Christopher Roy Robertshaw is an English-born Manx politician who served as

Member of the House of Keys The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council. History The oldest known reference to the name is in a document of 1417, written in ...

for

Douglas East Douglas East is a House of Keys constituency in Douglas, Isle of Man. It elects 2 MHKs. Since the 2021 local elections the constituency's area has been adopted for Douglas East (ward) which replaced most of Victoria and Derby wards. The ward ...

until August 2021. He previously served as Deputy Speaker of the

House of Keys The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council. History The oldest known reference to the name is in a document of 1417, written in ...

, Minister of Social Care, Minister for Community, Culture and Leisure and Minister for Policy and Reform.

Early life

Robertshaw was born in 1948 in Chester, and is married with two children and five grandchildren. He was schooled in a Roman Catholic seminary and served in the

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in Libya, Cyprus, Germany, England and Norway. In 2005 he retired as Managing Director, Company Secretary and Registrar of Sefton Hotel Plc after a 35-year career in tourism. He is currently a director of the charity Kemmyrk and a member of the Douglas Regeneration Committee, of the Institute of Hospitality and of the

Positive Action Group The Positive Action Group (PAG) ( gv, Possan Jantys Jarrooagh) is a political pressure group formed on the Isle of Man in November 2006. They see that there should be three ‘core principles’ applying to the system of Government in the Isle of ...

Political career

In 2010, he replaced

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as MHK for

in a by-election, and was re-elected at the 2011 and 2016 general elections. In 2015, he resigned as Minister for Policy and Reform after less than a year in post, to be replaced by

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. Among other issues, he has campaigned for the island's government to become a single legal entity (at present each department has its own legal identity). Following re-election in 2016, Robertshaw stated publicly that he would not contest the next election in 2021.

Governmental positions

* Minister for Policy and Reform, 2014-2015 * Minister of Social Care, 2011–2014

Election results

2016

2011

2010

2006

References

1948 births Living people Members of the House of Keys 2011–2016 Members of the House of Keys 2016–2021 {{IsleofMan-politician-stub