Background
STREETER, Gary Nicholas was born on October 2, 1955 in Hayling Island, England. Parents: Kenneth Victor Streeter and Shirley Nellie Streeter (née Keable).
STREETER, Gary Nicholas was born on October 2, 1955 in Hayling Island, England. Parents: Kenneth Victor Streeter and Shirley Nellie Streeter (née Keable).
Kings College, London, Bachelor of Laws, law, 1974-1977. Spoken languages: English, French.
He was re-elected as Member of Parliament in 2010 and 2015, gaining 56% and 56.6% of the votes cast, respectively. He went to Tiverton Grammar School on Barrington Street in Tiverton, then King"s College London, where he gained a first class honours degree in Law. From 1984-1998, he was a solicitor and partner at Foot and Bowden (now called Foot Ansteys) in Plymouth, where he specialised in company and employment law.
He was a councillor, initially for the Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party), on Plymouth City Council from 1986-1992.
Streeter served as a junior minister in the Lord Chancellor"s Department under John Major from 1996 until the defeat of the Major Government in 1997, and was Shadow Secretary of State for International Development in the Shadow Cabinet of William Hague from 1998 until the new Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith returned him to the backbenches in 2001. He assumed the role after Sir Peter Viggers stepped down during the MPs" expenses scandal.
His own expenses for 2008/09 were £162,719, ranking 158th out of 647 MPs. In March 2012, Streeter was one of three MPs who signed a letter to the Advertising Standards Authority asking it to reverse its decision to stop the Christian group "Healing on the Streets of Bath" from making explicit claims that prayer can heal.
The letter called for the American Statistical Association to provide "indisputable scientific evidence" that faith healing did not work.
In 2013 Streeter referred to the "familiar glint in the swivelled eyes of the purists" within his own party in an article attacking the divisions caused by those activists who were calling for a referendum on European Union membership. Streeter argued that the result of party infighting over the issue would be "a Labour-led government bend the knee to Brussels".
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Another signer, Tim Farron, subsequently elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, later wrote that the letter was not "well-worded" and that he should not have signed it "as it was written".
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Since 1997 he has been Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for South West Devon, having previously been the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton between 1992 and 1997.
He is currently a member of the Speaker"s Committee on the Electoral Commission and is the member of the committee responsible for answering oral questions in Parliament on behalf of the Electoral Commission. The remark followed allegations that senior members of the government had characterised Eurosceptic activists as "swivel-eyed loons".
Spouse Janet Vanessa Streeter (née Stevens), 1978. Children: Tamsin, Gareth.