Education
He attended Leeds Grammar School (then a direct grant grammar school) and at The Queen"s College, Oxford he read law, getting a Bachelor in 1971.
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Nigel Waterson
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Career
He was Conservative Party member of Parliament for Eastbourne until the 2010 election. He was first elected in 1992. He was a junior minister in the government of John Major.
He became a barrister and founded the firm Waterson Hicks.
From 1974-1978 he was a councillor on Hammersmith and Fulham borough council. He contested Islington South and Finsbury in 1979.
Waterson was the Shadow Minister for Pensions and Conservative Spokesman for Older People and is a patron of many local charities including President of the Eastbourne Constitutional Club and Vice President for Age Concern - Eastbourne. In the Conservative leadership contest in 2005 he backed Ken Clarke to be the next leader before Clarke lost in a preliminary round.
Waterson lost his seat to the Liberal Democrat Stephen Lloyd in the 2010 general election.
Following the election Waterson sued Lloyd for libel regarding claims concerning his expenses in a general election campaign leaflet. Waterson lost this case on appeal in 2013, after winning the initial High Court case in 2011.
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51st United Kingdom Parliament. 52nd United Kingdom Parliament. 53rd United Kingdom Parliament.
54th United Kingdom Parliament.
