John Minor

John Minor MP has been the Conservative MP for Cambridge since 1992, in a safe Conservative seat. He

now has a majority of 12,216 and an electorate of 46,000.

He was a backbencher in parliament until 2003 when he was given defence minister role by Prime Minister Michael Gove MP under the coalition which lasted only a few months with the Royalists, Liberals and Conservatives, being formed after the General Election, making Labour the largest party and no support to give them government. Due to disagreements a General Election was called by Gove, giving the Conservatives an overall majority. Later, after chaos in parliament he resigned as Defence minister, then later got a new job as

Early Life
Being born on 5th December 1951, he grew up in a very wealthy family in Richmond, South West London. He father, Christopher Minor, was the Member of Parliament there for the Conservatives until the 1986 General Election, after standing down. He sadly died in 1994 at the age of 82. His mother was a journalist. Minor studied Politics at Cambridge University, later becoming the Member of Parliament there, having lived there and was a well-known writer for the telegraph before doing so.