Chris Huhne

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Chris Huhne MP
Christopher Murray Paul Huhne (born 2 July 1954) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and the current Member of Parliament for the Eastleigh constituency. He was first elected to his seat in the general election of May 5, 2005. He is a Treasury spokesman for his party as shadow chief secretary. Prior to his election he had been a Member of the European Parliament for the South East England constituency and was active in the development of Liberal Democrat policy as chairman of four policy groups including broadcasting and the media, globalisation, the introduction of the euro and the reform of public services.

While elected to Brussels and Strasbourg from 1999 to 2005, he was deputy leader of the Lib Dem group in the European Parliament and was also the economic spokesman for the pan-european Liberal group (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe). He was also a member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, concerned with economic and financial policy including regulation of the financial sector. This is primarily due to his previous profession as a City economist and before that as an economic commentator for the Guardian, Independent and Independent on Sunday. He has also written four books that are mainly on the themes either of third world debt and development or european integration: the latest is entitled Both Sides of the Coin (1999, with James Forder), in which he argues the case for British membership of the Euro. He is also one of the contributors to the Orange Book (2004) in which he advocates reforms to the United Nations and international governance.

He is married to Vicky, and they have five children. He lives in Eastleigh Eastleigh.

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