Chris Kelly (British politician)

Chris Kelly (British politician)
For other people named Christopher Kelly, see Christopher Kelly (disambiguation).
Chris Kelly MP
Member of Parliament
for Dudley South
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Ian Pearson
Majority 3,856 (10.1%)
Personal details
Born 1978 (age 32–33)
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Alma mater Oxford Brookes University, Imperial College Business School

Christopher Kelly (born 1978), known as Chris Kelly, is a Conservative Party politician in England. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Dudley South constituency in the West Midlands of England. He was elected to Parliament at the 2010 general election in the constituency represented for the previous 16 years by Labour's Ian Pearson. He is a member of the European Scrutiny Committee, an ambassador for the charity Heropreneurs.[1] and founder Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Family Business.[2].

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Education

Kelly was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School in the Black Country, West Midlands 1989-96, followed by Oxford Brookes University, where he was a History and Politics student 1996-1999, and Imperial College Business School in 2002/3 where he gained an MBA.

Career

After business school, Kelly worked as research assistant for Michael Howard in 2004/5 whilst the latter served as Leader of the Conservative Party.

Kelly was then employed in the family business, Keltruck Ltd - a Scania truck dealership based in West Bromwich - serving as marketing director from 2006 to 2009. He is now a paid non-executive director of his father's company.[3]

He was selected as the Conservative candidate for Dudley South in September 2007.

In 2010 Kelly attracted criticism for emailing all his fellow Conservative MPs from his Parliamentary email account urging them to give his sister a secretarial or managerial job. The incident occurred in the wake of new rules curbing MPs employment of family members with Labour MP Stephen Pound suggesting Kelly had abused his position.[4] [5]

References

  1. ^ Heropreneurs
  2. ^ All Party Parliamentary Group for Family Business
  3. ^ "The Register of Members' Financial Interests: Part 1". House of Commons. 6 September 2010. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/100927/kelly_chris.htm. 
  4. ^ Give my sister £30k job, new MP begs his fellow Tories | Mail Online
  5. ^ MP used Commons email account to seek job for his sister (From Stourbridge News)

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