Nigel Adams is a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Selby and Ainsty

Selby and Ainsty (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in North Yorkshire

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Early life

Born in Goole

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, and raised in Selby

Selby

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, the son of a school caretaker and school cleaner, Nigel Adams attended Camblesforth

Camblesforth

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 Primary School, Selby Grammar School and Selby High School

Selby High School

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. He left school in 1984, aged 17. Later, following redundancy, he set up a telecommunication company with a £20 government grant and went on to sell it to a PLC.

Non-political career

He worked in sales and marketing within the telecommunications industry. He was the founding managing director of Advances Digital Telecom Ltd, 1993-1999. He was appointed director of JWE Telecom plc for a year in 1999. He became the non-executive chairman of Pareto Law plc from 2001 until 2002. In 2003 he was director of Ebor Events Ltd until 2005, when he became a director of the Yorkshire Tourist Board. He has been a director of NGC Networks Ltd since 2006.

Political career

He unsuccessfully contested the Rossendale and Darwen at the 2005

United Kingdom general election, 2005

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, coming second but reducing the sitting Labour

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 MP, Janet Anderson

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's majority.

He was president of the Selby Conservative Association, 2002–04 and Deputy Regional Chairman of the Yorkshire and Humberside Conservatives from 2002–03. He was a board member of the North of England Conservative Party from 2002–03

Following his election to Parliament, Adams was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary

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 to the Leader of the House of Lords

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 and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

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, The Lord Strathclyde

Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde

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Personal life

A keen sportsman, he plays competitive cricket in the York Senior League and is a former member of the Yorkshire Cricket Club's members committee. He is a fundraiser and is active on the Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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 committee of the Lord's Taverners

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. He served as a governor at two of his former schools, Camberforth Primary (2002–04) and Selby High School since 2007.

External links

• Nigel Adams MP official constituency website
• Nigel Adams MP Conservative Party profile
• Selby and Ainsty Conservatives
• Nigel Adams Profile at New Statesman
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