Hyun, Chris

Chris Huhne ( born Chris Huhne, full name Christopher Murray Paul Huhne ; born July 2, 1954 , London ) - British politician, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from May 12, 2010 to February 5 2012.

Chris Hune
Chris huhne
2nd UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary May 12, 2010 - February 5, 2012
Predecessor	Ed miliband
Successor	Ed davy
Birth	July 2, 1954 ( 1954-07-02 ) (aged 65) London
Spouse
The consignment	Liberal Democrats (UK)
Education	Oxford University

He graduated from Oxford University , where he studied philosophy, political science and economics. At the university he participated in the student organization of Labor; After 1981, he joined the Social Democratic Party, a breakaway from the Labor Party . He worked in rating agencies (in particular, was one of the founders of the rating agency Sovereign Ratings IBCA, which merged with the Fitch Group in 1997) and in journalism.

In the 1983 election, he ran for the House of Commons from Reading East County and took second place with 13,008 (27.4%) of the vote. In 1999 he was elected to the European Parliament from Southeast England, in 2005 - the House of Commons from Eastleigh County. In 2006, he participated in the election of the leader of the Liberal Democrats , but lost to Menzies Campbell . On December 18, 2007, he again participated in the election of the party leader, but lost to Nick Clegg by a slight margin.

In 2011, on the eve of the referendum on the introduction of preferential voting, he accused his colleague, minister and vice-chairman of conservatives, Sayyid Varsi , of Goebbels-style propaganda, for asserting that the new electoral system would facilitate the entry of extremist parties into parliament ^[1] .

He voted for further integration into the European Union, for the prohibition of smoking in public places, for the elected House of Lords, against the replacement of Trident rockets ^[2] .