Nick Hawkins
Politician
1957 –
Who is Nick Hawkins?
Nicholas John "Nick" Hawkins is a lawyer and politician from the United Kingdom. He was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament from 1992-2005.
Hawkins was educated at Bedford Modern School and Lincoln College, Oxford, and called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1979.
Hawkins became a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Blackpool South in 1992. Prior to the 1997 general election, with polls predicting that the Conservatives had no chance of retaining the Blackpool South seat, Hawkins applied and was selected to contest the newly created constituency of Surrey Heath, which was predicted to be one of the safest Conservative seats in the country. He duly won the seat with a majority 16,287, the second-largest Conservative majority of in the country that year. Hawkins was re-elected in 2001 with a reduced majority of 10,819.
Hawkins served in Prime Minister John Major's government in 1995-97, first at the Ministry of Defence and then at the then Department of National Heritage. In opposition he was appointed and promoted in a series of shadow ministerial jobs by four different Conservative Party leaders. Among other roles, he was Shadow Solicitor-General in 2003, a Shadow Home Office Minister on national security issues and drugs policy, Shadow Legal and Constitutional Affairs Minister, and Shadow spokesman on gambling twice.
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- Born
- Mar 27, 1957
United Kingdom - Spouses
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Lincoln College, Oxford
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on July 23, 2013
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