About Bill Newton Dunn
FAMILY
Born 3 October 1941 at Greywell, Hampshire, UK Father, Owen, career army officer : mother, Barbara, Married, 1970, Anna. One son Tom (Political editor of The Sun newspaper), one daughter Daisy (freelance TV director in Shanghai), two little grandsons. EDUCATION
Marlborough College, Wiltshire (scholar) Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge : MA in Natural Sciences INSEAD business school, Fontainebleau, France. MBA degree
BUSINESS CAREER
From university went into British Oxygen (a British chemical company). Moved to Fisons Fertilisers until 1979.
POLITICAL CAREER
1973 chair of Lambeth Vauxhall Conservatives 1974 February : fought Carmarthen in the General Election for the Conservative party 1974 October : fought Cardiff West in the General Election for the Conservative party 1979 June : elected, in first European elections, as MEP for Lincolnshire 1984 and 1989 : re-elected 1994 : lost in the European election 1999 : elected as Conservative MEP for the East Midlands region 2000 November : crossed floor to join the liberal Democrat party in disgust at the negativity and insularity of the Conservative party) 2004 and 2009 : elected as Liberal Democrat MEP for the East Midlands 2009 : elected by all MEPs to be one of their five Quaestors for two and a half years to ensure that the parliament is run for the members and not for the staff. Also a full member of the Development Committee and an Alternate member of the Environment Committee.
WRITING
POLITICAL PAMPHLETS (see the Adobe PDFs)
"Big Opportunities for Small Businesses" 1981 "The Democratic Deficit" in 1986 in which that phrase was first coined "Democratising the European Community" 1989 "Enlargement of the EU" 2000 "Europe Needs an FBI" 2005 BOOKS
"Greater In Europe" "Big Wing" (biography of Trafford Leigh-Mallory) "The Man Who was John Bull" (biography of Theodore Hook) "Memories of the first European Parliament 1979-84" "The Devil Knew Not (novel set in the parliament)"
GREEN-NESS
Strongly suspects that the climate of our planet is warming up due to human activities. Therefore strongly supports measures to cut back emissions of greenhouse gases.
Therefore Drives a Toyota Prius petrol-battery hybrid car. Rarely eats meat. Has had a water meter at his Navenby home for many years already.
FIRSTS
- Primary election. As chair of Vauxhall Conservatives, organised the first Primary election in 1973 to select a parliamentary candidate. (Praised by s second leader in The Times). - Candidate in the first (and all subsequent) European elections. - Democratic Deficit. Coined the phrase in a pamphlet in 1986. - Opposed Portillo's speech. Only delegate at Tory conference (picked out by TV cameras) who opposed Portillo's 'Who Dares Wins' speech in 1995 while the whole Tory cabinet and hall applauded. - Crossed floor to Liberal Democrats in 2000 - European FBI. Called in 2005 for creation of a new police force to fight crime across the EU's open borders.
