", "Clarke: I wouldn't rule out becoming PM", https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/sep/03/commons-showdown-looms-in-battle-over-no-deal-brexit-live?page=with:block-5d6ed2f58f0845a5dab7cc88#block-5d6ed2f58f0845a5dab7cc88, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/04/parliament-whip-removed/, "What is removing the whip, filibustering and other Brexit jargon? [3] He won a scholarship to attend the independent Nottingham High School[4] before going to read for a law degree at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with an upper second honours degree. Business Minister Kwasi Kwarteng defended the prime minister's decision to remove the whip from Mr Clarke and the other Tory rebels. He made his maiden speech on 28 September 2020. In June 1970, just before his 30th birthday, he won the East Midlands constituency of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire, south of Nottingham, from Labour MP Tony Gardner. You currently have no podcasts in your queue. He is the subject of a portrait in oil commissioned by Parliament.[8][9]. Clarke's successor, the Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown, continued these policies, which eliminated the deficit by 1998 and allowed Brown to record a budget surplus for the following four years. Police thank Nottinghamshire residents for their part in helping stop the spread... Information about BBC links to other news sites, Trump and Biden duel in chaotic, bitter debate. The parliamentary stalwart craved the position of leader of the Conservative Party, but failed during his three attempts in 1997, 2001, and 2005. He enjoyed success under John Major's government, initially continuing to serve as education secretary, but then moving to home secretary and eventually chancellor of the exchequer. Opinion polls indicated he was more popular with the general public than with his party, whose generally Eurosceptic stance did not chime with his pro-European views. Brexit: Boris Johnson defeated as MPs take control, Uncovering the secrets of Australia's hidden reefs. Posted at 14:39 9 Sep 2019 Brexit: Five days in five minutes [48] His total time as a government minister is the fifth-longest in the modern era after Winston Churchill, Arthur Balfour, Rab Butler, and The Duke of Devonshire. He also appeared on the podium of the 2012 British Grand Prix to present the first-place trophy to Mark Webber. Clarke is a sports enthusiast, being a supporter of both local clubs Notts County[83][84] and Nottingham Forest, who offered him a chair[85] and a former President of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. View the profiles of people named Ken Clarke. [39], Clarke announced in February 2011 that the Government intended to scrutinise the relationship between the European Court of Human Rights and national parliaments. © Copyright 2020 - News 106 Ltd. Reg #309181 Marconi House, Digges Lane, Dublin 2.

Kenneth Harry Clarke, Baron Clarke of Nottingham CH QC PC (born 2 July 1940), often known as Ken Clarke, is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 1992 to 1993 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 to 1997. Lord Ken Clarke joined Kieran on Tuesday's edition of the Hard Shoulder to give his reaction. After leaving Cambridge, Clarke was called to the bar in 1963 at Gray's Inn, and "took silk" (was promoted to Queen's Counsel) in 1980.[7]. The contest was criticised for not involving the rank-and-file members of the Party, where surveys showed Clarke to be more popular. After the Conservatives entered opposition in 1997, Clarke contested the leadership of the Party for the first time. From 2017 to 2019 he was Father of the House.

As Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association (CUCA), Clarke invited former British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley to speak for two years in succession, prompting some Jewish students (including his future successor at the Home Office, Michael Howard) to resign from CUCA in protest.