Determined Conservative
By Rhodri Jones - 09.12.2010 / 04:25 CET
The UK's Secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs is a political survivor.
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A meeting of European Union leaders that had been convened next week to discuss ways of promoting economic growth is shaping up instead to be a crisis summit on Greece. |
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Political uncertainty jeopardises Greece's ability to receive further instalments of international loans. |
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Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and European Minister Bernard Cazeneuve campaigned against EU constitution. |
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Caroline Spelman, as seen by Marco Villard.
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Curriculum Vitae
1958: Born, Bishop's Stortford
1980: Graduated in European studies, Queen Mary College, University of London
1981-84: Sugar beet commodity secretary, National Farmers' Union
1984-89: Deputy director, International Confederation of European Beet-growers, Paris
1989-93: Research fellow, Centre for European Agriculture Studies
1989-2009: Director of Spelman, Cormack and Associates
1997-: Member of parliament for Meriden
1999-2001: Conservative Party spokesman on health and women's issues
2001-03: Shadow secretary of state for international development, and shadow minister for women
2003-04: Shadow secretary of state for the environment, and shadow minister for women
2004-07: Shadow secretary of state for communities and local government
2007-09: Chair of the Conservative Party
2009-10: Shadow secretary of state for communities and local government
2010-: Secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs
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