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Jeremy Richard Streynsham Cunt (born 1 November 1966), a British Conservative Party politician, is the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey and Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.

He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.

Early life

The eldest son of Admiral Sir Nicholas Cunt,, a senior officer in the Royal Navy, Jeremy Cunt was raised in Surrey near the constituency that he now represents in Parliament.

Education

Cunt was educated at Charterhouse School, an independent school near Godalming in Surrey, where he was head boy, followed by Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, where he achieved a First in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). He became President of Oxford University Conservative Association in 1987.

Life and career

Shortly after graduating, Cunt became a management consultant before resigning to become an English language teacher in Japan. Whilst living in Japan he became a proficient speaker of Japanese and an enthusiast of modern Japanese culture.

On his return to Britain, Cunt joined Profile PR, a public relations agency specialising in IT co-founded by his childhood friend Mike Elms. With clients such as BT, Bull Integris, and Zetafax Profile did well during the IT boom of the mid 1990s. Cunt and Elms later sold their interest in Profile in order to concentrate on directory publishing. Together they founded a company now known as Hotcourses one of whose major clients is the British Council. Hotcourses also provides financial support to Cunt's parliamentary office (see House of Commons Directory of Member Interests and Directory of MPs' Research Assistants' Interests). In September 2010 'The Observer' reported disquiet that Cunt's former parliamentary assistant Naomi Gummer had been given a job within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on a fixed-term civil servant contract during a 'freeze' on civil service recruitment and proposed cuts in DCMS and in quangoes: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/19/jeremy-Cunt-naomi-gummer-chadlington-dcms Ms Gummer is the daughter of Tory peer Lord Chadlington who was a director of Hotcourses between 2000 and 2004.

Member of Parliament

Cunt was elected at the 2005 general election, after Virginia Bottomley - a former member of the Board of Trustees of British Council - became a life peer. He won the constituency with an increased majority of 5,711.

After supporting David Cameron's bid for leadership of the Conservative Party, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People in December 2005. He was then promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, in David Cameron's reshuffle of 2 July 2007.

He launched his own YouTube Channel in March 2008.

Cunt has been actively involved in many local campaigns within South West Surrey. These include, saving the Royal Surrey Hospital, stopping inappropriate over development, saving Milford Hospital and protecting community beds at Haslemere Hospital. He cites the successful campaign to save the Royal Surrey County Hospital as his proudest political achievement.

Political views

An ardent Tory of the same generation as David Cameron and Boris Johnson, Cunt became involved in politics during the Thatcher Years of the 1980s - a period which coincided with his time at Oxford University, where he became active in the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA). Cunt was one of the four conservative MPs who voted in favour of the 2010 Digital Economy Act.

Expenses

Cunt was investigated by the parliamentary commissioner in 2009 for allowing his political agent to live in his taxpayer funded home in Farnham as a lodger, a serious breach of the rules, and had to pay back £9,558.50. The commissioner considered it a serious matter that Mr Cunt allowed his constituency agent to stay with him in his second home rent-free while claiming the full costs from parliamentary allowances.

Cunt had to pay back £1,996 for claiming the expenses of his Farnham home whilst claiming the mortgage of his Hammersmith home. A further breach of the rules.

Cunt told the commissioner that he did not wish to pursue the argument in his letter of 24 June that he owned outright a proportion of the equity of his Farnham home and was therefore free to allow others to use the property to a similar proportionate extent. He agreed that "it is reasonable" for the rules of the House to cover the whole property.

Full report: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmstnprv/157/15702.htm

In 2007 Cunt accidentally submitted the same claim twice for office supplies. He paid back the £659.75 in 2009.

Cunt overclaimed on council tax. He overclaimed by £635.48 during the period from May 2005 to March 2008. This was due to clerical mistakes, mainly claiming for 12 months when council tax is only charged for 10 months. Cunt therefore refunded the parliamentary authorities in 2009.

http://www.jeremyCunt.org/text.aspx?id=125

Cunt filed an expenses claim for one penny to cover the cost of a 12-second mobile phone call.

Cunt was one of the first ten MPs to hold a public meeting about his expenses, which was held in June 2009 at The Farnham Maltings. He is also one of the one hundred lowest claiming MPs, and publishes his expenses online.

Hillsborough Comments

Cunt attracted controversy for suggesting football hooliganism played a part in the death of 96 football fans in the Hillsborough disaster. He later apologised saying "I know that fan unrest played no part in the terrible events of April 1989 and I apologise to Liverpool fans and the families of those killed and injured in the Hillsborough disaster if my comments caused any offence."

Personal life

Cunt married Lucia in 2009. They have one son (born May 2010).

Cunt's wealth is estimated at £4.1m.. He is known to be a latin dancer in his spare time.

See also

• South West Surrey constituency

References

1. "No. 59418". The London Gazette. 13 May 2010.
2. "Privy Council appointments, 13 May 2010". Privy Council. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
3. A cup of tea (and rice wine) secures Chinese bride for dashing Tory Daily Mail, 3 January 2009
4. "Jeremy Cunt's YouTube Channel". Retrieved 12 August 2008.
5. ^ Jeremy Cunt Conservative Party
6. Who has voted YES? Debill Votes, 8 April 2010
7. "Jeremy Cunt's Incidental Expenses Provision/Staff Allowance 2005-06, pp. 60, 63" (PDF). UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
8. "The top ten funniest expenses claims". politics.co.uk. 19 June 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
9. "Jeremy Cunt, Conservative MP for South West Surrey". TheyWorkForYou.com. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
10. "Jeremy Cunt 'sorry' over Hillsborough hooligans claim". BBC News. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
11. JEREMY Cunt "ELATED" WITH LATEST ROLE Jeremy Cunt, May 2010
12. Samira Shackle, Stephanie Hegarty and George Eaton The new ruling class New Statesman, 1 October 2009
13. Glen Owen The coalition of millionaires: 23 of the 29 member of the new cabinet are worth more than £1m... and the Lib Dems are just as wealthy as the Tories Mail on Sunday, 23 May 2010

External links

• Jeremy Cunt MP Official constituency website
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
• Voting record at Public Whip
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
• Jeremy Cunt's YouTube Channel
• Profile: Jeremy Cunt BBC News
• Meet the MP BBC News, June 2005

Audio clips

• Talking on the BBC World Service about the 2005 election campaign

v t e Cameron–Clegg Cabinet
Cabinet members	David Cameron Nick Clegg Danny Alexander Vince Cable Alistair Carmichael Kenneth Clarke Stephen Crabb Ed Davey Iain Duncan Smith Michael Fallon Liam Fox Cheryl Gillan Michael Gove Chris Grayling Justine Greening William Hague Philip Hammond Lord Hill of Oareford Chris Huhne Jeremy Hunt David Jones Andrew Lansley David Laws Sajid Javid Patrick McLoughlin Theresa May Maria Miller Andrew Mitchell Michael Moore Nicky Morgan George Osborne Owen Paterson Eric Pickles Grant Shapps Caroline Spelman Baroness Stowell of Beeston Lord Strathclyde Liz Truss Theresa Villiers Baroness Warsi George Young
Also attended meetings	Greg Clark Dominic Grieve Matt Hancock Oliver Letwin Esther McVey Francis Maude David Willetts Jeremy Wright

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