Early Life
He is the son of Victor Charles Page. He went to the independent Hurstpierpoint College in West Sussex and Luton Technical College (became Luton College of Higher Education in the 1970s), gaining an HNC in Mechanical Engineering in 1962. He was an apprentice at Vauxhall Motors in Luton from 1959 to 1963, then worked for Page Holdings, becoming the Chairman from 1985 to 1995 and 1997 onwards.
From 1968to 1971, he was a district councillor in Banstead, Surrey.
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