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Nicolas John Gibb (born 3 September 1960) is a British politician serving as
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since October 2022, having previously held the office from 2010 to 2012 and again from 2015 to 2021. He has served at the
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under Conservative Prime Ministers
David Cameron David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. He previously served as Leader o ...
,
Theresa May Theresa Mary May, Lady May (; née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served in David Cameron's cab ...
,
Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as F ...
and
Rishi Sunak Rishi Sunak (; born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party since October 2022. He previously held two Cabinet of ...
. A member of the
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, Gibb has served as
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(MP) for
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since
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. Gibb was born in
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, Buckinghamshire and was educated at the
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at the
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. After unsuccessfully campaigning to become an MP in Stoke-on-Trent Central at the 1992 general election and
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in the
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, Gibb was elected to the
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for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton at the 1997 general election. Gibb was Shadow Minister for Schools from 2005 to 2010. He was appointed as
Minister of State for School Standards The Minister of State for Schools, formerly the Minister of State for School Standards and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School Standards, is a mid-level position in the Department for Education in the British government. The curren ...
by
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David Cameron David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. He previously served as Leader o ...
, serving from May 2010 and September 2012. After serving as a
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for two years, Gibb returned to government as Minister of State for School Reform in July 2014. Gibb was promoted to his previous role as
Minister of State for School Standards The Minister of State for Schools, formerly the Minister of State for School Standards and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School Standards, is a mid-level position in the Department for Education in the British government. The curren ...
after the 2015 general election, replacing his initial successor in the Coalition government,
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. He retained this position during the premiership of
Theresa May Theresa Mary May, Lady May (; née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served in David Cameron's cab ...
. He was retained as Minister of State for School Standards by May's successor,
Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as F ...
; Gibb was removed from the role in September 2021.


Early life

Gibb was born in
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, Buckinghamshire and was educated at
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,
Maidstone Grammar School Maidstone Grammar School (MGS) is a grammar school in Maidstone, England. The school was founded in 1549 after Protector Somerset sold Corpus Christi Hall on behalf of King Edward VI to the people of Maidstone for £200. The Royal Charter fo ...
,
Roundhay School Roundhay is a large suburb in north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Roundhay had a population of 22,546 in 2011. It sits in the Roundhay ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds North East parliamentary constituency. History Etymology Round ...
in
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, and Thornes House School in
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. In an interview regarding his education, Gibb spoke of how he believed Maidstone Grammar School to be the best. "What was good about it was that it was rigorous" he told
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in 2006. "Every lesson was rigorous, even things like music: it was taught in the same way as chemistry." Wakefield, by contrast, was "terrible" due to its lack of rigour. Upon leaving school he took a job as a handyman in a London hotel, spending his evenings in the House of Commons watching late-night debates from the public gallery. He then attended the
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at the
University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charte ...
where he received a
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degree in
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in 1981. Gibb was a member of the
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at a time when they were influenced by radical libertarian ideas. He stood for election to the
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committee in 1981, but only achieved a single vote after accusing the NUS of openly supporting terrorist organisations. After leaving university Gibb was implicated in a scandal involving nomination papers for elections at the 1982 NUS conference in
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, with Gibb accused of forging signatures to get Conservative candidates on to the ballot. Gibb and his brother
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were recruited and trained by the Russian anticommunist organisation the
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. In 1982, Gibb joined
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as a trainee accountant, before working on
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Merom Golan in 1983. In 1984 he joined
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as a chartered accountant until his election to
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. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants ( FCA).


Political career

Gibb worked as an election agent to
Cecil Parkinson Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, (1 September 1931 – 22 January 2016) was a British Conservative Party politician and cabinet minister. A chartered accountant by training, he entered Parliament in November 1970, and was appointed a ...
at the 1987 general election, and was the secretary of the
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Conservative Association in 1988, becoming its chairman the following year. Gibb contested Stoke-on-Trent Central at the 1992 general election but was defeated into second place some 13,420 votes behind the sitting
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MP
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. In 1994, Gibb was selected to contest the Rotherham by-election, caused by the death of James Boyce. He finished in third place, 12,263 votes behind the winner
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. Gibb was selected to stand as the Conservative candidate for the newly created
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seat of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton at the 1997 general election. Gibb won the seat with a majority of 7,321 and has remained the MP there since. He made his
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on 4 July 1997.


Opposition

Shortly after his election, Gibb joined the
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of
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when he was appointed as the spokesman on trade and industry in 1997, before joining the
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select committee later in the year. The following year, in 1998 he rejoined the frontbench as a spokesman on the treasury, moving back to trade and industry in 1999. Gibb was reportedly involved in the faction-fight between supporters of
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and
Michael Portillo Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (; born 26 May 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster and former politician. His broadcast series include railway documentaries such as ''Great British Railway Journeys'' and '' Great Continental Railway Journ ...
, the then
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, as a supporter of Portillo. He was briefly a spokesman on environment, transport and the regions following the 2001 general election but resigned under the leadership of
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, reportedly because he was unhappy at his new role.
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brought him back to the frontbench following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 2005 general election as a spokesman for Education and Young People. Shortly afterwards, the newly elected Conservative Party Leader,
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, promoted Gibb from within the education team to Shadow Minister for Schools.


Government

In the wake of the 2010 general election and the formation of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, Gibb was appointed Minister of State for Schools in the new
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. He was sacked in a reshuffle in September 2012, but returned to the same Department, again as a Minister of State, in July 2014. He was appointed to the Privy Council on 4 November 2016. In July 2020, as
Minister of State for School Standards The Minister of State for Schools, formerly the Minister of State for School Standards and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School Standards, is a mid-level position in the Department for Education in the British government. The curren ...
his department oversaw the controversial derivation of
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grades in place of exams cancelled due to the
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. The system was subsequently described as having the effect of "people who come from areas where people have scored low are assumed to score low this year, and people who come from areas where people have scored high are assumed to score high this year." He was later confronted on the
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programme ''
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'' by a student stating that Gibb had "ruined my life". Gibb responded by saying: "It won't ruin your life, it will be sorted, I can assure you." Gibb was sacked by the Prime Minister
Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as F ...
in the September 2021 reshuffle and returned to the back benches. On 4 February 2022, Gibb called for the Prime Minister to resign over
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. It was reported he had submitted a letter of no confidence in Johnson to the chairman of the
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. Gibbs was re-appointed as Schools Minister on 26 October 2022 by
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.


Views

Gibb is a longstanding advocate of
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as a method of teaching children to read, and is also a supporter of the
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cause, currently being vice-chair of the All Party Motor Neurone Disease Group in parliament. Just days after being appointed as Minister for Schools in 2010, Gibb was criticised by teachers and educationalists after leaked information suggested he had told officials at the Department of Education that he "would rather have a physics graduate from Oxbridge without a PGCE teaching in a school than a physics graduate from one of the rubbish universities with a PGCE". Later in 2012 Gibb was reported to have described attempts to include public speaking classes intending to foster empowerment among public students as "encouraging idle chatter in class". This statement was criticised by researchers at both
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and the
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who observed a link between public speaking classes and improved academic results and economic potential. He supported the Remain campaign in the 2016 Brexit referendum.


Personal life

Gibb is the brother of
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, a former PR consultant and ex-editor of the
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's political programmes, ''
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'' and (in an executive capacity) '' This Week'', who was announced as Director of Communications for Prime Minister
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in July 2017. In May 2015, Gibb
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as
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and announced his engagement to Michael Simmonds, the chief executive of the
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polling organisation. Having been together for 29 years they married in 2015.


Publications

* ''Forgotten Closed Shop: Case for Voluntary Membership of Student Unions'' by Nicholas Gibb and David Neil-Smith, 1985, Cleveland Press * ''Simplifying Taxes'' by Nick Gibb, 1987 * ''Duty to Repeal'' by Nick Gibb, 1989, Adam Smith Institute * ''Bucking the Market'' by Nick Gibb, 1990 * ''Maintaining Momentum'' by Nick Gibb, 1992


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References


External links


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Conservative Party *
Nick Gibb: GCSE Results
Department for Education official channel, YouTube * John Rentou
An Education - John Rentoul looks at the background and political beliefs of Nick Gibb, Minister of State for Schools
Ethos Journal (Archived) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibb, Nick 1960 births Living people Alumni of the College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies People educated at Bedford Modern School People educated at Maidstone Grammar School People educated at Roundhay School People from Amersham People from Littlehampton UK MPs 1997–2001 UK MPs 2001–2005 UK MPs 2005–2010 UK MPs 2010–2015 UK MPs 2015–2017 UK MPs 2017–2019 UK MPs 2019–present Gay politicians LGBT politicians from England Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom LGBT members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom