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Paul Kenneth Burstow (born May 13, 1962), British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam. Paul Burstow used with permission courtesey of the Liberal Democrats - see Wikipedia:Pictures from libdems. ... May 13 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (134th in leap years). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Sutton and Cheam is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Paul Burstow was born in Carshalton the son of a tailor, and he was educated at the Glastonbury High School for Boys in Carshalton; Carshalton College of Further Education; and the South Bank Polytechnic, where he obtained a degree in business studies. He started his career as a buying assistant with Allied Shoe Repairs in 1985. He was elected as a councillor to the Sutton Borough Council in 1985, and was its deputy leader 1994–1997, he remained a councillor for the Rosehill Ward in Sutton until 2002, after his election to parliament. Also in 1986 he worked briefly in print sales with KallKwik Printers, before becoming a research assistant at the London Borough of Hounslow in 1987. He contested Sutton and Cheam at the 1992 General Election where he was defeated by the Conservative Lady Olga Maitland but achieved one of the largest swings to the Liberal Democrats in London at that election. In 1988 he joined the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors as a campaigns officer, becoming its political secretary in 1996, where he remained until becoming an MP the following year. Carshalton is a suburb of London, part of the London Borough of Sutton, located 10 miles (16. ... A tailor attending to a customer in Hong Kong. ... This article is about the place. ... London South Bank University is a central London university with around 20,000 students and 1,700 staff in the London Borough of Southwark. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The London Borough of Sutton is a London borough in outer southwest London. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, in London, England is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) meet to conduct their business. ... The London Borough of Hounslow is a London borough in West London, England. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Paul Burstow contested Sutton and Cheam and Lady Olga Maitland again at the 1997 General Election and was duly elected as its Liberal Democrat MP at the same time many other south west London seats were gained by the Liberal Democrats. He was elected with a majority of 2,097, he has remained as the MP for Sutton and Cheam since. He made his maiden speech on May 16, 1997, speaking passionately about the needs of the blind and the disabled people [1]. On his election, Burstow immediately became a spokesman on the Environment under Paddy Ashdown. He became the spokesman on Social Security in 1999 on the election of Charles Kennedy as the Leader of the Liberal Democrats. After the 2001 General Election he became the Health spokesman. He has been the parliamentary ambassador to the NSPCC since 2001. He was promoted to the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Secretary of State for Health in 2003. He stepped down from the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet following the 2005 General Election, but was appointed as the spokesman on London. On March 22, 2006, Liberal Democrats MPs elected him their Chief Whip.[2] The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... 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. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or psychological factors. ... Look up disability in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG KBE PC (born 27 February 1941), commonly known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician native of British India. ... The Department of Social Security (DSS) was until 2001 a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Rt. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in 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. ... Many governments, both national and more local, have a Department of Health. This article is about the British one. ... The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is a UK charity working in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Shadow Cabinet (also called the Shadow Front Bench) is a senior group of opposition spokespeople in the Westminster system of government who together under the leadership of the Leader of the Opposition (or the leader of other smaller opposition parties) form an alternative cabinet to the governments, whose... Minister of Health redirects here. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The Chief Whip is a political office in some legislatures assigned to an elected member whose task is to administer the whipping system that ensures that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ...

Paul Burstow has a reputation for his work with and for older people. In 2003 The Guardian[3] described Mr Burstow as: "One of the most knowledgeable and effective politicians on older people's issues". He was voted by MPs as older people's champion in the epolitix Charity Champion awards [4] in December 2005. The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...

Paul Burstow introduced the Care of Older and Incapacitated People (Human Rights) Bill in January 2006. It provides proposals to increase the protection of vulnerable adults from abuse and neglect.

He married Mary Everdell Kemm in 1995 and they have a son and two daughters. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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