Stephen Eyre

Stephen Eyre (born 17 October 1957) is a British Conservative politician, and a barrister.Cite news
url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article454298.ece
title=An election for the Pied Piper
author=Helen Rumbelow
work=The Times
date=2004-07-07
accessdate=2008-06-28
quote=Mr Eyre is the most socially different: a barrister and son of an MP]

He was educated at Solihull School and New College, Oxford and was a member of Solihull Borough Council from 1983 to 1995, and contested Birmingham Hodge Hill in the 1987 election.

In 1992 he stood in the Northern Ireland constituency of Strangford as part of an attempt to establish a Conservative presence in the province. He came fourth. He returned to the mainland in 2001 and came second in the Stourbridge constituency, 3,812 votes behind Debra Shipley.

He contested the Hodge Hill by-election, coming third with 3,543 votes.He is a member of The Freedom Association, Conservative Way Forward, and the Selsdon Group, and claims to have been a consistent opponent of a single European currency and of further European integration. He is also a member of Birmingham Diocesan Council of the Church of England.

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