Archie Norman - Revision history

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 [[Category:MP|Norman, Archie]]
 [[Category:Think Tanker|Norman, Archie]]
-[[Category:Conservative Party|Norman, Archie]]
+[[Category:Conservative Party|Norman, Archie]] [[Category:British Politician|Norman, Archie]]
 ==Notes==
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-[[Category:Old Carthusians|Norman, Archie]]
+[[Category:Old Carthusians|Norman, Archie]][[Category:Cambridge alumni|Norman, Archie]][[Category:Harvard alumni|Norman, Archie]]
 [[Category:MP|Norman, Archie]]
 [[Category:Think Tanker|Norman, Archie]]

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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">We've got hundreds of thousands of people who don't want to lose what we were creating, we've got financial support from people who wanted to invest in this as the future of the party and we would like to find a way of channelling that and harnessing it. <ref>Rachel Sylvester, ‘[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1334769/Portillo-supporters-to-fight-on.html Portillo supporters to fight on]’, ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'', 21 July  2001; p.1.</ref></blockquote>
-Norman and his friend [[Francis Maude]] (who had served as a non-executive director of [[Asda]] from 1992 to 1999) emerged as leaders of the ‘Portillistas’. They decided to set up two seperate think-tanks as part of their modernisation project. One, XChange Ideas or simply XChange, would be rebranded as [[Policy Exchange]] a few months later. A company limited by guarantee, formed in October 2001, became XChange Ideas on 9 November 2001. A seperate company [[Conservatives for Change]] was also was set up that October, and was branded [[CChange]]. Norman was a director of [[CChange]] (which has since been dissolved) from November 2001 to May 2005. That year Norman left parliament.
+Norman and his friend [[Francis Maude]] (who had served as a non-executive director of [[Asda]] from 1992 to 1999) emerged as leaders of the ‘Portillistas’. They decided to set up two separate think-tanks as part of their modernisation project. One, XChange Ideas or simply XChange, would be rebranded as [[Policy Exchange]] a few months later. A company limited by guarantee, formed in October 2001, became XChange Ideas on 9 November 2001. A separate company [[Conservatives for Change]] was also was set up that October, and was branded [[CChange]]. Norman was a director of [[CChange]] (which has since been dissolved) from November 2001 to May 2005. That year Norman left parliament.
 ==Affiliations==

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 ==Politics==
-In 1997 Norman was elected Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells and whilst still Chairman of [[Asda]] he was chief executive and deputy chairman of the [[Conservative Party]] from 1997 to 1999. He was the first FTSE-100 chairman to sit in the House of Commons. <ref>Chris Blackhurst, '[http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/channel/Leadership/news/735030/exclusive-mt-interview-archie-norman/ Exclusive MT interview: Archie Norman]', ''Management Today'', 3 September 2007.</ref>
+In 1997 Norman was elected Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells. He was the first FTSE-100 chairman to sit in the House of Commons <ref>Chris Blackhurst, '[http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/channel/Leadership/news/735030/exclusive-mt-interview-archie-norman/ Exclusive MT interview: Archie Norman]', ''Management Today'', 3 September 2007.</ref> and whilst still Chairman of [[Asda]] was chief executive and deputy chairman of the [[Conservative Party]] (1997-1999).
 He was a Shadow Minister in [[William Hague|William Hague's]] Shadow Cabinet, serving as Shadow Minister for Europe 1999-2000 and Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions 2000-01. <ref>''Debrett's People of Today'',[http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/15123/Archibald%20John%20(Archie)%20NORMAN.aspx|Archie Norman, Esq] [Accessed 15 April 2010]</ref>

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 He was a Shadow Minister in [[William Hague|William Hague's]] Shadow Cabinet, serving as Shadow Minister for Europe 1999-2000 and Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions 2000-01. <ref>''Debrett's People of Today'',[http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/15123/Archibald%20John%20(Archie)%20NORMAN.aspx|Archie Norman, Esq] [Accessed 15 April 2010]</ref>
-Norman was one of a group of Conservative MPs who had backed [[Michael Portillo|Michael Portillo’s]] campaign in the 2001 [[Conservative Party|Conservative]] leadership contest. Dubbed ‘Portillistas’ by Westminster commentators, [[Michael Portillo|Portillo’s]] backers saw themselves as modernisers of an out of touch party which had put off potential voters through its negativity, xenophobia and social conservatism. [[Michael Portillo|Portillo]] withdrew from the Conservative leadership race on the evening of 17 July 2001 and subsequently announced that he would leave politics. Only days later, Norman told the ''Daily Telegraph''’s Rachel Sylvester that he and other [[Michael Portillo|Portillo]] supporters were planning to set up a think-tank saying: ‘I came into public life to help transform the [[Conservative Party]] so it can win again, and that's what I'm still about.’ <ref>Rachel Sylvester, ‘[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1334767/Norman-still-selling-Portillos-dream.html Norman still selling Portillo's dream]’, ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'', 21 July 2001.</ref> On 21 July the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' ran a front page headline, ‘Portillo supporters to fight on’. Norman was quoted as saying:
+Norman was one of a group of Conservative MPs who backed [[Michael Portillo|Michael Portillo’s]] campaign in the 2001 [[Conservative Party|Conservative]] leadership contest. Dubbed ‘Portillistas’ by Westminster commentators, [[Michael Portillo|Portillo’s]] backers saw themselves as modernisers of an out of touch party which had put off potential voters through its negativity, xenophobia and social conservatism. [[Michael Portillo|Portillo]] withdrew from the Conservative leadership race on the evening of 17 July 2001 and subsequently announced that he would leave politics. Only days later, Norman told the ''Daily Telegraph''’s Rachel Sylvester that he and other [[Michael Portillo|Portillo]] supporters were planning to set up a think-tank saying: ‘I came into public life to help transform the [[Conservative Party]] so it can win again, and that's what I'm still about.’ <ref>Rachel Sylvester, ‘[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1334767/Norman-still-selling-Portillos-dream.html Norman still selling Portillo's dream]’, ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'', 21 July 2001.</ref> On 21 July the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' ran a front page headline, ‘Portillo supporters to fight on’. Norman was quoted as saying:
 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">We've got hundreds of thousands of people who don't want to lose what we were creating, we've got financial support from people who wanted to invest in this as the future of the party and we would like to find a way of channelling that and harnessing it. <ref>Rachel Sylvester, ‘[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1334769/Portillo-supporters-to-fight-on.html Portillo supporters to fight on]’, ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'', 21 July  2001; p.1.</ref></blockquote>