Derek Conway
Politician
1953 –
Who is Derek Conway?
Derek Leslie Conway TD is an English politician and television presenter. A member of the centre-right Conservative Party, Conway served as a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Old Bexley and Sidcup from 2001 to 2010. He is currently a presenter of Epilogue, a book review programme on Press TV, an English-language international television news channel funded by the Iranian government.
In January 2008 Conway announced that he would stand down at the next general election after a Commons standards committee found that he had employed his son Freddie, a full-time student at Newcastle University, as a political researcher using public funds, despite there being no record of his son doing any work at Westminster. As a result, Conservative Party leader David Cameron withdrew the whip from Conway, effectively expelling him from the Parliamentary Conservative group. He received considerable criticism from the press concerning the misuse of funds.
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- Born
- Feb 15, 1953
Newcastle upon Tyne - Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Northumbria University
- Newcastle University
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on July 23, 2013
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