Patrick Mercer, Esq, OBE, MP

Career: Army Serv: trg team in Uganda post civil war 1986, fndr memb Province Exec Ctee NI 1992, instr Army Staff Coll Camberley 1994-95, CO 1 Bn Worcs and Sherwood Foresters Bosnia and Canada 1995-97, head of strategy Army Trg and Recruiting Agency 1997-98, nine tours NI (mentioned despatches 1983, gallantry commendation 1990); journalist Today (BBC Radio 4) 1999, freelance journalist 2000-01; memb KCL Mission to East Timor 2000; MP (Cons) Newark 2001-, PPS to Hon Bernard Jenkin, MP, qv, as shadow sec of state for Defence 2003, shadow min for Homeland Security 2003-07; memb Defence Select Ctee 2001-03