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John Charles Fuller, Baron Fuller, (born 6 June 1968) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Leader of
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between May 2007 and May 2024. He was appointed a member of the
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in February 2024.


Early life and family

Fuller was born on 6 June 1968 in
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, Norfolk, to Michael John Fuller and June Renee Fuller. His grandfather Stanley Fuller represented Great Britain in the men's 100m, 200m and relay at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. On 1 April 1995, John Fuller married Philippa Claire Speight of
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, Hertfordshire. They have two daughters.


Education

Fuller attended Cliff Park Junior School (1973–1978) in
Gorleston-on-Sea Gorleston-on-Sea (), historically and colloquially known as Gorleston, is a seaside town in the borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. It lies to the South of Great Yarmouth, on the opposite side of the mouth of the River Yare. Historic ...
, Norfolk and later Brandeston Hall Preparatory School (1978–1981] and
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981–1986) in Suffolk. At the University of Reading">Suffolk.html" ;"title="981–1986) in Suffolk">981–1986) in Suffolk. At the University of Reading (1987–1990) he studied BSc Agriculture, graduating with First Class Honours in 1990.


Commercial career

Fuller joined J & H Bunn Ltd, a private fertiliser manufacturing company in Great Yarmouth in May 1991. In 1995 he was awarded a Nuffield Scholarship to study precision farming concepts, investigating emerging technologies in Global Positioning System">GPS The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta 31. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geol ...
, satellite imagery and the Internet and their application to agriculture. From 1998 to 2011, he was a director of Bunn until it was sold to US-based Koch Industries in March 2011. Fuller became a founding director and chairman of liquid fertiliser manufacturer Brineflow Ltd in 2011. In the same year, he became a non-executive director of Sentry Ltd, a UK farm management company. Between 2007 and 2017 he served as a governor of Langley School, near
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in Norfolk.


Political career

In May 2003 Fuller was elected to
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as the Conservative Party member for Brooke Ward, encompassing the villages of Brooke, Howe, Norfolk, Seething, Kirstead,
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,
Bergh Apton Bergh Apton is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England, 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Norwich just south of the A146 road, A146 between Yelverton, Norfolk, Yelverton and Thurton. According to the Unite ...
and from 2019 boundary changes with
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and Yelverton. In 2004 he became Leader of the Opposition Conservative Group on South Norfolk Council. At the
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, he became leader of South Norfolk Council. That election saw the largest swing from the Liberal Democrats to the Conservatives in that district council electoral cycle with 20 seats falling from the Liberal Democrats to the Conservative Party, In the local government elections held successively in May
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,
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,
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, and in 2023, he led local Conservatives to elected majorities, and retained leadership of the council. On 22 February 2024, he announced he would be relinquishing his Leadership position at the forthcoming Annual Council Meeting having been awarded a Life Peerage. He stepped down as Leader of the council on 20 May 2024 after 17 years in post and was succeeded by Cllr Daniel Elmer. As council leader, he chaired the Greater Norwich Local Plan (2010–2011), the Greater Norwich Growth Board, and Norfolk Public Sector Leaders Board (2009–2010, 2015–2016 and 2023–2024). He was a member of the
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(2009–2010), and the Norfolk Pension Fund. He has served as a Director on the
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's as deputy Leader of the Conservative Group of Councillors 2019–2023. In 2013 he was appointed to the Local Government Pension Scheme Advisory Board and chaired the Local Government Pension Committee from 2019 to 2023. He served on the Fire Services Pensions Scheme Advisory Board (2014–2018). In 2015, he was appointed by
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, Housing Minister, as a member of the CIL Review to advise on housing infrastructure finance. In 2017, Fuller became the chairman of the
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, the special interest group for District Councils in England. He served in that position for four years until October 2021, a period which included helping coordinate the local COVID-19 pandemic response amongst English District Councils. In 2019, he was elected by fellow Conservative council leaders to be the deputy leader of the Conservative Party in Local Government and became a director and deputy vice-chairman of the
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. His term of office expired in July 2023. Fuller was appointed
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(OBE) in the
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for Public and Political service. He was nominated by Prime Minister
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for a
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age and was created ''Baron Fuller, of
Gorleston-on-Sea Gorleston-on-Sea (), historically and colloquially known as Gorleston, is a seaside town in the borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. It lies to the South of Great Yarmouth, on the opposite side of the mouth of the River Yare. Historic ...
in the County of
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'', on 8 March 2024. He took his seat in the House of Lords on 12 March 2024


References

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