Stephen Crabb (born January 20, 1973) British politician He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Preseli Pembrokeshire. January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics to the extent of holding or running for public office. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom. ... 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. ... Preseli Pembrokeshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Stephen Crabb was born in Inverness and brought up in council housing in Pembrokeshire, he was educated at the Tasker Milward School in Haverfordwest, he was awarded a Bachelor of Science at the University of Bristol and a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School. In 1996 he became a parliamentary affairs officer for the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, before working at the London Chamber of Commerce in 1998, he left them in 2002 as the policy and campaigns manager. He has been a business consultant since. He was elected as the chairman of the Southwark North and Bermondsey Conservative Association for two years in 1998 and in the same year was an election monitor in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Inverness (Inbhir Nis in Scottish Gaelic) is the only city in the Scottish Highlands. ... The council house is a form of public housing found in the United Kingdom. ... Pembrokeshire (Welsh: Sir Benfro) is a county in the south-west of Wales in the United Kingdom. ... Haverfordwest (Welsh: Hwlffordd) is a small market town in south-west Wales. ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... The University of Bristol is a university in Bristol in the United Kingdom. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... London Business School, in London (UK), established in 1965, is an international business school providing postgraduate degrees in management, including MBA (Master of Business Administration) courses, as well as non-degree courses for business executives. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The Palace of Westminster, known also as the Houses of Parliament, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their sittings. ... Popular use of the word youth refers to a person who is neither an adult nor a child, but somewhere in between, scientifically referred to as an adolescent and, in the United States, commonly referred to as a teen or teenager. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Chambers of commerce are business advocacy groups which are usually not associated with government. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A consultant (from the latin consultus meaning legal expert) is a professional who provides expert advice in a particular domain or area of expertise such as accountancy, technology, the law, human resources, marketing, medicine, finance, public affairs, communication, or more esoteric areas of knowledge, for example engineering of different kinds... North Southwark & Bermondsey is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons, created in 1997. ... Election monitoring is the observing of an election by non-partisan, usually international observers. ...

He unsuccessfully contested the House of Commons seat of Preseli Pembrokeshire at the 2001 General Election but fell 2,946 votes short of removing the sitting Labour MP Jackie Lawrence. He contested the seat again at the 2005 General Election against a new candidate, Sue Hayman, as Lawrence had chosen to retire. Stephen Crabb was elected as the Conservative MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire with a majority of just 607 votes and has remained the MP there since. He made his maiden speech on May 25, 2005.[1] The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and is now the dominant branch of Parliament. ... The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... Jacqueline Rita Lawrence (born 9 August 1948) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ... 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 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Since his election to parliament he has been a member of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee. A practising Christian, he is married to Béatrice and they have a son, Ioan, and a daughter, Isobelle, living in Haverfordwest. His constituency includes St David's, the smallest city in Britain. The Wales Office is a United Kingdom government department. ... A Select Committee of the British Parliament is a committee made up of a small number of members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues. ... As a noun, Christian is an appellation and moniker deriving from the appellation Christ, which many people associate exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth. ... St Davids (Welsh: TÅ·ddewi) is the smallest city in the United Kingdom, with a population of under 2,000 people. ...

External links

• Stephen Crabb MP official site
• Stephen Crabb MP biography at the site of the Conservative Party
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Stephen Crabb MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Stephen Crabb MP
• The Public Whip - Stephen Crabb MP voting record