Background
He is the son of Peter Beazley, and earned a Bachelor in History at the University of Bristol in 1974.
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Christopher John Beazley
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Education
Shrewsbury; Bristol University. Formerly Nuffield Research Fellow, School of European Studies, Sussex University.
Career
From 1974 to 1976, he worked at the Bank of England, then as a teacher 1976–1983 and as a research officer at the University of Sussex 1983–1984. He has since been a consultant and writer on European affairs From 1984 to 1994 he was the Member of the European Parliament for Cornwall and Plymouth, serving alongside his father Peter Beazley, who was the Member of the European Parliament for Bedfordshire South.
From 1999 to 2009, he was the Member of the European Parliament for the East of England.
He has been the Conservative spokesman on Culture and Education, Regional Development, Home Affairs and Justice, and Constitutional Affairs. A centrist conservative, he has been vice-chairman of the Conservative Group for Europe, and has criticised the United Kingdom Conservative Party of leaving the European People"s Party group.
Who would we join with? Some sort of mish-mash of mavericks who have no power at home domestically?, on the Conservative Party leaving the European People"s Party. "Europe is no more divided, but we are still divided by our experience.".
Politics
He is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism. –Christopher Beazley, Prague, June 2008, in his speech at the conference "Conscience of Europe and Communism" (Svědomí Evropy a komunismus) closing with the Prague Declaration (Pražská deklarace).
Membership
He was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. A few months before he left the European Parliament in 2009, he became a full member of the European People"s Party, despite the United Kingdom Conservative Party"s plans to withdraw from their parliament group, saying, "I cannot watch and say nothing while the Tories walk away from their allies, friends and colleagues in Europe.".
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Conservative Party