| 词条 | Derek Thomas (politician) |
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|name = Derek Thomas | honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}} |image = Official portrait of Derek Thomas crop 2.jpg |office = Member of Parliament for St Ives |term_start = 8 May 2015 |term_end = |predecessor = Andrew George |successor = |majority =312 (0.6%) |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|7|20|df=y}} |birth_place = Cornwall, United Kingdom |death_date = |death_place = |party = Conservative |religion = Christianity }}Derek Gordon Thomas[1] (born 20 July, 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician and former property developer of ethnic Cornish origin. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ives since the general election in May 2015.[2] Early life and careerThomas was born in Cornwall to parents who were missionaries.[3] He grew up in West Cornwall[3] and went on to complete a traditional Cornish Mason Apprenticeship.[3][6] He studied in South London and then returned to West Cornwall to be a development manager for Mustard Seed, a voluntary organisation in Helston, Cornwall[3] which he used to preach to local school children his strong creationist beliefs, and Chapel Street Methodist Church, Penzance.[4] He later started his own small construction business.[3] At this time he helped develop community projects to support vulnerable adults.[5] Political careerThomas was first elected as a candidate for the Conservative Party at a by-election in November 2005 for Penzance Central ward on Penwith District Council. He narrowly beat the Liberal Democrat candidate and subsequently opposed the creation of a unitary Cornwall Council. In May 2009, he did not stand for the new Penzance Central ward on the amalgamated Cornwall Council and the seat was narrowly won by the Liberal Democrat candidate.[3][6] He unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of St Ives for the Conservative Party at the 2010 general election, coming 1,719 votes behind the Liberal Democrat incumbent Andrew George. However, in the following general election in May 2015 he subsequently took the seat. In January 2016, the Labour Party unsuccessfully proposed an amendment in Parliament that would have required private landlords to make their homes "fit for human habitation". According to Parliament's register of interests, Thomas was one of 72 Conservative MPs who voted against the amendment who personally derived an income from renting out property. The Conservative Government had responded to the amendment that they believed homes should be fit for human habitation but did not want to pass the new law that would explicitly require it.[7] Thomas supported Brexit in the 2016 European Union Referendum.[8] Thomas once again contended for the St Ives seat in the 2017 general election, his campaign including a visit by Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Andrea Leadsom to his Penzance office. He went on to be re-elected with an increased vote share, but a diminished majority of 312. In the House of Commons he sits on the Health and Social Care Committee. He has previously sat on the Science and Technology Committee.[9] Thomas is currently the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Brain Tumours, and Vascular and Venous Disease.[10] Personal lifeThomas lives in London and the village of St Buryan with his wife Tamsin and their three young children.[11][12] References1. ^{{London Gazette |issue=61230 |date=18 May 2015 |page=9120}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000964|title=St Ives|work=bbc.co.uk|accessdate=8 May 2015}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite news |last= |first= |date= |title=Derek Thomas - Prospective MP |url=http://www.stivesconservatives.com/person/derek-thomas-prospective-mp |newspaper=St. Ives & The Isles of Scilly Conservatives |location=Cornwall, United Kingdom |access-date=8 May 2015 }} 4. ^1 {{cite news |last= |first= |date=8 January 2015 |title=Meet the candidates: Derek Thomas, Conservative, (West Cornwall) |url=http://www.westbriton.co.uk/Derek-Thomas-Conservative-St-IvesAge-42Occupation/story-25824319-detail/story.html |newspaper=The West Briton |location=Truro, Cornwall |access-date=8 May 2015 }} 5. ^{{cite news |last=Burton |first=Sarah |date= |title=About Me |url=http://derekthomas.org/about/ |newspaper=derekthomas.org |location= Penzance, Cornwall |access-date=8 May 2015 }} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://derekthomas.org/about/|title=About Derek|publisher=Personal website|accessdate=15 September 2018}} 7. ^{{cite news|title=Tories vote down law requiring landlords make their homes fit for human habitation|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-vote-down-law-requiring-landlords-make-their-homes-fit-for-human-habitation-a6809691.html|work=Independent|accessdate=15 September 2018|date=9 November 2012}} 8. ^{{cite web|author=Read |url=http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/which-tory-mps-back-brexit-who-doesnt-and-who-is-still-on-the-fence/ |title=Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence? | Coffee House |publisher=Blogs.spectator.co.uk |date= |accessdate=3 April 2017}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=Derek Thomas|url=https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/derek-thomas/4532|website=Parliament UK|accessdate=15 September 2018}} 10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/190327/contents.htm|title=House of Commons - Register Of All-Party Parliamentary Groups as at 27 March 2019: Contents|website=publications.parliament.uk|access-date=2019-04-04}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://derekthomas.org/about/|title=About Derek|publisher=Personal website|accessdate=15 September 2018}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-costs/your-mp/derek-thomas/|title=IPSA|publisher=GOV.UK |accessdate=15 September 2018}} External links{{Commons cat|Derek Thomas (British politician)}}
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