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Andrew Henry George (born December 2 , 1958 ) British Politician He is the Liberal Democrat Member Of Parliament for St Ives . Andrew George was born in Mullion near The Lizard , Cornwall one of eight children born to a Horticulturalist father and Music Teacher mother, and was educated locally at the Helston Grammar School , before attending the University Of Sussex where he received a Bachelor Of Arts degree in Cultural and Community Studies in 1980 . He finished his education at the University College, Oxford where he was awarded a Master's Degree in Agricultural Economics in 1981 . He worked in local government initially as a rural officer with the Nottinghamshire Rural Council in 1981 , until he became the deputy director of the Cornwall Rural Council in 1985 , where he remained until his election to Westminster . He contested the seat of St Ives at the 1992 General Election where he finished second, just 1,645 votes behind the sitting Conservative MP David Harris. Harris stood down at the 1997 General Election and George won the seat with a majority of 7,170 and has remainied the MP there since. He made his Maiden Speech on May 22 , 1997 . {Link without Title} In the House Of Commons he was made a spokesman on Agriculture, Fisheries And Food by Paddy Ashdown in 1997 , and was moved under the new leadership of Charles Kennedy in 1999 to speak on Department Of Social Security . Following the 2001 General Election he became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader Of The Liberal Democrats Kennedy. He was promoted to the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet in 2002 as the Shadow Rural Affairs and Food Secretary. He has been the Shadow Secretary Of State For International Development since the 2005 General Election . On , and was one of the founder members of the Cornish Constitutional Convention, campaigning for a Cornish Assembly . He has been married to Jill Elizabeth Marshall, a Nurse , since 1987 and they have a son (Davy) and a daughter (Morvah, b. 1987) and live in Hayle . On January 6 , 2006 he was one of the first members of the Liberal Democrat Frontbench team to threaten to resign his post if Charles Kennedy had not stood down as leader by January 9 , 2006. He was sacked from the frontbench on March 8 by Kennedy's successor, Sir Menzies Campbell . PUBLICATIONS
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