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Kenneth Harry Clarke, Baron Clarke of Nottingham, CH, PC, KC (born 2 July 1940) is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 1992 to 1993 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 to 1997.
May 21, 2024 · Kenneth Harry Clarke is a British Conservative politician who served as a cabinet official in the governments of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and David Cameron, including as Major’s chancellor of the Exchequer (1993–97) and as Cameron’s lord chancellor and secretary of state for justice.
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Profile of Kenneth Clarke, now Lord Clarke, former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, Father of the House of Commons, and Tory MP for Rushcliffe.
Clarke, who was called to the bar in 1963, tried in 1964 and 1966 to become MP for Mansfield. In June 1970, aged 29, he was elected as MP for Rushcliffe, ousting Labour’s Anthony Gardner.
Sep 5, 2019 · After 49 years as a Conservative MP, one of the so-called big beasts of politics Ken Clarke was effectively thrown out of the Tory Party. Alongside 20 fellow Conservatives, he rebelled against...
Kenneth Clarke KC served as Conservative MP for Rushcliffe from June 1970 to December 2019. Education. He was educated at Nottingham High School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge....
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Kenneth Harry Clarke, Baron Clarke of Nottingham, is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 1992 to 1993 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rushcliffe from 1970 to 2019 and was Father of the House of Commons between 2017 and 2019.