John Minor MP

John Minor

Born on 16th December 1951, he was born to a very wealthy family who shortly moved to cambridge where Minor attended school and then university.He joined the Conservatives at age 19 in 1970.

He became an MP in 1991 for Cambridge at age 39, winning a small majority of only 60 against the liberals. Then he increased his majority to 2167 in the 1996 Election and increased his majority in 2001 to 4512. He then got an increased majority in every election since, now at 16908.

He defected to the UK indpendence Party in September 2006, holding a by election in Cambridge.