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John Philip Glen (born 1 April 1974){{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U251110 |title=Who's Who |work=ukwhoswho.com}}{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/43043.stm

|title=John Glen MP

|publisher=BBC |work=BBC Democracy Live |access-date=25 July 2010}} is a British politician and former management consultant who served in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2022 to 2023, and as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2023 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Salisbury in Wiltshire since 2010.

Early life and career

John Glen was born in Bath on 1 April 1974, and was brought up in a family horticultural business in rural Wiltshire. He was privately educated at King Edward's School, Bath,{{cite web|url=https://www.bathecho.co.uk/news/business/bath-business-partnership-launch-first-event-guest-speaker-john-glen-mp-66905/|title=Bath Business Partnership launch first event with guest speaker John Glen MP|date=11 May 2016}} where he was head boy, and Mansfield College, Oxford, where he read modern history and was elected president of Mansfield College JCR. He was the first person in his family to go to university.

After graduating from Oxford, Glen helped with the unsuccessful campaign to get the Conservative candidate, Michael Bates, elected in the constituency of Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland at the 1997 general election.{{Cite web |title=John Glen MP |url=https://www.wiltshireconservatives.com/people/john-glen-mp |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=Wiltshire |language=en}} Following the election of a Labour government in 1997, he joined the strategy practice of Accenture, a large management consultancy firm.{{Cite web |last=Silvester |first=Andy |date=2021-11-16 |title=No money, no problem: City minister John Glen gives up top-up salary |url=https://www.cityam.com/no-money-no-problem-city-minister-john-glen-gives-up-top-up-salary/ |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=CityAM |language=en-GB}} Whilst there he worked on projects for Glaxo Wellcome, BP and the Post Office.

In 2000, Glen went to work for William Hague, who was then leader of the Conservative Party. In his role as head of the political section of the Conservative Research Department, he helped prepare Hague for Prime Minister's Question Time and briefed the Shadow Cabinet for media appearances.{{Cite web |last=Ricketts |first=Andy |title=John Glen appointed junior minister at DCMS |url=https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/article/1436439 |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=www.thirdsector.co.uk |language=en}}

At the 2001 general election, Glen stood in Plymouth Devonport, coming second with 27.1% of the vote behind the incumbent Labour MP David Jamieson.{{cite web |title=Election Data 2001 |url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2001ob.txt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054450/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2001ob.txt |archive-date=15 October 2011 |access-date=18 October 2015 |publisher=Electoral Calculus}}[http://www.election.demon.co.uk/1997EB2.html Election results, 1997 – 2001] Following the election, he took an MBA at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,{{cite web|url=http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/about/newsitem-3-36|title=Fitzwilliam's MPs|year=2010|publisher=Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge|access-date=22 December 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514134505/http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/about/newsitem-3-36|archive-date=14 May 2011|df=dmy-all}} and worked in the oil and gas industries in the UK and in the United States.{{Cite web |title=John Glen MP – Who is he? |url=https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/john-glen/ |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=Politics.co.uk |language=en-US}}

Early in 2004, he returned to the Conservative Party to work as deputy director of the Conservative Research Department in the run-up to the 2005 general election. He then became director of the department and set up the secretariat for the policy review that was established after David Cameron became party leader. He returned to business in 2006, managing his firm's relationship with the World Economic Forum. He became a magistrate (JP) at Horseferry Road, Westminster in 2006.

Parliamentary career

File:John Glen MP.jpg

Glen was elected as MP for Salisbury at the 2010 general election with 49.2% of the vote and a majority of 5,966.{{cite web |title=Election Data 2010 |url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2010.txt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726162034/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2010.txt |archive-date=26 July 2013 |access-date=17 October 2015 |publisher=Electoral Calculus}}{{cite news |date=7 May 2010 |title=Election 2010: Salisbury |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/election2010/results/constituency/d86.stm |access-date=9 May 2010 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

In December 2010, Glen was criticised for being one of eight MPs claiming public expenses to rent houses or pay for hotel rooms in London, despite already owning homes in the capital that the MPs rented out to provide themselves with additional income. The practice was entirely legal.{{cite news|title=MPs who own London homes still claim rent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-who-own-london-homes-still-claim-rent-2151575.html|work=Independent|access-date=23 September 2018|date=5 December 2010}}

Glen was criticised in April 2012 by campaigners for employing an intern from a charity that had recently sponsored an event where a "cure" for homosexuality was discussed. Glen argued that the views expressed at the conference were those of one specific lecturer and were not advocated by the charity more generally.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17810958|work=BBC News|title=MP John Glen in 'gay cure' charity row|date=23 April 2012|access-date=23 September 2018}}

In the September 2012 reshuffle, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

On 31 January 2013, Glen published a paper titled "Completing the Reform, Freeing the Universities" as a member of the Free Enterprise Group of MPs.{{cite web|url=http://www.freeenterprise.org.uk/content/completing-reform-freeing-universities-1-february-2013|title=Completing the reform, freeing the universities – 1 February 2013|work=freeenterprise.org.uk|access-date=18 February 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130423192550/http://www.freeenterprise.org.uk/content/completing-reform-freeing-universities-1-february-2013|archive-date=23 April 2013|url-status=dead}} The paper advocated encouraging universities to build up endowments, which could then replace income from grants; reforms to the tuition fee cap towards "total course costs" instead of per-year caps, and allowing fee differentials by subject group; changes to the way in which research funding is allocated; and administrative savings by the Research Councils and the Office of Fair Access. He wrote an op-ed for the Daily Telegraph about the policies advocated in the paper, titled "Tuition fees cannot be the last reform of university funding".[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/9840069/Tuition-fees-cannot-be-the-last-reform-of-university-funding.html Tuition fees cannot be the last reform of university funding], Daily Telegraph. 31 January 2013.

In June 2013, Glen joined the Delete Blood Cancer register at an event in parliament. Despite the 1 in 1200 chance of being matched with a cancer sufferer, less than a year later he had been matched with a blood cancer patient. In January 2015, Glen donated his blood stem cells at The London Clinic, enabling the patient to be treated.{{cite web|url=http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/journalnewsindex/11753817.One_in_a_million_chance__MP_s_lifesaving_stem_cell_donation/|title=One in a million chance: MP's lifesaving stem cell donation|date=28 January 2015|work=Salisbury Journal}}{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-31007343 | work=BBC News | title=Salisbury MP John Glen in blood stem cell donation | date=28 January 2015}}

In 2014, he sat on the Downing Street Policy Board with responsibility for constitutional affairs.{{cite web|url=http://www.yourvalleynews.co.uk/frontpage-news/fair-deal-for-whole-of-uk/|title=Fair deal for whole of UK|work=Your Valley News}} In a 2014 survey by a non-campaigning website that enables constituents to contact their MP, Glen was ranked as the second most responsive MP.{{cite web|url=http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/11269985.John_Glen_will_get_back_to_you__survey_says/|title=John Glen will get back to you, survey says|date=11 June 2014|work=Salisbury Journal}} In 2015 he completed an MA in international security and strategy, with distinction, at King's College London through the Royal College of Defence Studies.{{cite web|url=http://www.spirefm.co.uk/news/local-news/1819864/masters-degree-for-salisburys-mp/|title=Masters degree for Salisbury's MP!|website=Spire FM|access-date=17 February 2016|date=10 December 2015}}

At the 2015 general election, Glen was re-elected as MP for Sailsbury with an increased vote share of 55.6% and an increased majority of 20,421.{{Cite web |title=Salisbury | Parliamentary on Thursday 7 May 2015 | Wiltshire Council |url=https://elections.wiltshire.gov.uk/Home/Division/1214 |website=elections.wiltshire.gov.uk}}{{cite web |title=Election Data 2015 |url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017112223/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt |archive-date=17 October 2015 |access-date=17 October 2015 |publisher=Electoral Calculus}} Subsequently, he was made PPS to Business Secretary Sajid Javid.{{cite web|url=http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/12966778.Government_role_for_Glen/|title=Government role for Glen|date=22 May 2015|work=Salisbury Journal}}

In December 2015 Glen completed an MA in international security and strategy, with distinction, at King's College London through the Royal College of Defence Studies.

Despite describing himself as a Eurosceptic, Glen was a "reluctant Remainer" prior to the 2016 referendum as he did not feel it was the right time for the UK to leave the European Union.{{cite news|last1=Goodenough|first1=Tom|title=Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence?|url=http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/which-tory-mps-back-brexit-who-doesnt-and-who-is-still-on-the-fence/|access-date=11 October 2016|work=The Spectator|date=16 February 2016|archive-date=22 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022111657/http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/which-tory-mps-back-brexit-who-doesnt-and-who-is-still-on-the-fence/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.johnglen.org.uk/news/despite-my-scepticism-i-will-be-reluctantly-voting-remain|title=Despite my scepticism, I will be reluctantly voting to remain|date=20 June 2016|website=John Glen}}

Following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister in July 2016, Glen was made PPS to Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond.{{Cite tweet |user=JohnGlenUK |number=755273590434631680 |date=19 July 2016 |title=Delighted to have been appointed PPS to the Chancellor, Philip Hammond ... |author=John Glen}}

File:John Glen and the Driffield Hoard (38815486122).jpg for Arts, Heritage and Tourism, with the Driffield Hoard]]

At the snap 2017 general election, Glen was again re-elected, with an increased vote share of 58.1% and a decreased majority of 17,333.{{cite web |title=Parliamentary elections 2017 |url=http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/elections-general-2017 |access-date=13 May 2017 |website=Wiltshire Council |archive-date=12 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512144430/http://wiltshire.gov.uk/elections-general-2017 |url-status=dead }} After the election, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/karen-bradley-welcomes-dcms-ministers|title=Karen Bradley welcomes DCMS Ministers|access-date=2017-06-17}}

In the House of Commons he has sat on the Work and Pensions Committee, the Defence Committee and the Committees on Arms Export Controls (formerly Quadripartite Committee).{{cite web|title=John Glen|url=https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/john-glen/4051|website=Parliament UK|access-date=23 September 2018}} He also sits on a number of All-party parliamentary groups (APPGs). He is the chair of the APPG on Global Uncertainties, which exists to inform parliamentarians of the activities of the UK Research Councils in response to global security challenges.{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/global-uncertainties.htm|title=House of Commons – Register of All-Party Groups as at 30 March 2015: Global Uncertainties|work=parliament.uk}} He is vice-chair of the Carpet Industry APPG.{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/carpet-industry.htm|title=House of Commons – Register of All-Party Groups as at 30 March 2015: Carpet Industry|work=parliament.uk}}

Glen played a significant contributory role{{cite news|url=http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/11688363.print/|title=Trust's backing for plans to get rid of food poverty|date=25 December 2014|work=salisburyjournal.co.uk}} in the APPG Hunger and Food Poverty's inquiry, Feeding Britain.{{cite web|url=http://foodpovertyinquiry.org/|title=FoodPovertyInquiry.org}} Additionally, he is secretary for the British Council APPG which took him on a visit to Kabul, and a member of APPG Egypt and APPG Parents and Families.{{cite web|url=http://johnglenmp.com/westminster/appgs/|title=John Glen MP – Working hard for the people of Salisbury and South Wiltshire}} His website lists his further APPG memberships as: Archives and History, British Council (Appointed Secretary in 2011), British-Maldives Parliamentary Group, Complex Needs and Dual Diagnosis, Constitution, Parliament and Citizenship, Historic Churches, Malaysia, Nuclear Energy, Runaway and Missing Children and Adults, Suicide and Self Harm Prevention, and Voice UK.

File:Official portrait of John Glen MP.jpg

Glen was again re-elected at the 2019 general election, with a decreased vote share of 56.4% and an increased majority of 19,736.{{Cite web |title=General Election 12 December 2019 – Wiltshire Council |url=http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/elections-general |access-date=2019-11-16 |website=www.wiltshire.gov.uk |archive-date=4 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504055949/http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/elections-general |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=UK election results live: Boris Johnson returned as PM after Tory majority confirmed |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/dec/12/uk-general-election-2019-full-results-live-labour-conservatives-tories |access-date=2019-12-13 |website=www.theguardian.com}}

On 2 September 2021 he became the longest serving Economic Secretary to the Treasury since the creation of the post in 1947.{{cite news |last1=Wickham |first1=Alex |title=POLITICO London Playbook: Breaking ... Raab in Doha — Flying blind — Get a move on, JCVI |url=https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/london-playbook/politico-london-playbook-breaking-raab-in-doha-flying-blind-get-a-move-on-jcvi/ |access-date=9 September 2021 |work=Politico |date=2 September 2021}}

On 6 July 2022, Glen resigned as Economic Secretary to the Treasury during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Samuel |title=Boris Johnson on brink as more resignations turn up heat on PM |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/uk-world-news/boris-johnson-brink-even-more-24412206 |access-date=6 July 2022 |work=Coventry Telegraph |date=6 July 2022 |language=en}}

On 13 November 2023, Glen was appointed the Paymaster General by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a cabinet reshuffle.{{Cite news |last=Ambrose |first=Tom |last2=Sparrow |first2=Andrew |last3=Ambrose (now) |first3=Tom |last4=Sparrow (earlier) |first4=Andrew |date=2023-11-13 |title=David Cameron denies lobbying row should rule out return; Esther McVey made minister without portfolio – UK reshuffle live |language=en-GB |work=the Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/13/suella-braverman-rishi-sunak-cabinet-reshuffle-conservatives-uk-politics-latest |access-date=2023-11-13 |issn=0261-3077}} Soon after he was re-elected for Salisbury at the July 2024 general election, Sunak appointed him as Shadow Paymaster General.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-08 |title=Sunak names interim shadow cabinet as David Cameron resigns |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgm3g37klko |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

Political views

Tim Montgomerie, editor of ConservativeHome,{{cite web|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Tim-Montgomerie|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001150621/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Tim-Montgomerie|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 October 2012|title=Tim Montgomerie – The Times|website=The Times }} has described John Glen as a "full spectrum Conservative" – meaning one who is Eurosceptic and supportive of low taxation, but also concerned with social issues and the environment.I'm backing John Glen for Salisbury [http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/2010/01/im-backing-john-glen-for-salisbury.html]Conservative Home

=Social issues=

Glen took part in the APPG on Hunger and Food Poverty inquiry, and argued in 2014 that prosperity needs to be shared, and that the Department for Work and Pensions should improve benefit payment reliability to prevent the need for foodbank use.{{cite web|url=http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2014/12/john-glen-mp-how-to-make-food-banks-even-more-effective.html|title=John Glen MP: How to make food banks even more effective|date=8 December 2014|work=Conservative Home}} Trussell Trust chairman Chris Mould and CEO David McAuley said that Glen "been very supportive of The Trussell Trust and has played an important role as a key member of the APPG Inquiry Panel". He welcomed the rise in the minimum wage and supports employers paying the living wage.{{cite news|url=http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/11814936.Old_Sarum_business_named_and_shamed_for_not_paying_minimum_wage/|title=Old Sarum business named and shamed for not paying minimum wage|date=24 February 2015|work=Salisbury Journal}}

=Ethics and religion=

He is an advocate for religious education.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/JohnGlenMP/status/560853714232414208|title=John Glen on Twitter|work=Twitter}} On 5 February 2013, he voted against allowing same-sex couples to marry due to his Christian beliefs. This decision was criticised by Nick Holtam, the Bishop of Salisbury at the time.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/church-split-as-senior-bishop-comes-out-in-favour-of-gay-marriage-kdppsgw62jn|title=Church split as senior bishop comes out in favour of gay marriage|access-date=8 March 2018}} On anti-mitochondrial donation therapy, Glen described himself as "instinctively cautious about technologies that, while noble in intent, could potentially open the door to the development of 'genetically modified babies'".{{cite web|url=http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/view_from_the_commons/john_glen/11774448.Unresolved_issues_on____three_parent_children___/|title=Unresolved issues on 'three parent children'|date=6 February 2015|work=Salisbury Journal}} In 2016, he was a trustee and chairman of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, an organisation within the Conservative party.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=CCF Trustees|url=http://www.christian-conservatives.org.uk/people/33|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808115507/http://www.christian-conservatives.org.uk/people/33|archive-date=8 August 2016|website=Conservative Christian Fellowship|via=Internet Archive}}

References

External links

{{Official website}}{{UK MP links |parliament=john-glen/4051 |publicwhip=John_Glen |theywork=john_glen}}
[https://www.conservatives.com/OurTeam/Members_of_Parliament/Glen_John.aspx UK Conservative Party profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211005438/https://www.conservatives.com/OurTeam/Members_of_Parliament/Glen_John.aspx |date=11 February 2015 }}

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