Peter Bruinvels

Peter Bruinvels

Peter Nigel Edward Bruinvels (born 30 March 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician.

Surrey-born, he was educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead, a public school. Bruinvels held various voluntary offices in the Conservative Party in Dorking and at regional level in South East England.

Never having held elected office, Bruinvels was elected for the constituency of Leicester East previously considered a safe seat for Labour at the 1983 general election, by the narrow margin of 933 votes, at the height of Labour's unpopularity, beating Patricia Hewitt.

A controversial figure of the Conservative right, Bruinvels publicly supported the reintroduction of capital punishment. He was scathing of what he regarded as the left-wing bias of the BBC, which he referred to as the "Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation". [http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/aspidistra/bbcthatcher.php] Bruinvels was also a fierce critic of sex education in schools which he regarded as libertine propaganda. [http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/8B1K5XXAYX188WVW.pdf]

With a slight recovery in Labour's national position at the 1987 general election, Bruinvels was defeated by Keith Vaz of Labour by 1,924 votes after a swing of 6.3%, with the collapsing SDP vote favouring Vaz rather than Bruinvels. He did, however, increase his number of votes from 19,117 to 22,150 despite being defeated.

Bruinvels attempted a return to parliament at the 1997 general election in the Shropshire constituency of The Wrekin, which radical boundary changes had changed from a Labour held marginal seat into a notionally Tory held marginal. However, in the Labour surge of that year Labour's Peter Bradley took the seat on a swing of 11.3%.

Bruinvels is a Governor of the Church Commissioners, a member of the General Synod of the Church of England, a former Director of the Church Army, Senior Inspector of Anglican Schools and is a Lay Canon of Guildford Cathedral. He carries out work for the Royal British Legion as County Field Manager for Surrey. Having trained as a lawyer, he also runs his own public relations and media management company.

External links

* [http://www.journalistdirectory.com/journalist/XAiLA/Peter-Bruinvels]


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