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Harriet Jones MP
In six words (or less):[]
"Just a faithful back-bencher."
Basics:[]
- Age: 55
- Married to Barry Grant a businessman from Liverpool.
Contact:[]
- Blog: Torchwoodforever.wordpress.com
- Twitter: HarJonesLocker
- Email: hjones@parliament.uk
- Mobile phone:
- Constituency office:93 Castle Street Flydale FL1 3AJ
- Tel: 01822 731 882
- Fax: 01822 731885
Family:[]
Born in Scarborough Yorkshire. Mother an actress and dancer, father a businessman. Two grown-up children Alice (25) and Robert(28). Previously married to marketing consultant Max Farnham (divorced 2004). thumb|300px|right|Harriet on TV
Work and education:[]
- 1997 - present: MP for Flydale North
- Non-Executive Director Torchwood (a consultancy)
- 1989 - 1997 Chemistry teacher, Grange Hill Comprehensive School, East London.
- 1986 - 1988 Masters in Organic Chemistry, UMIST, Manchester
- 1985 - gap year working for OXFAM in Uganda
- 1981 - 1983 BSc Hons Chemistry University of Nottingham
Hobbies:[]
Watching TV, Reading detective novels and science fiction, Ran the 1991 London Marathon in support of Breakthrough Breast Cancer in 5h10m32s. Fine wines and red meat.
Political Beliefs:[]
Describes herself as being on "the green wing of the conservative liberal party".
Positions:[]
- Global:
- Believes that global warming will be solved by market forces and carbon taxing
- International:
- On the record as being against the invasion of Iraq
- European:
- Generally against a federal Europe, but pro a free market in goods and services
- runs a surgery jointly with Janet Croaker the MEP in Polish and Latvian
- National:
- For small taxes, cutting red tape for small and medium sized businesses
- For school vouchers
- pro pivatising the NHS
- Against new Nuclear Power plants
- Local:
- Against the A45 by-pass
- Against closing the Dr Who A&E
- For increased spending on Libraries and broadband for schools
- Ethical/moral:
- Pro death penalty for terrorists
- wants to legalise class A drugs
- anti-gay marriage (despite her son being a well known gay rights campaigner)
Memberships:[]
- National Trust (1986 - present)
- RSPB (1986 - present)
- Greenpeace (1986 - present)
Home:[]
Holidays:[]
- South of France
- Italy
- Skiing in Austria every winter
Music:[]
(listen to her Desert Island Disks on BBC Radio 17 March 2002:
- 1. Suite for Cello, op 72 - Performer: Rostropovich
- 2. Rock Around The Clock - Performer: Bill Haley and His Comets
- 3. At the Balalaika - Performer: Ilona Massey
- 4. Don't Fence Me In - Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters
- 5. Cello Suite No 6 in D major - Bach
- 6. An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise Performer - Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
- 7. String Quartet No 13 in B flat - The Lindsay String Quartet
- 8. John Brown's Body - The Wayfarers Trio
Last downloaded to iPod:
- Arctic Monkeys
Transport:[]
- 1) Range Rover (5 years old, 75,000 miles, dented)
- 2) Volkswagen Eos, canary yellow (new)
- 3) Mountain Bike
Quotes:[]
- 1. Pennies don’t fall from heaven - they have to be earned here on earth.
- 2. No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
- 3. Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.
- 4. My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.
- 5. Defeat? I do not recognise the meaning of the word.