Julian Brazier - Action and Accomplishment

Julian Brazier was educated at Wellington College and won a scholarship in Mathematics to Oxford University. Julian worked for nine years with Charter Consolidated plc, (mining and industrial holding company), doing economic research, corporate finance and as secretary to the executive directors. Then three years with HP Maynard as an international management consultant. He served as an officer in the Territorial Army for thirteen years, six of them in Airborne forces. A practising Christian (R.C.), he is married to Katharine and they have three sons.

Political Career

1987 Elected to Parliament for Canterbury and Whitstable. Successful early campaigns ranged from woodland preservation to protecting intellectual property rights against government confiscation. As Secretary to the Parliamentary Maritime Group, Julian helped achieve a better tax status for the Merchant Navy.

1990 Mission to war-torn Beirut to support embattled free enclave.

1990 Appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Gillian Shephard, who was a Treasury Minister and then Secretary of State for Employment

1995 Supported John Redwood’s leadership challenge against John Major’s government.

1996 Organised British delegation to Anglo-Lebanese conference in Beruit on freedom and democracy, held in defiance of Lebanese government and attended by US and UK ambassadors.

1996 Won Spectator Parliamentary Backbencher of the Year Award, for campaigns defending marriage and children’s interests.

1996 Appointed President of Conservative Family Campaign.

1997 Re-elected despite huge swing in which half of Conservative seats were lost.

1997 Appointed to Defence Select Committee

1996/8 Visits to Washington, Moscow, Budapest, Sarajevo, Kosovo and Belfast.

1999 Co-author of ground-breaking joint UK/US book with five other writers, including Kate O'Beirne and Dr John Hillen "Not Fit to Fight".

2000 Founding Co-Chairman of All Party Adoption Group, established to get children languishing in state care adopted by a loving family.

2001 Appointed to Opposition Whip’s Office.

2002 Appointed a Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions.

2003 Appointed a Shadow Minister for the Home Office, with specific responsbility for drugs and alcohol abuse.

2003 Shadow Minister for Trade and International Development.

2005 Appointed Shadow Transport Minister with responsibility for aviation and shipping.

 

In Their Words

On Brazier’s first pamphlet on Defence "No Easy Answers": "A fine old-fashioned broadside into the unprotected underbelly of the Ministry of Defence".

          The London Evening Standard

On a pamphlet on social breakdown: "Julian Brazier rejects the libertarian ideas of the New Right and New Left and maintains that the self-help ethos of Disraeli and Burke offers the best hope…."

          The London Times

"When a minister hears that Julian Brazier is taking a close interest in a piece of legislation he sends for the parliamentary draughtsman and pours himself a stiff whisky."

          The Spectator Magazine

On the latest book co-authored by Julian Brazier, "Not Fit To Fight": "A must read for anyone interested in the politicization and degredation of Western armed forces"

          The Wall Street Journal