Robert Hughes (Conservative politician)

For other people named Robert Hughes, see Robert Hughes (disambiguation).

Robert Gurth Hughes (born 14 July 1951) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was a Government Minister in the 1990s.

Parliamentary career

Hughes was unsuccessful as a candidate for Stepney and Poplar in the 1979 general election. In 1980 Hughes was elected to the Greater London Council representing Croydon Central, serving until 1986. He was the Conservative candidate in the 1983 Bermondsey by-election[1] and contested that constituency's successor seat of Southwark and Bermondsey at the 1983 general election.

In 1987 he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow West. He successfully defended his seat at the 1992 election but at the 1997 election his 18,000 majority swung to a Labour majority of 1,240 votes for Gareth Thomas.[2] Hughes' Parliamentary Aide in the Commons until May 1997 was fellow Harrow politician, Councillor Mark Versallion.[3]

He served as a Government Whip in 1993 when the Maastricht bill went through the House, and was promoted to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Office of Public Service and Science in the Cabinet Office in 1994 with responsibility for the Science Research Councils and the Medical Research Council.

On 6 March 1995, Hughes resigned as Minister responsible for the Citizen's Charter over an affair with a constituency worker who had come to him for help from an abusive relationship. Hughes confessed the affair and resigned when he believed that the liaison was about to be exposed in a Sunday newspaper.[4][5]

He opposed the Conservative party line in 1996 by supporting a total ban on handguns in the wake of the Dunblane Massacre.[6][7][8] Robert Hughes is a keen supporter of Land value tax to eliminate income and sales taxes.

Post-political career

Upon leaving the Commons he became General Secretary and then Executive Director of the optical trade body, the Federation of Ophthalmic & Dispensing Opticians. He became the Chief Executive of the Association of Optometrists (AOP) in 2004. In 2011 he left AOP to become the Chief Executive of the Surrey Association for Visual Impairment. As of 2017 he is now the Chairman of the Guildford Conservative Association.

In May 2021 he was elected as a Conservative county councillor for Shere in the Surrey County Council election.[9]

References

  1. ^ "British Democracy in Action: Remembering the 1983 Bermondsey By-election (Including an article by Peter Tatchell)". 17 December 2019.
  2. ^ "BBC NEWS | VOTE 2001 | RESULTS & CONSTITUENCIES | Harrow West". news.bbc.co.uk.
  3. ^ http://www.conservatives.com/People/Prospective_Parliamentary_Candidates/Versallion_Mark.aspx[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ Epstein, Debbie; Johnson, Richard (1998). Schooling Sexualities. Buckhingham: Open University Press. pp. 75–77. ISBN 0335230997.
  5. ^ "Minister admits affair and quits. Major pre-empts scandal by accepting resignation". The Sunday Herald. 5 March 1995.
  6. ^ http://www.gun-control-network.org/EP02.htm
  7. ^ Bennetto, Jason (2 November 1996). "Unionists set to back Tories on handguns". The Independent.
  8. ^ Brown, Colin (15 October 1996). "Handgun ban in sight". The Independent.
  9. ^ "Guildford Dragon NEWS | The Guildford Dragon". Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Harrow West
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