Greg Knight

Infobox MP
honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable
name = Greg Knight
honorific-suffix = MP


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constituency_MP2 = East Yorkshire
parliament2 =
majority2 = 6,283 (13.4%)
predecessor2 = John Townend
successor2 =
term_start2 = 7 June 2001
term_end2 =
constituency_MP3 = Derby North
parliament3 =
majority3 =
predecessor3 = Philip Whitehead
successor3 = Robert Laxton
term_start3 = 9 June 1983
term_end3 = 1 May 1997
birth_date = Birth date and age|1949|4|4|df=yes
birth_place = Blaby, Leicestershire
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nationality = British
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party = Conservative
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profession = Solicitor
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website = [http://www.gregknight.com/ www.gregknight.com]
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Gregory "Greg" Knight (born 4 April 1949) is a British politician, author and solicitor. He is Member of Parliament for East Yorkshire for the Conservative Party.

Education and professional life

Born in Blaby, in the East Midlands, he was educated at Alderman Newton’s Grammar School Leicester and the College of Law Guildford qualifying as a solicitor (attorney) in 1973.

Political career

He was MP for Derby North from 1983 until the 1997 election, and successfully contested the East Yorkshire seat in the 2001 election. He had been deputy Chief Whip under John Major between 1993 and 1996 and was Minister of State for Industry at the Department for Trade and Industry from 1996 until the Conservative defeat at the 1997 election. He himself lost his seat in 1997 but he later returned to the House of Commons in 2001 after winning East Yorkshire.

He served under Michael Howard as a shadow minister for Environment and Transport until 2005 when he became Chairman of the House of Commons Procedure Committee. He is on three other House of Commons Select Committees: the Liaison Committee, Administration Committee and the Modernisation of the House Committee.

As a backbencher he succeeded in amending the UK's licensing law by doubling UK ‘drinking up time’ on licensed premises from ten to twenty minutes.

He is in favour of bringing back capital punishment and spoke out against the Apartheid government of South Africa during the 1980s.

Personal life

He is a classic car enthusiast and owns a number of classic cars as well as being Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Historic Vehicles Group.

He plays the drums and is a founder member of MP4http://mp4theband.co.uk] - the world's only Parliamentary rock group. The others are Kevin Brennan MP, Ian Cawsey MP and Pete Wishart MP. He has backed several other artists on the drums in live shows including George McCrae “Rock your Baby” and Fergal Sharkey “A Good Heart”.

He has written five books, mostly on the subject of political quips and insults.

He was made a Privy Councillor in 1995, becoming "The Right Honourable".

Publications

*"Westminster Words" (1988), published by Buchan and Enright
*"Honourable Insults" (1990), published by Robson Books
*"Parliamentary Sauce" (1993), published by Robson Books
*"Right Honourable Insults" (1998), published by Robson Books
*"Naughty Graffiti" (2005), published by Robson Books

References

External links

[http://www.gregknight.com gregknight.com]