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Julian William Hendy Brazier TD (born July 24 , 1953 ) is a British Politician . He is the Conservative Member Of Parliament for Canterbury . EARY LIFE Born into a Military family, Julian Brazier was educated at The Dragon School , Wellington College, Berkshire , Brasenose College, Oxford , where he obtained a degree in Mathematics , he also attended the London Business School . He joined the Territorial Army aged 19 in 1972 and served for twenty years and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1993 . He was the Chairman of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1973 . He was employed by Chartered Consolidated Ltd 1975 - 1984 . Julian Brazier contested the 1983 General Election at Berwick-upon-Tweed , but was comfortably defeated by the Liberal MP Alan Beith by 8,215 votes. In 1984, he became a management consultant with H.B. Maynard International. He contested the safe Conservative seat of Canterbury at the 1987 General Election following the retirement of the sitting MP Sir David Crouch . He held the seat comfortably and Julian Brazier was thus elected as the Conservative MP for Canterbury with a majority of 14,891. He has remained as the MP for Canterbury since. PARLIAMENTARY CAREER Within Parliament , Brazier became the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Minister Of State at the Treasury Gillian Shepherd . He remained Shepherd's PPS after the 1992 General Election in her new capacity as the Secretary Of State For Employment , he resigned in 1993 as a protest against defence cuts. He was awarded the 'Backbencher of the Year' at the annual Spectator awards in 1996 . Following the 1997 General Election , he became a member of the Defence Select Committee . It was not until after the 2001 General Election that Julian Brazier was given a job by Iain Duncan Smith , initially as an Opposition Whip in 2001 , he became a spokesman on Work And Pensions in 2002 . He was briefly Home Affairs spokesman in 2003 , before being moved later in the year by the new Leader Of The Opposition Michael Howard to be a spokesman on International Affairs . Brazier remains on the frontbench after the 2005 General Election as a spokesman on Transport . Because of his military background, he has a special interest in the armed forces and has long been an advocate of military issues in the House Of Commons . As a practicing Roman Catholic , Brazier has been a long standing defender of traditional Family Values . PERSONAL LIFE Julian Brazier has been married to Katherine Elizabeth Blagden since 1984, and they have three sons. He is the son-in-law of Brigadier Paddy Blagden , a United Nations de-mining expert. In 2002 he was given a short suspended sentence following the death of a motorcyclist in a traffic accident in Italy. EXTERNAL LINKS
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