Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire

Elected: 2010

Bio:
Before being elected in 2010 Jesse worked at Barclays, mainly on Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. He left Barclays in 1997 in order to teach and do research in philosophy at UCL, and later at Birkbeck College. Jesse has been a Conservative since university; he worked to help Oliver Letwin MP retain his seat in West Dorset during the 2005 General Election, and stood as a Conservative candidate in the 2006 Council elections. He has acted as a policy adviser to George Osborne MP while he was Shadow Chancellor, and to the Shadow Work and Pensions team. He is a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and has written books such as "Compassionate Conservatism" (2006) and "The Big Society" (2010) He is chair of the conservative Co-operative Movement and a member of the Treasury and Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills Select Committees.



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