Education
He was educated at Wallasey Grammar School and later attended Liverpool Nautical College.
He was educated at Wallasey Grammar School and later attended Liverpool Nautical College.
Thornton was first elected to Parliament in the 1979 general election, winning the marginal seat of Liverpool Garston from Labour"s Eddie Loyden. In the early 1980s, however, all seats were re-organised with the new boundaries set to come in at the next election. Liverpool Garston would lean strongly towards Labour, so Thornton sought a safer seat in Crosby, just outside Liverpool.
However, by 1997, the Conservatives were deeply unpopular and Thornton lost, by a surprisingly wide margin to Labour"s Claire Curtis-Tansley.
In 2007, Sir Malcolm Thornton became the 4th and current Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Board of Governors for Liverpool John Moores University.
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