Chris Heaton-Harris
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| Born | 28 November 1967 | |||||||||||
| Nationality | UK | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Tiffin School • Wolverhampton Polytechnic | |||||||||||
Chief Whip of the Conservative Party identified by Andrew Bridgen as the one who mocked him for speaking out against the Covid jab deaths, and went on to tell him he would be dead soon from cancer as he was vaccinated.
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Christopher Heaton-Harris is a British former politician who was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from September 2022 to July 2024, and Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from February to September 2022.
As Chief Whip, he was the man identified by Andrew Bridgen who mocked him in February 2023 for speaking out against the Covid jab deaths, and went on to tell him he would be dead soon from cancer as he was vaccinated.[1][2]
Education
Born in Epsom, Heaton-Harris attended Tiffin School. He went on to study at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, before working in his family business.
Career
He was elected to the European Parliament as MEP for the East Midlands in 1999, and was the Chief Whip of the Conservatives there from 2001 to 2004. He was reelected in the 2004 election before standing down in 2009. After two unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the House of Commons, Heaton-Harris was elected as MP for Daventry in the 2010 general election. He was reelected in both the 2015 and 2017 general election. On the backbenches, he was Chair of the European Research Group from 2010 to 2016.[3]
Heaton-Harris joined the government frontbench in 2017 under Prime Minister Theresa May as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, before becoming Comptroller of the Household Deputy Leader of the House of Commons from January to July 2018. Under May, he later was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from 2018 to 2019. Under Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he was Minister of State for Transport from 2019 to 2021 and as Minister of State for Europe from 2021 to 2022. In February 2022, he was appointed to the Cabinet as Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, and was sworn in as a privy counsellor. After Liz Truss became Prime Minister, Heaton-Harris was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; an office he continued in under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. After sitting in parliament for 14 years, Heaton-Harris stood down at the 2024 general election.[3]
Junkets
Heaton-Harris accepted tickets for himself and his family to attend four events at the London 2012 Olympics, and the closing ceremony, as a gift from Coca-Cola. The value of the gifts (£11,750) was the highest amount received by any MP. He declared them in the Register of Members' Interests.[4] Heaton-Harris was one of several MPs, including Labour's shadow whip Mark Tami, who received tickets worth £1,961 to the England v Germany game at the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship from Power Leisure Bookmakers.[5]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| UK/Parliament/Voted YES to vaccine passports in 2021 | 4 December 2021 | 4 December 2021 | British House of Commons | These members of the UK Parliament voted YES to the introduction of a "vaccine" passport in 2021 |
References
- ↑ https://twitter.com/OlooneyJohn/status/1898458060118528210
- ↑ https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1898352840344789003#m
- ↑ Jump up to: a b https://www.gov.uk/government/people/chris-heaton-harris
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/greenpolitics/9677551/Chris-Heaton-Harris-windfarm-opponent-and-Eurosceptic.html
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-57848269
