George Gardiner (politician)

George Gardiner
Member of Parliament
for Reigate
In office
28 February 1974 – 8 April 1997
Preceded byGeoffrey Howe
Succeeded byCrispin Blunt
Personal details
Born
George Arthur Gardiner

(1935-03-03)3 March 1935
Waltham Abbey, England
Died16 November 2002(2002-11-16) (aged 67)
London, England
Political partyConservative (before March 1997; after June 1997)
Other political
affiliations
Referendum (1997)
Spouses
(m. 1961; div. 1980)
Helen Hackett
(m. 1980)
Children3
EducationBalliol College, Oxford (BA)
ProfessionJournalist

Sir George Arthur Gardiner (3 March 1935 – 16 November 2002) was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Reigate from 1974 to 1997. Two months before the 1997 general election he defected to the Referendum Party, becoming the only MP it ever had. The party dissolved later that year.

Political scientists David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh described Gardiner as "a staunch right-wing Thatcherite".[1]

  1. ^ Butler, David; Kavanagh, Dennis (1997). The British General Election of 1997. Basingstoke: Macmillan. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-333-64776-9.

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