Chris Huhne MP
Chris Huhne is Member of Parliament for Eastleigh and Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.Chris was an economic and financial journalist for nineteen years, and a City economist for five years, before being elected as a member of the European Parliament in 1999. Chris resigned from the European Parliament when he was elected as Eastleigh's MP in 2005. Chris wrote an award-winning economics column every week for ten years first for the Guardian and then for the Independent on Sunday, and then edited the business sections of both the Independent and Independent on Sunday and won the prestigious Wincott award both as junior and as senior financial journalist of the year.
On election to Westminster in 2005, Charles Kennedy asked Chris to become the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, dealing with tax and public spending as a Treasury spokesman for the party. Chris was the Liberal Democrat spokesman on the Finance Bill 2005. Following the party leadership election in March 2006, Chris was appointed Shadow Environment Food and Rural Affairs Secretary.
Chris has written four books mainly on the themes of third world debt and development, European integration and the Euro, and general economics. He has also contributed many articles to collections on British politics and policy and also wrote a weekly column about Europe for the London Evening Standard from 1999 to 2002.
Chris was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he took first class honours in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
