John Glen
John Philip Glen is a British Conservative Party politician, elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Salisbury in the May 2010 general election. Born in 1974, he is married with two step-children.
Political career
After university, John worked as a parliamentary researcher for two government ministers in the last year of the Conservative administration (1996-97). After a three year period working for a management consultancy firm, Glen worked for William Hague MP for eight months. In his role as Head of the Political Section of the Conservative Research Department, he prepared and briefed Hague for Prime Minister's Question Time, and briefed the Shadow Cabinet for media appearances.
In the 2001 general election, Glen stood as a candidate for Plymouth Devonport, achieving second place with 27.1% of the vote and 2.9% swing. In early 2004, John returned to the Conservative Party to work as Deputy Director of the Conservative Research Department looking after the day to day management of twenty researchers in the run up to the 2005 General Election. He then became Director of the Department and set up the secretariat for the Policy Review that was established after David Cameron became Leader.
Glen was elected to Parliament in the general election of May 2010 with an increase in the percentage share of the vote compared with the Conservative result in 2005. From June 2010 to September 2012, he sat on the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. In the September 2012 reshuffle, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
Education
Glen attended King Edward’s School, Bath where he was Head Boy. He then went on to study at Mansfield College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He later entered the University of Cambridge, where he studied for an MBA at Fitzwilliam College.
