastic fox hunter, and in 1999, he became the Master of Foxhounds for the New Forest Hunt. A fox hunt Fox hunting is a form of hunting for foxes using a pack of scent hounds. ...
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Laud has a wide circle of friends in the Conservative Party. In 2001, he provided an alibi[2] for his friends Neil and Christine Hamilton when they were falsely accused by Nadine Milroy-Sloan of sexual assault.[3] (Ms Milroy-Sloan was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment.) Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
For alibi used in the sense of a legal defense, see the Wiktionary entry Alibi. ...
Mostyn Neil Hamilton (born March 9, 1949) is a former barrister, teacher and Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. ...
Christine Hamilton (born November 10, 1949) is an English television personality and author, and the wife of former MP Neil Hamilton. ...
Nadine Milroy-Sloan (born 1974) was convicted of two counts of perverting the course of justice in 2003 for falsely accusing Neil and Christine Hamilton, and a third person, of rape. ...
Big Brother Laud's background and audition videos for Big Brother showed him with his friend, British ex-boxer and celebrity, Chris Eubank. Professional boxing bout featuring Ricardo DomÃnguez (left, throwing a left uppercut) versus Rafael Ortiz Boxing, also referred to as pugilism and The Sweet Science, is a combat sport of English origin in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series of one...
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Laud was the tenth person to be evicted from the Big Brother House after losing in a head-to-head with Eugene Sully.
After Big Brother Laud partnered Edwina Currie on a charity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on 17 September 2005. Edwina Currie Edwina Currie Jones née Cohen, (born 13 October 1946) is a former British Member of Parliament. ...
In the United Kingdom, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers a maximum cash prize of one million pounds for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. ...
During the Conservative Party conference in October 2005, he commented that most politicians (with one exception) would not have succeed on "Big Brother", saying "Good looks are very important and David Cameron is very attractive."[4] Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom, positions he has occupied since December 2005. ...
Laud appeared on BBC's Question Time which was held in Newbury, Berkshire in November 2005. Derek's political views, which some characterise as populist right-wing, tended to polarize people for or against him. Laud said, speaking in favour of longer pub opening hours: 'I think as adults - and responsible adults at that - we should be able to determine that (when to drink) for ourselves. ... I think that essentially what we've got to be doing here is to encourage people to take responsibilities for themselves and get the state out of our private lives.' About education in Britain he said: '44,000 people this year at 16 years old left school without a single GCSE - that is a national disaster. So where is Blair's radicalism? He will fall short of his place in history if he doesn't live up to the radicalism of Asquith in 1908 and Clement Atlee in 1945 and Thatcher in 1979 if he doesn't get this right. He has to take on these people who've got this taboo about the private sector having any part in education, and i deplore it.' Question Time is a topical debate television programme in the United Kingdom, based on Any Questions?. It is currently shown on BBC One at 22:35 on Thursdays, and typically features politicians from the three major political parties and other public figures who answer questions put to them by the...
Graham Norton, on The Bigger Picture, asked his audience to take a good look at Mr Laud "because you'll probably never meet another black gay Tory." This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Recently, he also appeared on Webcameron declaring that he would like to stand for election in the up coming general election.
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August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. ...
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