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Gregory Leonard George Barker (born 8 March 1966) is a British politician who currently serves as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle and Shadow Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
[edit] Early lifeBorn in Sussex, he was educated at Upper Beeding Primary School, Steyning Grammar School, Lancing College, Royal Holloway, University of London, gaining a BA (Hons) in Modern History and Politics, and the London Business School. He was a researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies in 1987, before joining Gerard Vivian Gray as an Equity Analyst in 1988. In 1990, he became the Director for International Pacific Securities. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Hammersmith Conservative Association in 1993. From 1998, he was a Director of Daric pls, an advertising company. Barker also developed strong links to the Russian oil companies, being Head of Communications at the Anglo Siberian Oil Company from 1998-2000 and also worked in Russia for the Sibneft Oil Group, owned by Roman Abramovich. [edit] Parliamentary careerBarker was at first unsuccessful in his attempts at a parliamentary career when he contested the very safe Labour seat of Eccles, where he was roundly defeated by Ian Stewart. Barker then became the Deputy Chairman of the Tooting Conservative Association and an advisor to Conservative MP David Willetts. In 2001, Barker became the Member for Bexhill and Battle after the retirement of the sitting Conservative MP, Charles Wardle. Barker's nomination by the Conservative Party was hotly debated when sitting M.P. and former Home Office Minister Charles Wardle accused Barker of being disingenuous about his business career and formally requesting Conservative Party Leader Iain Duncan Smith investigate possible links between Barker and the infamous Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky. [1]. Wardle went on to support Nigel Farage (now the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party), but Barker won the safe seat by over 10,500 votes from Stephen Hardy of the Liberal Democrats.Close to Conservative leader David Cameron, as Shadow Environment Secretary Barker accompanied Cameron on his trip to the Arctic Circle in April 2006, during a fact-finding mission on global warming. [edit] Expenses controversyBarker was implicated in the 2009 MPs' expenses scandal for his purchase and sale of London flats.[2][3] [edit] Personal lifeBarker married Celeste (Harrison), an heiress to the Charles Wells brewery fortune, in 1992. Following a diary report in The Observer,[4] Barker confirmed he and his wife had separated and on 26 October 2006, British tabloid the Daily Mirror revealed that he had left his wife and children for another man, William Banks-Blaney. The paper confirmed the story by quoting his mother-in-law.[5] The Sun reported that the man was the painter and decorator employed to oversee renovations on the Barkers' Peasmarsh family home.[6] It was later revealed that Barker was divorcing his wife. The Independent on Sunday has since reported that Barker has confirmed that he is gay.[7] Barker's wealth is estimated at £3.9m.[8]
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