Who is the mp for letchworth

Heald is considered to be positioned on the centre left of the Conservative Party and backed Jeremy Hunt in the Conservative Party leadership election. He supported Remain in the EU referendum. In the past, he has been opposed to the reform of the House of Lords. Long before being elected to Parliament, he ran a Southwark youth football team with Clive Efford , who himself was to later become the Labour MP for Eltham.

Swipe to read more. Author: Politics. Heald was knighted in I was also the Junior Minister dealing with pension issues. In November , I was appointed Shadow Leader of the House a position I held until May , successfully pressing for better parliamentary education facilities and improved House of Commons Security.

I left the Government in the reshuffle. I also presented and won all my cases in the Court of Appeal for unduly lenient sentences and I have argued successfully in Government for tightening of the laws on Female Genital Mutilation. As I return to the backbenches, my focus will remain on representing everyone in North East Herts.

The Bill went through and is now an Act. North East Hertfordshire Conservatives. Picture: Nikki Powell - Credit: Archant. The MP for North East Herts has admitted he made a 'mistake' in supporting the government's bid for a standards reform in the wake of the Owen Paterson lobbying scandal. Sir Oliver Heald MP voted last week in a standards reform debate, when he and others voted in favour of reform and against the suspension of Owen Paterson, just hours before the North Shropshire representative quit as an MP.

On Wednesday, the Prime Minister encouraged Conservative MPs to pass an amendment - put forward by Dame Andrea Leadsom - in favour of ignoring a month-long Commons suspension for Mr Paterson, prompting corruption accusations. But despite a government U-turn with the promise of a new vote on the matter, Mr Paterson decided to resign from the House of Commons. Sir Oliver Heald has now said while he saw the amendment as an opportunity for reform, he made a mistake in voting for it while it was paired with the Paterson issue.

Sir Oliver told this newspaper: "The disciplinary procedure for MPs is old fashioned and not in line with modern practice in all the workplaces of Britain. I would never criticise John Major, who is an old friend and I was proud to be one of his ministers.

An emergency debate on parliamentary standards took place in the Commons on Tuesday evening.