David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford

Vorlage:Other persons Vorlage:Infobox officeholder David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC (born 18 January 1936), is a British Conservative politician, journalist, and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher, Howell is now a Minister of State in the Foreign Office. Along with William Hague, Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke, he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979-1997 governments who still holds high office in the party, being its deputy leader in the House of Lords. His daughter, Frances, is married to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Conservative MP George Osborne.

Early life

Educated at Eton he then served in the 2nd Btn Coldstream Guards between 1954-56 prior to going up to King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1959. He worked in HM Treasury from 1959–60 and then spent five years as a journalist on The Daily Telegraph before he unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Dudley in the 1964 general election.

Member of Parliament

Two years later he won the seat of Guildford in Surrey, a position he retained until retiring at the 1997 general election, at which time he was made a life peer as Baron Howell of Guildford, of Penton Mewsey in the County of Hampshire.

Howell, a junior minister in the Edward Heath Government (1970–1974), served as the Parliamentary Secretary, and played a key role in the establishment of the Central Policy Review Staff, a "central capability" policy unit based in the Cabinet Office.

When Margaret Thatcher was elected in 1979, she made Howell her first Secretary of State for Energy and then moved him to Transport in the reshuffle of September 1981. In 1987 he became chairman of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In May 2010, Howell was appointed a Minister of State in the Foreign Office in David Cameron's government, under William Hague as Foreign Secretary.

Writing

He wrote the book The Edge of Now: new questions for democracy in the network age which was published in 2000.

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