• Horwood MP

  Martin Horwood MP

  Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham

  House of Commons
  

  Martin was born in Cheltenham in 1962. He went to Oxford University to read Modern History in 1981, and was elected President of the Oxford Student Liberal Society and then Chair of the party’s national student wing, the Union of Liberal Students. After graduating and leaving student politics, Martin worked first in a London advertising agency and then in the voluntary sector. In 1990 he moved to Oxford to work for Oxfam and was elected as a local district and parish councillor there. Following a year working in India, Martin returned to the UK to become the first Director of Fundraising at the Alzheimer’s Society, following which he worked as Head of Consultancy for Target Direct. Martin was elected as Cheltenham’s MP in May 2005. He has formerly been a member of the Environmental Audit Committee and the shadow environment minister and the Chair of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary committee on Transport. He is currently co-chair of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary committee on International Affairs.

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