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The Right Honourable Andrew Mitchell MP | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Deputy Foreign Secretary | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 12 April 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
| Foreign Secretary | The Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Minister of State for Development and Africa | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 25 October 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
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| In office 4 September 2012 – 19 October 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Patrick McLoughlin |
| Succeeded by | Sir George Young |
| Secretary of State for International Development | |
| In office 12 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Douglas Alexander |
| Succeeded by | Justine Greening |
| Shadow Secretary of State for International Development | |
| In office 7 May 2005 – 11 May 2010 | |
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| Preceded by | Alan Duncan |
| Succeeded by | Douglas Alexander |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security | |
| In office 6 July 1995 – 1 May 1997 | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Alistair Burt |
| Succeeded by | John Denham |
| Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | |
| In office 20 July 1994 – 6 July 1995 | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Irvine Patnick |
| Succeeded by | David Willetts |
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Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 7 June 2001 | |
| Preceded by | Norman Fowler |
| Majority | 19,272 (36.8%) |
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| In office 11 June 1987 – 8 April 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Philip Holland |
| Succeeded by | Vernon Coaker |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Andrew John Bower Mitchell 23 March 1956 Hampstead, London, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Sharon Bennett |
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| Alma mater | Jesus College, Cambridge |
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| Website | Constituency website |
Andrew John Bower Mitchell (born 23 March 1956) is a British politician currently serving as Deputy Foreign Secretary since 2024 and Minister of State for Development and Africa since 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield since 2001 having previously served as the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997. Mitchell served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development from 2010 to 2012 and then briefly as Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons in late 2012.
Mitchell studied History at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was elected President of the Cambridge Union in 1978. He was elected to the House of Commons for Gedling in Nottinghamshire at the 1987 general election. He served in the second Major government as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1994 to 1995 and as a junior minister at the Department of Social Security from 1995 to 1997. Mitchell lost his seat to the Labour Party's Vernon Coaker at the 1997 general election. In 2001, he contested Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, a safe seat for the Conservatives, and was returned to Parliament.
Mitchell was appointed to the Shadow cabinet in 2005 as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development. In this role, he founded Project Umubano, a Conservative Party social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone in central and west Africa.[1] Under the coalition government of David Cameron, he served as Secretary of State for International Development from 2010 to 2012. In the September 2012 cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed chief whip. Amid public pressure due to the Plebgate scandal, Mitchell resigned from the government the following month, and returned to the backbenches.[2] In 2022, after serving on the backbenches for 10 years, Mitchell made a return to government as Minister of State for Development and Africa following the appointment of Rishi Sunak as prime minister. He was appointed to the honorific title of Deputy Foreign Secretary on 12 April 2024.[3][4]
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- ^ "President Kagame Officially Opens Girubuntu Education Center". 27 July 2011. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
- ^ "Minister Mitchell quits over "pleb" police outburst". 19 October 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- ^ "Minister of State (Development and Africa) – GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ "Ministerial Appointments: 12 April 2024". GOV.UK. Retrieved 12 April 2024.