Andrew Murrison

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Murrison has held a variety of positions within the British government, including Minister for International Security Strategy, Minister of State for Northern Ireland, and then Minister of State for International Development and the Middle East. In Parliament, he chaired the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> from July 2017 to May 2019.

Early life and educationEdit

Andrew Murrison was born on 24 April 1961 in Colchester. The son of William Gordon Murrison RD and Marion Murrison, he grew up in Harwich, where he attended Harwich and Dovercourt High School,<ref name="Biography">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Ukwhoswho"/> and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.<ref name="Almanac">Robert Waller & Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics, Routledge, 2002, p. 852 Template:Webarchive at books.google.com</ref>

Medical and naval careerEdit

Having been awarded a Royal Navy scholarship, Murrison qualified as a doctor from the University of Bristol's medical school in 1984. He holds the degrees of MD and MB ChB.<ref name="Biography"/><ref name="Almanac"/>

After his graduation and until 2000, Murrison served in the Royal Navy as a medical officer based at Fareham and retired with the rank of Surgeon-Commander.<ref name="Biography"/><ref name="Almanac"/> During his naval career he worked as an Honorary Research Registrar at Southampton General Hospital and spent a year as a postgraduate student at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, obtaining a Diploma in Public Health.<ref name="Biography"/> From 2000, he worked as a general practitioner locum in Wiltshire and as a consultant in occupational health at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

In 2003, as a naval reserve officer, Murrison served in Iraq for a six-month tour of duty.<ref name="Biography"/>

Political careerEdit

Before entering full-time politics, Murrison was a member of the Bow Group, an assistant to Sir Peter Lloyd, and then from 1999 to 2000 an assistant to Lord Freeman, whose role at Conservative Central Office was screening potential parliamentary candidates.<ref name="Almanac"/>

Parliamentary careerEdit

At the 2001 general election, Murrison was elected to Parliament as the Conservative MP for Westbury with 42.1% of the vote and a majority of 5,294.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the 2001 Conservative leadership election, Murrison supported Michael Portillo.<ref name="Almanac"/>

In 2004, in a free vote, Murrison voted against the bill to ban foxhunting and hare coursing which became the Hunting Act 2004.<ref name="howtheyvoted" />

Murrison was re-elected as MP for Westbury at the 2005 general election with an increased vote share of 44.5% and an increased majority of 5,346.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After the election, he was appointed as shadow defence minister.<ref name="Guardian">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2005, he spoke in parliament against a proposed European military union, saying "The threat that the proposed Euro force might pose to one of the most successful post-war organisations, NATO, and to our symbiotic relationship with the United States, has surely not been adequately explored".<ref name="Guardian" />

In a Commons divisions in 2007 on a number of House of Lords reform options, Murrison voted for options 7 and 8, proposing a 100% elected House of Lords, including the removal of all remaining hereditary peers, and against options 4 and 5, which proposed a partly elected and partly appointed upper chamber.<ref name="howtheyvoted">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He is the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Clinical Leadership and Management, and is a member of the "Cardiac Risk in the Young All Party Parliamentary Group".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Prior to the 2010 general election, Murrison's constituency of Westbury was abolished, and replaced with South West Wiltshire. He was elected as MP for South West Wiltshire with 51.7% of the vote and a majority of 10,367.<ref name="electoralcalculus2010">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In November 2011, Murrison was appointed as the Prime Minister's special representative for First World War centenary commemorations.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He was in September 2012 appointed as Minister for International Security Strategy in the Ministry of Defence.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In July 2014, Murrison was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

At the 2015 general election, Murrison was re-elected as MP for South West Wiltshire with an increased vote share of 52.7% and an increased majority of 18,168.<ref name="electoralcalculus">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In January 2016, he appointed Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Tunisia and Morocco,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> until his resignation on 5 July 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Murrison was again re-elected at the snap 2017 general election with an increased vote share of 60% and an increased majority of 18,326.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was again re-elected at the 2019 general election with an increased vote share of 60.2% and an increased majority of 21,630.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At the 2024 general election, Murrison was again re-elected, with a decreased vote share of 33.8% and a decreased majority of 3,243.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Murrison is married to Jennifer (Jenny) Munden, a physiotherapist. They have five daughters and live near Mere in Wiltshire.<ref name="Biography"/><ref name="Ukwhoswho">MURRISON, Dr Andrew William Template:Webarchive at ukwhoswho.com (subscription site)</ref>

He was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council on 22 May 2019 at Buckingham Palace.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This gave him the honorific prefix "The Right Honourable" for life.

DecorationsEdit

File:Iraq Medal BAR.svg File:UK Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal ribbon.svg File:QEII Diamond Jubilee Medal ribbon.svg

File:UK Queen EII Platinum Jubilee Medal ribbon.svg File:Coronation of Charles III Medal ribbon.png File:Volunteer Reserves Service Medal.png

Ribbon	Description	Notes
File:Iraq Medal BAR.svg	Iraq Medal
File:UK Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal ribbon.svg	Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal	2002 UK version of this medal
File:QEII Diamond Jubilee Medal ribbon.svg	Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal	2012 UK version of this medal
File:UK Queen EII Platinum Jubilee Medal ribbon.svg	Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal	2022 UK version of this medal
File:Coronation of Charles III Medal ribbon.png	King Charles III Coronation Medal	2023 UK version of this medal
File:Volunteer Reserves Service Medal.png	Volunteer Reserves Service Medal

PublicationsEdit

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