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Damian Green was born in Barry , Wales and was educated at Reading School in Berkshire and at Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor Of Arts degree in Philosophy , Politics and Economics in 1977 followed by a Master's Degree . He was President of the Oxford Union in 1977 and was the vice chairman of the National Association of Conservative Students for two years from 1980 . CAREER In 1978 he was appointed by BBC Radio as a Financial Journalist , before joining Channel 4 News as a Business Producer in 1982 . He joined '' The Times '' for a year in 1984 as the business news Editor , before returning to Television Journalism and Channel 4 as the business editor in 1985 . He became the City editor and also a Television Presenter on the ''Business Daily'' Television Program me from 1987 until he left television to join the Prime Minister's ''Policy Unit'' under John Major in 1992 . Green had acted as an occasional speech writer for Major since 1988 . He left 10 Downing Street in 1994 to run his own Public Affairs Consultancy . POLITICAL CAREER He stood against '' in having already asked a question of Chancellor Of The Exchequer Gordon Brown earlier the same day. Hansard - 20th May 1997 In select committee, and has been a member of the Treasury committee since the 2005 General Election . He returned to the frontbench under the leadership of David Cameron in 2005 as a spokesman on home affairs and the shadow minister for Immigration . In December 2005, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Immigration and Damian is Chairman of Parliamentary Mainstream, a Vice-President of the Tory Reform Group and he is a Vice-Chairman of the John Smith Memorial Trust. Damian Green MP official site Ashford International Railway Station in his constituency is the last stop in England on Eurostar before entering the Channel Tunnel between Cheriton and Coquelles , France and mainland Europe . He has been married to Alicia Collinson since 1988 and they have two daughters. In 2002, he spent the day as a Teacher at a school in the London Borough Of Wandsworth . BBC news - 9th Jan 02 PUBLICATIONS
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