About Gerald Howarth
Sir James Gerald Douglas Howarth (born 12 September 1947) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aldershot from 1997 until 2017, having been the MP for Cannock and Burntwood from 1983 to 1992. He was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence as Minister for International Security Strategy from May 2010 to September 2012 and is chairman of Conservative Way Forward. In 2016, he joined the political advisory board of Leave Means Leave. He stood down at the 2017 general election. Howarth was first elected for the Cannock and Burntwood constituency in the Conservative landslide victory at the 1983 general election. He then became the Syndication Manager for the Standard Chartered Bank for the next two years, after which he was first elected to parliament.
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