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Bernard Jenkin (Bernard Christison Jenkin) was born on 9 April, 1959 in Wood Green, Middlesex, England, is a British Conservative politician. Discover Bernard Jenkin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

Popular As Bernard Christison Jenkin
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Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 9 April, 1959
Birthday 9 April
Birthplace Wood Green, Middlesex, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1959

Sir Bernard Christison Jenkin (born 9 April 1959) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Harwich and North Essex since 2010.

He also serves as chair of the Liaison Committee.

Jenkin was born on 9 April 1959 in Wood Green, Middlesex, to Patrick Jenkin, who subsequently became a Conservative MP and Cabinet minister, and later a life peer (as Baron Jenkin of Roding); and Monica Jenkin (née Graham).

He is a descendant of the scientist Fleeming Jenkin.

1982

He was educated at the fee-paying independent Highgate School, the voluntary aided William Ellis School (also in Highgate) and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a choral exhibition and gained a BA honours degree in English literature in 1982.

He was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1982.

1987

Declaring that he wanted to "illustrate that people in the south-east haven't forgotten about Scotland", Jenkin stood for election in Glasgow Central at the 1987 general election.

1989

He worked for Ford and the private equity company 3i as Manager of Legal & General Ventures from 1989 to 1992.

1992

He was first elected to represent Colchester North in 1992, and went on to represent North Essex before the Harwich and North Essex constituency was created.

From 1992 to 1995, he was an advisor to Legal & General Group plc.

At the 1992 general election, his 33rd birthday, Jenkin was elected as MP for Colchester North.

During John Major's government, Jenkin was one of the Maastricht Rebels who defied the party whip to oppose the Maastricht Treaty.

1997

When the Colchester North constituency was abolished for the 1997 general election, Jenkin was returned to the House of Commons for the newly-re-established North Essex constituency.

1998

William Hague appointed him Shadow Minister for Transport (1998–2001).

2001

He has also served as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (2001–2003) under Iain Duncan Smith and Shadow Regions Secretary (2003–2005) under Michael Howard.

He has also been Shadow Energy Minister.

2006

Jenkin was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, and had responsibility for candidates, until 7 November 2006, when this role was given to John Maples.

Jenkin's deputy chairman role came to an end when, during a shadow cabinet reshuffle, he was offered another frontbench position, which he declined, reportedly saying to David Cameron that only a return to the shadow cabinet would interest him.

In 2006, Jenkin used the racial descriptor "coloured" when referring to a British Asian Conservative A-List candidate, Ali Miraj.

Since May 2012, Jenkin has been consistently re-elected as an Executive of the 1922 Committee and remains an incumbent as of 6 July 2022.

2009

In May 2009, Jenkin was reported by The Daily Telegraph to have used £50,000 in expenses to pay his sister-in-law rent on the property he uses as his constituency home.

Jenkin said that he was just paying "an honest and reasonable rent" for the property.

2010

Jenkin was elected chairman of the Public Administration Select Committee in May 2010.

He is a longstanding critic of the European Union, believing that EU membership undermined the United Kingdom's national sovereignty, and he was one of the Maastricht Rebels during the premiership of John Major.

2012

Jenkin, who gained a reputation as a critic of the Coalition government, led calls to drop the House of Lords Reform Bill 2012.

2013

Jenkin voted in favour of same sex marriage in 2013 "as a matter of principle", whilst acknowledging the decision to hold the debate caused much "political unhappiness".

2014

In January 2014, Jenkin drafted a letter calling for Prime Minister Cameron to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the EU to give the House of Commons powers to veto EU legislation, which was ultimately signed by 95 MPs, and reportedly backed by another six.

Following the Scottish independence referendum and promises made to further devolve powers to Scotland, Jenkin called for the creation of an "English First Minister" and for departments responsible for policy that applied only in England to be accountable only to the English MPs.

2015

Following the 2015 general election, he was returned unopposed as the chairman of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee.

Jenkin was one of the most vocal supporters of the Eurosceptic pressure group Leave Means Leave.

2016

In the 2016 EU referendum he supported Brexit and from 2017 he was one of the most vocal supporters of the Eurosceptic pressure group Leave Means Leave.

2019

In September 2019, Jenkin criticised the House of Commons speaker John Bercow, stating that he was "irretrievably politicised and radicalised".

This comment came after Bercow made a speech warning Boris Johnson that "the only form of Brexit which we will have, whenever that might be, will be a Brexit that the House of Commons has explicitly endorsed".

In December 2019, Jenkin voted in favour of the withdrawal agreement.

Although a sceptic of lockdown, Jenkin supported the first COVID-19 tier regulations in England.

However, he urged the prime minister to put forward a white paper on the issue, setting out how the UK can deal with COVID-19 through treatments, social distancing and an improved NHS Test and Trace.

In 2021, he was a critic of Russia, and urged the government to take action in Ukraine.

2020

In June 2023 Boris Johnson called for Jenkin to resign, after his participation in the Commons Select Committee of Privileges which investigated whether Johnson had misled parliament, when it was reported by the Guido Fawkes website that Jenkin had attended an event on 8 December 2020 in parliament.

It was reportedly the date of his wife's birthday, with a "drinks party" held by Eleanor Laing, a Commons deputy speaker, in her office.

Since December 2023, he has been under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg, for "actions causing significant damage to the reputation of the House as a whole, or of its Members generally".