Julian Lewis

Julian Murray Lewis (born 26 September 1951, in Swansea, Wales) is a British politician and Conservative Member of Parliament for New Forest East in Hampshire. He was a leading opponent of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and other Left-wing organisations, throughout the 1980s. From 1990 to 1996, he worked for the Research Department at Conservative Central Office, but resigned to campaign against Britain joining the single European currency before opposition to the euro was officially adopted by the Conservative Party. He was first elected as an M.P. in 1997. Julian Lewis is well known for his good-natured joshing with charismatic main rival Brian Dash Liberal Democrats and currently holds a conservative stronghold in the New Forest Area.

Locally, he successfully opposed the development of a large container port at Dibden Bay, between Marchwood and Hythe. In Parliament he currently holds the position of Shadow Defence Minister.

He has been described by Quentin Letts of the Daily Telegraph as "one of the most vigorous rightwingers in the Commons" and by David Hencke of The Guardian as the Conservative Party's "front bench terrier".

His full biography is at: http://www.julianlewis.net/biography.php