David John Mellor – He is a former British politician, non-practicing barrister, broadcaster, journalist, and businessman.
He is a member of the Conservative Party and served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1990–92).
He also serve as a Secretary of State for National Heritage from April to September 1992, before resigning in 1992.
He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney from 1979 to 1997.
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David John Mellor Early Life
David John Mellor was born on 12 March 1949 in Dorset, Wareham, Dorset, England, United Kingdom. Mellor was famous as a Layer.
is a British broadcaster, barrister, and former politician. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1990–92) and Secretary of State for National Heritage (April–September 1992), before resigning in 1992. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney from 1979 to 1997.
Mellor was educated at Swanage Grammar School, and Christ’s College, Cambridge, during which time he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and a contestant on University Challenge.
After briefly working for Jeffrey Archer at the time a Member of Parliament, while studying for his bar exams, Mellor was called to the Bar in 1972.
He ceased to practice in 1979 upon being elected as an MP, and he remains “non-practicing”. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1987.
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David John Mellor Career
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Since leaving Parliament, Mellor has worked as a newspaper columnist, a radio presenter, and an after-dinner speaker. He also served as Chairman of the government’s ‘Football Task Force’.
After contesting West Bromwich East in the general election in October 1974, Mellor became the MP for Putney at the age of 30 in the general election of 1979. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1983, 1987, and 1992.
Mellor was made Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Energy in 1981, becoming Margaret Thatcher’s youngest minister, aged 32.
In 1983, Mellor was appointed as a minister in the Home Office where he was involved in several pieces of legislation, including the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Prosecution of Offenders Act 1985 (which established the Crown Prosecution Service).
He was also involved with legislation enabling the re-investigation of miscarriages of justice and the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
David John Mellor Net Worth
According to various reliable online sources, David John Mellor’s estimated net worth of $5 to $10 million. In addition to his massive social media following actor.
In 1987, Mellor was moved to the Foreign Office by Thatcher and was made responsible for the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union (before the fall of the Iron Curtain).
At this point, he made an extended appearance on the Channel 4 discussion program After Dark speaking about the Mafia.
David John Mellor was briefly Minister for Health in 1988, where he was responsible for health service reforms.
He was made a Privy Councillor in 1990 by Thatcher, shortly before she resigned as Prime Minister.
Mellor was briefly Arts Minister in 1990 before entering John Major’s new Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in November of that year.
He was interviewed in December 1991 on the TV program Hard News following the establishment of the Calcutt Review inquiring into Press Standards.
Mellor claimed during the interview that “the press – the popular press – is drinking in the last chance saloon” and called for curbs on the “sacred cow” of press freedom.
Following the 1992 general election, Mellor remained a Cabinet Minister as Secretary of State in the newly created Department of National Heritage (now the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport), during which period he was occasionally referred to as the “Minister for Fun” after comments he made to the waiting press on leaving 10 Downing Street on his appointment.
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David Mellor After Parliament
Mellor was chairman of the incoming Labour government’s ‘Football Task Force’ from August 1997 until its dissolution in 1999.
Among the recommendations accepted by the Labour government and introduced into law was the criminalization of racial abuse by an individual spectator, as distinct from a group.
Mellor has also pursued a career in journalism, and has written columns for six national newspapers including the Evening Standard, The Guardian, and The People, often on current affairs, but also his specialist interests of sport and the arts.
He regularly presented football-related programs on BBC Radio 5 until 2001, and classical music programs on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 3 for six years.
Mellor is Opera and Classical Music critic for the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday. He is a regular contributor to the radio station LBC, on which he previously co-hosted a Saturday morning politics and current affairs discussion program for eight years with former London Mayor Ken Livingstone. This continued until 2016 when Livingstone was sacked and Mellor’s contract was not renewed.
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David John Mellor Conquest at 1997 General Election
David Mellor contested the 1997 general election but was defeated by the Labour Party’s Tony Colman as one of the most notable Tory casualties as Labour won by a landslide to end nearly 20 years of the Conservative government.
The election night was memorable for Mellor’s showdown with the Referendum Party founder Sir James Goldsmith.
Mellor was taunted by Goldsmith and Michael Yardley, the Spokesperson for the Sportsman’s Alliance (who gave him a slow handclap and shouted “Out! Out! Out!”) during Mellor’s concession speech.
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