James Cran

Who is James Cran?

James Douglas Cran is a British former Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Beverley and for Beverley and Holderness in northern England. "He was a Highland Scots Presbyterian, neat, shy, puritanical, ambitious, perfectionist, very decent, impatient. A flinty Aberdonian Eurosceptic and Ulster Unionist whose quirkiness makes him difficult to predict." He stepped down at the 2005 general election. With the continued decline in the relevance and effectiveness of Parliament as a check on Government, he decided to retire and resultantly his attendance record fell and he was dubbed by the media as "The Invisible Cran". He concentrated on attending the Defence Select Committee and frequently chairing Bill and other Committees in Parliament as a member of the Chairman of Ways and Means Panel.