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Julian’s Profile
in the ‘House Magazine’ – by Anne Perkins (click here) |
Julian was born on July 24th,
1953. He married Katharine Blagden and
now has three sons – William, John and Alexander. After contesting Berwick in
1983 Julian became Member of Parliament for Canterbury and Whitstable
following the General Election in 1987.
In October 2001 Julian Brazier was
appointed an Opposition whip. This position of responsibility prevents him
from serving on many of the committees he was formerly involved in. Julian is passionate about Defence
issues and in July 1997 was appointed to the Parliamentary Defence Select
Committee. From 1993 - 2001 he was Vice-Chairman of the Conservative
Backbench Defence Committee. Since taking up the Whips office has had to
resign this position, but still maintains a keen interest in all its work. Julian was the co-founder of the
cross party group on adoption and recently sponsored a private members bill
with Caroline Spelman MP. In April 2001 he was invited to sit on the Special
Select Committee of the Adoption and Childrens Bill. In Feruary 2001 he took up the position
of Deputy Chairman on the Listening to Churches campaign. From 1989 to 1990 Julian was the
Secretary of the Conservative Backbench Finance Committee. In 1990 he was
appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Gillian Shephard MP working at
the Treasury between 1990 and 1992 and at the Employment Department between
1992 and 1993. Julian stepped down to fight defence cuts. Julian has published six
pamphlets on Defence, through Bow Group, Centre for Policy Studies and
privately. During his time in
parliament Julian as also organised pressure groups against defence
cuts. Julian successfully fought campaigns
to protect service families' rights over sell-off of military housing
estates, and to upgrade reservist representation in the Ministry of Defence.
Julian believes passionately in building links with the rest of
the English-speaking world and commonwealth. He is utterly opposed to
European federalism and has spoken out against the single currency and
proposals for a European army.
Julian supports the selective
reintroduction of the death penalty and fights for the rights of victims of
crime, not criminals. In 1992 he was awarded his
Territorial Decoration and in 1996 won the Spectator Backbencher of the Year
Awards! The citation included: "When a minister hears that Julian
Brazier is taking an interest in a bill, he pours himself a stiff whisky and
sends for the parliamentary draftsman." Julian worked for nine years in
industry and for three years as an international management consultant. His
work has taken him to more than fifty countries. For thirteen years he was a Territorial Army officer, including
spending six years with the airborne forces. Julian was born in Dartford and was
educated at Wellington College in Berkshire. He continued his studies at
Brasenose College, Oxford, where he took a scholarship in Mathematics and
then at London Business School Since September 1999 Julian has
visited the Australian Land Warfare Centre in Canberra (at the launch of the
East Timor operation), Kosovo, Washington and NATO and EU Headquarters in
Brussels. In September 2000 he conducted his
4th lecture tour in the United States.
He has also done a lecture tour in Australia.
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