Duncan Hames

Duncan Hames
Duncan Hames MP
Member of Parliament
for Chippenham
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Constituency Created
Majority 2,470 (4.7%)
Personal details
Born 16 June 1977 (1977-06-16) (age 34)
Nationality English
Political party Liberal Democrat
Residence Holt, Wiltshire
Alma mater University of Oxford
Website www.duncanhames.org.uk

Duncan John Hames[1] (born 16 June 1977) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire since the 2010 general election.

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Early life

Hames was born in Hertfordshire and attended Watford Grammar School for Boys. He studied PPE at the University of Oxford,[2] where he was an executive officer of the Oxford University Student Union and represented the Oxford Union in debating competitions.[3]

Career

After graduating from Oxford, Hames trained as an accountant with Deloitte. He was the Liberal Democrat candidate in his home constituency of Watford at the 2001 general election, then moved to Holt in Wiltshire and from 2003 to 2007 served as a member of West Wiltshire District Council. He joined the board of the South West of England Regional Development Agency in 2003, and was the Lib Dem candidate for the Westbury, Wiltshire, constituency at the 2005 general election.[4]

In July 2006, shortly after the creation of a new Chippenham county constituency, Hames was selected as his party's first candidate for it,[4] and his success at the 2010 general election gave Wiltshire its first Liberal member of parliament in 86 years.[5][6]

Hames recently ran the Chippenham Half Marathon to help raise funds for Parkinson’s Disease Society.[7]

Personal life

Hames is married to fellow Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson.[8]

References

External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency Member of Parliament for Chippenham
2010 – present
Incumbent

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