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Simon Burns was educated at Christ the King School, Accra, Ghana; Stamford School; and Worcester College, Oxford, where he obtained a Third Class BA Honours Degree in Modern History. He also has an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from University of East Anglia. The skyline Location of Accra Labadi Beach Downtown Accra Accra, population 1,970,400 (2005), is the capital of Ghana. ... Stamford School is an English public school in the market town of Stamford, Lincolnshire. ... Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a campus university located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, founded as part of the British Governments New Universities programme in the 1960s. ...

Burns is interested in American Politics, collecting political books, swimming and tennis. Swimming is a technique that humans, and other animals, use to move through water using only movements of the body. ... A tennis net Tennis is a sport played between either two players (Singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a ball, a hollow rubber ball covered in felt, over a net into the opponents court. ...

Political experience

From 1975 to 1980, Burns was political adviser to the Rt Hon Sally Oppenheim. From 1980–83 he was a journalist and company director of What To Buy for Business magazine, and from 1983–87 was on the Policy Executive of the Institute of Directors. He has been active in politics since 1970, when he was a founder member of the Rutland and Stamford Young Conservatives, and founder and Chairman of the Stamford School CPC. Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes, PC (born July 26, 1930) is a UK Conservative party politician. ... The Institute of Directors (IoD) is a UK based organisation, incorporated by royal charter in 1903 to support, represent and set standards for company directors. ...

In 1972, he worked for Senator George McGovern against Richard Nixon in his presidential election bid of that year. From 1973–75, he was a committee member, Political Action Officer and Secretary of Oxford University Conservative Association, and a member of the Oxford Union. From 1977–81, he was Treasurer, Southfields Ward, and a member of the Treasurer's and Executive Council, Putney Conservative Association. In 1983, he was Conservative candidate in Alyn and Deeside (North Wales) when he reduced Labour's majority from 6,800 to 1,368. In 1986 he was Chairman, Avonmore Ward, Fulham Conservative Association. George McGovern Dr. George Stanley McGovern (born July 19, 1922) was a United States Congressman, Senator, and Democratic presidential candidate, losing the 1972 presidential election to incumbent Richard Nixon. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... The Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) is a student political organization founded in 1924 whose members are drawn from Oxford University. ... Oxford Union The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Oxford Union, is a private debating society in the city of Oxford, whose membership is drawn primarily but not exclusively from the University of Oxford. ... Alyn and Deeside is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Parliamentary experience

Burns was Member of Parliament for Chelmsford from June 1987 to March 1997 and was elected Member of Parliament for West Chelmsford in May 1997. 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. ... Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency) can refer to West Chelmsford East Chelmsford, part of Maldon and East Chelmsford constituency This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ... West Chelmsford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Burns has been Parliamentary Private Secretary to Timothy Eggar MP, and the Rt Hon Gillian Shephard MP, at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food until July 1994. He has also been Assistant Government Whip (1994–95), Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury (1995–96), and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health (1996–97). A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a junior role given to British Government MPs to act as the Parliamentary contact of senior Ministers. ... Gillian Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold, PC (born January 22, 1940) is an British Conservative politician; she was the Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk, and a former Secretary of State. ...

In June 1997, he was appointed Opposition Front Bench Spokesman for Social Security, a position he held until August 1998 when he was appointed Front Bench Spokesman for Environment, Housing and Planning, until June 1999. He was elected a member of the executive at the 1922 Committee in July 1999 and Treasurer of the 1922 Committee in November 1999. He was a member of the House of Commons Health Select Committee from 1999 to 2005.

In September 2001, Burns was appointed Shadow Health Minister and was reappointed to this position in May 2005.

Aside from his Shadow Ministerial duties, one of his foremost achievements in Parliament since 1997 was successfully piloting through Parliament his Private Member’s Bill — the Football (Offences and Disorder) Act 1999 — to tighten up the law on football hooligans, and pressuring the Government to strengthen legislation further in 2000 by giving the courts the power to withdraw hooligans’ passports and prevent them from causing trouble abroad.

Election result: May 2005

In the May 2005 General Election, Simon Burns gained 22,946 votes (44.9%), beating the three other candidates by a majority of 9,620 (18.8%). The number of votes cast for Burns in 2005 was an increase of 2.4% from the previous General Election in 2001. His majority also increased from 6,261 to 9,620. Turnout was 61.9%, down from 62.5% in 2001. The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ...

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Contact information

• Email: wccca@tory.org
• Telephone: 01245 352872
• Fax: 01245 344515
• Website: see below
• Postal Address: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.

External links

• [1] Simon Burns' official website
• [2] West Chelmsford Conservatives local party website
• [3] 2005 Election Result: West Chelmsford (Source: BBC Election 2005)
• [4] Previous General Election Results (Source: Chelmsford Borough Council)
• [5] Guardian Unlimited Politics — Ask Aristotle: Simon Burns MP

• [6] TheyWorkForYou.com — Simon Burns MP