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Liam Fox
Sir Liam Fox is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Trade from 2016 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Defence from 2010 to 2011. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Somerset, formerly Woodspring, from 1992 to 2024.
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Born 22 September 1961 · Q332374
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2026· 5 entries
“fully aware of the options available and the time-scales involved”
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“We must be very careful, those of us who have authority in defence, when discussing the sustainability of a mission. People”
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“I think it is unrealistic to share an aircraft carrier but, in other areas like tactical lift we can see what we can do.”
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“Frankly this process is looking less and less defensible as a proper SDSR (Strategic Defence and Strategy Review) and more like a”
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2024· 15 entries
“Inflation is now lower than in France, Germany or the eurozone, growth has been upgraded by the IMF, and Britain has become the world’s fourth biggest exporter, overtaking the Netherlands, France and Germany. Employment is at a historically high level, and the UK is the third biggest destination for inward investment globally. On financial services investment, we are top, attracting 108 projects last year, compared with France’s 39 and Germany’s 38. I wonder whether my hon. Friend can correct me”
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“I am generally supportive of the Government’s case. If the aim is partly to bring parties in dispute to UK courts for dispute resolution, have the Government made any assessment of the impact that that will have on the capacity of our court system?”
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“I begin by thanking my constituents in Portishead, whose dogged determination not to be treated as supine cash cows has led to this debate, which I am proud to have secured on their behalf. The residents at Port Marine, a beautiful development in Portishead that transformed derelict industrial land into an extremely desirable place to live, bought their properties—some leasehold and some freehold —with an external property management company managing some communal parts. My hon. Friend the Minis”
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“I swear there was no collusion here, Madam Deputy Speaker, but the hon. Gentleman takes me very neatly on to an even more horrendous example than the one I have already set out: fixed rent charges. First, let me set out to the House the history by which property companies can fleece freeholders using this mechanism. Across the country as a whole rent charges are rare, but they do exist in parts of England, such as around Bath, Bristol and Manchester. A real problem can arise when a buyer or t”
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“I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I will go on to set out just how horrendous some of those charges are and how it can be very difficult for my constituents to get legal redress. That is no doubt a situation that my hon. Friend the Minister has heard on a number of occasions. We all understand that communal land must be managed for the benefit of all. No one disputes that, but it needs to be done in a way that is fair and equitable, predictable and transparent. The current position is none”
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“The issue of rent charges also applies to freeholders; it is not just leaseholders who are the victims. An amendment to the Rentcharges Act 1977 would deal with the problem once and for all, so I encourage my hon. Friend to look at amendments to that Act when we bring forward legislation on this subject. If the Government do not want to bring forward such an amendment to the 1977 Act, I would be more than happy to table one.”
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“We all want better co-ordination in the face of any future pandemic risk, but it is also clear that the WHO wants supranational powers. Will my right hon. Friend guarantee that the UK Government will not accept any obligation that requires the UK to legislate to implement any element of the WHO treaty into UK law?”
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“Will my right hon. Friend explain what weight was given by her Committee to the fact that, unlike other people who work in Westminster, excluding a Member of Parliament is not just the exclusion of one individual, but the exclusion of the representation of 80,000 other individuals? That is a very different position, both in effect and historically.”
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“Before my hon. Friend the Minister goes on to his next point, may I question him on the issue of security? Clearly, stability in the region is in Britain’s national interest in terms of our security. Morocco is a key partner in the interdiction of people smuggling, the prevention of illegal migration, and stopping Iranian or Islamic State influence in the region, which would lead to further instability. Many of us therefore find it inexplicable that the Government do not follow our partners and”
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“This delegated legislation provides for a precept to be set. Can the Minister tell me what the mechanism is by which an upper limit for such a precept would be set, so that councils or Governments of a different colour would not necessarily be given a mechanism to fleece taxpayers?”
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“I thank my right hon. Friend for the leadership he has shown on this issue, and I echo his call for the need to avoid a spiral escalation. However, we have seen a military attack by Iran on a nation that its regime believes should not exist at all. Iran has directly or indirectly engineered a war in Gaza, with the aim of thwarting better relations between Arab states, especially Saudi Arabia, and Israel. We now have death and destruction in Gaza in a conflict that no one can win, and where the o”
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“<Question HRSContentId="{A441580D-AA5B-4E65-AE11-2701C2EC918E}">Q11. <QuestionText HRSContentId="{16ED4BB2-0891-4617-B391-D56BB880CA25}"></QuestionText>Tomorrow is World Down Syndrome Day. We have made huge innovative strides in this country, with the unanimous passing in this House of the Down Syndrome Act 2022 and initiatives such as yours, Mr Speaker, to provide work placements here in the Palace of Westminster for people with Down syndrome. However, there is an outstanding issue that we mus”
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“It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne).<span id="848" class="column-number" data-column-number="848"></span> I rise to echo the comments made so eloquently and clearly by my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith), and to add just a few comments of my own. I have always been in favour of the CPTPP, and, as I said from the Front Bench in 2019, “It is absolutely essential, particularly give”
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“My right hon. Friend is entirely right. As I observed at the time, President Clinton took the view that the treaty was the best hope that the west had of pulling China into a much more market-orientated, rules-based economy, where we could gain the benefits of a more liberal, global economy, but that is not how it turned out. We have had only one multilateral treaty since the WTO was created, the 2017 trade facilitation agreement. There is a hierarchy of agreements that we can secure in terms”
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“<strong> </strong>I would not want to contradict the noble Lord in any way whatsoever, but there are other elements of the Bill that give me cause for anxiety. I know those are part of the reason the Government have found bringing forward legislation difficult. We have talked on both sides of the House about the concept of the harm that could be done by these processes, but there is no test of harm in the Bill. If all forms of conversion therapy covered by the Bill can be harmful, surely it woul”
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Liam Fox lobbied PM on behalf of trade group that pays him £1,000 an hour
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The Good Law Project revealed that Fox had personally received a £10,000 cash donation in January 2023 by Aquind, a British cabling company controlled by Russian oil tycoon Viktor Fedotov, further fuelling ongoing invest
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Liam Fox’s link to PR firm raises questions over watchdog bid
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2021· 1 entry
Fox was the sponsor of a Down Syndrome Bill, an Act to "make provision about meeting the needs of persons with Down syndrome
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2020· 7 entries
The Guardian: Liam Fox reaches last five in race to head WTO
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The Guardian: Liam Fox faces growing scrutiny over Russian hack of personal email
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The Guardian: Russians hacked Liam Fox's personal email to get US-UK trade dossier
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The Guardian: Liam Fox is the latest in a long line of victims duped by Russia's GRU
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,099 times.
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Published “Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission” in The Lancet — cited 9,307 times.
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In exchange for the Israel–Morocco normalization agreement
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2019· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024).
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Published “Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems” in The Lancet — cited 9,256 times.
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2018· 4 entries
Published “The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package <sup>*</sup>” in The Astronomical Journal — cited 7,261 times.
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Commented that the 25% tariffs imposed by the United States on imported EU steel were "patently absurd
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Calling them a "embarrassment to themselves"
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,032 times.
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2017· 3 entries
“ensure the benefits of free trade are spread throughout the UK.”
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Career landmark: member of the 57th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2017–2019).
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Fox announced a new Board of Trade which would meet four times a year to "ensure the benefits of free trade are spread throughout the UK
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2016· 2 entries
Career landmark: Secretary of State for International Trade (2016–2019).
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Career landmark: President of the Board of Trade (2016–2019).
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2015· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 56th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2015–2017).
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2014· 1 entry
“The increase [in spending] over the last decade has been phenomenal and yet a lot of our health indicators lag behind other countries, particular things like stroke outcome or a lot of cancer outcomes.”
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2013· 1 entry
Published “Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,646 times.
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2011· 4 entries
“We could see a de facto partition of the country.”
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Career landmark: apology to the House of Commons.
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Published “The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease” in Alzheimer's & Dementia — cited 9,195 times.
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Published “Rivaroxaban versus Warfarin in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 7,955 times.
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2010· 4 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (2010).
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for Defence (2010–2011).
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Career landmark: member of the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2010–2015).
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Was appointed Defence Secretary by Prime Minister David Cameron, a position from which he resigned on 14 October 2011 over allegations that he had given a close friend, lobbyist Adam Werritty, inappropriate access to
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2009· 1 entry
Was critical towards some NATO partners for not contributing enough to the effort in the more dangerous southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan
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2008· 1 entry
I should have noted an interest and will be writing to the registrar to make this clear"
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2007· 1 entry
“Financial Interests. One trip he took in November 2007 was declared two months late. Fox blamed a”
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2006· 1 entry
Said, "Israel's enemies are our enemies and this is a battle in which we all stand together or we will all fall divided
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2005· 5 entries
And Shadow Defence Secretary from 2005 to 2010
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Career landmark: member of the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2005–2010).
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Career landmark: Shadow Foreign Secretary (2005–2005).
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Career landmark: Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (2005–2010).
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Published “The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 7,684 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chairman of the Conservative Party (2003–2005).
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2001· 2 entries
Jonathan Goodhand wrote, "However, little has happened since then to suggest that the various parties would have acted in good faith in the interests of peace
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Career landmark: member of the 53rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (2001–2005).
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1999· 1 entry
Career landmark: Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (1999–2003).
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1998· 2 entries
As the principal spokesman for Constitutional Affairs
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Career landmark: Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (1998–1999).
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1997· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 52nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1997–2001).
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1996· 2 entries
Career landmark: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1996–1997).
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Brokered an accord in Sri Lanka, called the Fox Peace Plan, between Chandrika Kumaratunga's PA and the opposition UNP of Ranil Wickremasinghe, on a bipartisan approach for ending the ethnic war
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1995· 2 entries
Career landmark: Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (1995–1996).
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Published “A Second Generation Force Field for the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 11,873 times.
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1994· 1 entry
Career landmark: Assistant Whip (1994–1995).
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1983· 1 entry
Studied at University of Glasgow Medical School (1983).
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1961· 1 entry
Born 1961-09-22.
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