Michael Brown

Michael Russell Brown (born 3 July 1951) is a British former Conservative Party politician and is now a newspaper and broadcast political journalist. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 1997. Brown was educated at the Andrew Cairns Secondary Modern School, Sussex, and the University of York, later studying for a year at the Middle Temple. He worked as a graduate management trainee for Barclays Bank from 1972 to 1974 then as a lecturer and tutor at Swinton Conservative College from 1974 to 1975. From 1975 to 1976 he was a part-time research assistant to Michael Marshall MP, working for Nicholas Winterton MP from 1976 to 1979. Brown was selected for the marginal constituency of Brigg and Scunthorpe and was elected at the 1979...