Party:
Conservative

Constituency:
Arundel & South Downs

Date of birth:
16 June 1948

Telephone:
020 7219 3000

Address:
The House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA

Political profile:
Howard Flight was first elected to the Commons for this very safe Conservative seat in 1997, but had been active in Tory politics for many years.

He was a personal adviser to Norman Tebbit during the latter's time at the Department of Trade and Industry.

He shares many of his mentor's Eurosceptic views and has said that he would never vote in favour of a single European currency.

Mr Flight is a banker by profession and has a love for and thorough understanding of the financial world - attributes which gained him a place on the Conservative's front bench Treasury team.

He was promoted from junior Treasury spokesman to shadow chief secretary to the Treasury.

But Michael Howard in September 2004 made him the party's "special envoy" to the City of London.

Firmly on the economic right, he supports radical cuts to the size of the state and the widescale privatisation of social services.

He is also a supporter of the Conservative Family Campaign and the Freedom Association.

TOP THREE PARTIES AT A GLANCE
Conservative		52.2%
Liberal Democrat		22.4%
Labour		20.7%

IN DETAIL
Name	Party	Votes	%
Howard Flight	Conservative	23,969	52.2
Derek Deedman	Liberal Democrat	10,265	22.4
Charles Taylor	Labour	9,488	20.7
Henry Perrin	UK Independence Party	2,167	4.7
Majority		13,704
Turnout		64.7%

POLITICAL MAKE UP OF SOUTH EAST