- Gerry Malone
Peter Gerald Malone, known as Gerry Malone, (born
21 July 1950 ) is a British Conservative politician who was an MP 1983-1987 and 1992-1997.He began his parliamentary career as the unsuccessful Conservative candidate in the
Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1982 , losing the traditionally Conservative seat toRoy Jenkins of the SDP.He was then elected as MP for Aberdeen South in 1983, under the Thatcher government, but lost the seat to Frank Doran of Labour at the 1987 General Election.
He re-entered parliament in 1992, representing the 'safe' Conservative seat of Winchester. He was appointed to
Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1994 whenVirginia Bottomley was theSecretary of State .Malone unexpectedly lost his Winchester seat at the General Election of 1997 by two votes, to the Liberal Democrat
Mark Oaten . Malone challenged the result in the high court, which was declared void, causing a by-election. However Malone was punished by the electorate for forcing what manywho? saw as an unnecessary contest, trailing 21,566 votes behind Oaten in the resulting by-election.Gerry Malone was chairman of Regent-GM, one of Britain’s biggest suppliers of
generic drugs to theNational Health Service (NHS) and asubsidiary ofNadhmi Auchi 'sGeneral Mediterranean Holdings .Currently he is a Non Executive Chairman of
Ultrasis who specialise in computerisedcognitive behavioural therapy software.
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