David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC (born 18 January 1936) is a British Conservative politician, journalist, and economic consultant. His daughter Frances is married to the Conservative MP George Osborne.
Howell, who covered Energy and Transport under Margaret Thatcher, is, along with William Hague and Kenneth Clarke, one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979-1997 governments to still hold high office in the party, bei...
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David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC (born 18 January 1936) is a British Conservative politician, journalist, and economic consultant. His daughter Frances is married to the Conservative MP George Osborne.
Howell, who covered Energy and Transport under Margaret Thatcher, is, along with William Hague and Kenneth Clarke, one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979-1997 governments to still hold high office in the party, being its deputy leader in the House of Lords.
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.
Two years later he won the seat of Guildford in Surrey, a position he retained until retiring at the 1997 General Election.
Howell, a junior minister in...
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