Derek Conway
Derek Leslie Conway TD (born 15 February 1953) is an English politician and television presenter. A member of the centre-right Conservative Party, Conway served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Old Bexley and Sidcup from 2001 to 2010. He is currently a presenter of Epilogue, a book review programme on Press TV, an English-language international television news channel funded by the Iranian government.
In January 2008 Conway announced that he would stand down at the next general election after a Commons standards committee found that he had employed his son Freddie, a full-time student at Newcastle University, as a political researcher using public funds, despite there being no record of his son doing any work at Westminster. As a result, Conservative Party leader David Cameron withdrew the whip from Conway, effectively expelling him from the Parliamentary Conservative group. He received considerable criticism from the press concerning the misuse of funds.
Read more about Derek Conway: Early Life, Member of Parliament For Shrewsbury and Atcham, Old Bexley and Sidcup, After Parliament, Personal Life
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