Laurence Anthony Robertson (born 29 March 1958, Bolton, Lancashire) is a British politician. He has been Conservative Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire since 1997. In May 2005, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland, a controversial choice given his opposition to the Good Friday Agreement.
His father was a miner, mailman, delivery man then a milkman. His mother was an office worker in Manchester. He was educated ...
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Laurence Anthony Robertson (born 29 March 1958, Bolton, Lancashire) is a British politician. He has been Conservative Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire since 1997. In May 2005, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland, a controversial choice given his opposition to the Good Friday Agreement.
His father was a miner, mailman, delivery man then a milkman. His mother was an office worker in Manchester. He was educated at St James's C.E. Secondary School (then a secondary modern school) on Lucas Road; Farnworth Grammar School on Manchester Road in Farnworth and Bolton Institute of Higher Education (now the University of Bolton), gaining a diploma in Management Services. He working life has including him work as a charity fund-raising (where he claims to have raised over £1 million), public relations consultant, company director, factory owner from 1987-8, industrial management consultant from 1983-9, and work study engineer from 1977-83.
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