Education
He was educated at Bristol Grammar School before reading Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group) at Worcester College, Oxford.
He was educated at Bristol Grammar School before reading Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group) at Worcester College, Oxford.
Watkinson defected to the Social Democratic Party in the 1980s.
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Watkinson was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West in the October 1974 general election, but lost the seat in 1979 to the Conservative Paul Marland.