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The Right Honourable Sir
Conor Burns
MP
Official portrait, 2020
Minister of State for Trade Policy
In office 7 September 2022 – 7 October 2022
Prime Minister
Liz Truss
Preceded by
Penny Mordaunt
Succeeded by
Greg Hands
In office 25 July 2019 – 4 May 2020
Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
Preceded by
George Hollingbery
Succeeded by
Greg Hands
Minister of State for Northern Ireland
In office 16 September 2021 – 7 September 2022
Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
Preceded by
Robin Walker
Succeeded by
Steve Baker
Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by
John Butterfill
Majority
10,150 (22.1%)
Personal details
Born
(1972-09-24) 24 September 1972 (age 51) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Political party
Conservative
Alma mater
University of Southampton
Sir Conor Burns (born 24 September 1972) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bournemouth West since 2010. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Minister of State for Trade Policy from 2019 to 2020 and again in 2022 and Minister of State for Northern Ireland from 2021 to 2022.
Born in Belfast, Burns moved to Hertfordshire aged eight. He worked in finance and communications before being elected for Bournemouth West at the 2010 general election. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson from 2010 to 2012, when he resigned due to his opposition to the House of Lords Reform Bill 2012. He served as PPS to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, before resigning from the post in 2018 because he wanted to speak more openly on other areas of policy. Following Johnson's appointment as Prime Minister, Burns served as Minister of State for Trade Policy. He resigned from the post in 2020, after a Commons Select Committee on Standards inquiry found that he had threatened to use parliamentary privilege to intimidate a member of the public for his family's gain during a financial dispute involving his father.
In the 2021 cabinet reshuffle Johnson re-appointed Burns to his government as Minister of State for Northern Ireland. He returned as Minister of State for Trade Policy after Liz Truss became Prime Minister in September 2022. Truss dismissed Burns from the post the following month when he had the whip suspended following an allegation of misconduct at the 2022 Conservative Party Conference. He was later cleared of misconduct and the whip was restored on 3 December 2022.
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of the vote, while the latter was also held for the Conservatives by ConorBurns with 53.5%. However, the seats saw some of the largest increases in Labour...
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was also in the indie band Sorry About Dresden, which Conor played in from time to time. Conor has been writing and releasing music from a very young...
rejected after a campaign by locals and the owners of Beales backed by ConorBurns MP. The 65 studio and 11 one bedroom flats with no parking which were...
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of close contests, and Huhne narrowly beat the Conservative candidate ConorBurns with the second lowest swing against the Liberal Democrats of any seat...
she met an English soldier from Liverpool named Francis Burns. Until he was 5-years-old, Burns spoke only German which resulted in local children spending...
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council wards Branksome East and Alderney in 2010. It is represented by ConorBurns, a Conservative Member of Parliament, who retained the seat with a majority...
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