Michael Fallon

Michael Cathel Fallon{{cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/cm010620/ml010620.htm |title=Alphabetical List of Members |publisher=UK Parliament |date=20 June 2001 |access-date=6 July 2024}} was born in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. His father was an Irish-born surgeon, Dr Martin Fallon, who was educated in Dublin and became a high-ranking medical officer in the British Army. Dr Fallon received the OBE for services to the wounded including at Arnhem.{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/bridge-of-sighs-frank-mcnally-on-the-contrasting-role-of-two-dubliners-in-an-infamous-battle-of-the-second-world-war-1.4021341 |title=Bridge of Sighs – Frank McNally on the contrasting role of two Dubliners in an infamous battle of the second World War |work=The Irish Times |date=2019-09-17 |access-date=3 February 2020 |archive-date=10 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110174719/https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/bridge-of-sighs-frank-mcnally-on-the-contrasting-role-of-two-dubliners-in-an-infamous-battle-of-the-second-world-war-1.4021341 |url-status=live }} Michael Fallon was educated at Craigflower Preparatory School near Dunfermline and at Epsom College, a private boys' school in Surrey. He then read Classics and Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, graduating in 1974 with a Master of Arts (MA Hons) degree.

As a student, Fallon was active in the European Movement and the "Yes" youth campaign in the 1975 referendum. After university he joined the Conservative Research Department, working first for Lord Carrington in the House of Lords until 1977 and then as European desk officer until 1979. He became research assistant to Baroness Elles in 1979, around the time that she became an MEP.

He was selected as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Darlington in July 1982, and fought the Darlington by-election on 24 March 1983, which was held after the Labour MP Ted Fletcher had died. Although Fallon lost to Labour's Ossie O'Brien by 2,412 votes, he defeated O'Brien 77 days later by 3,438 votes in the 1983 general election.

Fallon was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Energy Cecil Parkinson following the 1987 general election, and in 1988 joined the government of Margaret Thatcher as an Assistant Whip, becoming a Lord Commissioner to the Treasury in 1990. Fallon, alongside Michael Portillo and Michael Forsyth, visited Thatcher on the eve of her resignation in a last-ditch and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to persuade her to reconsider her decision.[http://margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=109189 "Extract from Margaret Thatcher The Downing Street Years"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428163613/http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=109189 |date=28 April 2016 }}, Margaret Thatcher Foundation, London 1993, Retrieved on 18 April 2016

Thatcher appointed Fallon Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Education and Science in July 1990, a position he continued to hold under the new premiership of John Major. In this office Fallon headed legislation that led to the local management of schools,{{cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2010-09-09b.571.0&s=speaker%3A10194#g571.2|title=Secondary Schooling|date=9 September 2010|work=They Work for You|access-date=18 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107112621/https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2010-09-09b.571.0&s=speaker:10194#g571.2|archive-date=7 November 2017|url-status=live}} which among other changes gave schools a greater degree of financial independence, including control of their own bank accounts and cheque books.{{cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1991-07-19a.641.4&s=michael+fallon+cheque+book#g648.3|title=Schools: 19 July 1991|date=19 July 1991|work=They Work for You|access-date=18 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107060242/https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1991-07-19a.641.4&s=michael+fallon+cheque+book#g648.3|archive-date=7 November 2017|url-status=live}} He remained in that office until the 1992 general election, when he lost his seat at Darlington to Labour's Alan Milburn by a margin of 2,798 votes.

Fallon was selected to stand in the safe Conservative seat of Sevenoaks, after the sitting member, Mark Wolfson, decided not to stand again at the 1997 general election. At that election he held Sevenoaks with a substantially reduced majority.

Soon after his return to parliament, Fallon was appointed by William Hague as Opposition Spokesman for Trade and Industry and then as Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury, but in October 1998 he resigned from the front bench, owing to ill health, remaining on the backbenches until Hague appointed him as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party.

From 1999 he was a member of the Treasury Select Committee and chairman of its Sub-Committee (2001–10). He also served on the executive committee of the 1922 Committee between 2005 and 2007.

In September 2012, David Cameron appointed Fallon as Minister for Business and Enterprise and he also became a Privy Councillor.{{cite news |last=Watt |first=Holly |date=5 September 2012 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9520858/Michael-Fallon-becomes-business-minister.html |title=Michael Fallon becomes business minister |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027044319/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9520858/Michael-Fallon-becomes-business-minister.html |archive-date=27 October 2014 |url-status=live }}

Fallon has been a director at Tullett Prebon, a leading brokerage firm in the City of London, and was one of the biggest supporters of the privatisation of the Royal Mail.{{cite web|url = https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2013-02-07a.411.8|title = Debate on Royal Mail Privatisation|access-date = 26 October 2014|website = TheyWorkForYou|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141027005448/http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2013-02-07a.411.8|archive-date = 27 October 2014|url-status = live}}

In January 2014, Fallon was appointed as Minister for Portsmouth.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-25753398|title=Minister for Portsmouth to be Michael Fallon|work=BBC News|access-date=26 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141002214710/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-25753398|archive-date=2 October 2014|url-status=live}} Six months later, on 15 July 2014, Cameron promoted him to the Cabinet, as Secretary of State for Defence.

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In February 2016, the week after a leaked United Nations report had found the Saudi-led coalition guilty of conducting "widespread and systematic" air strikes against civilians in Yemen{{Cite news|title = UN report into Saudi-led strikes in Yemen raises questions over UK role|url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/27/un-report-into-saudi-led-strikes-in-yemen-raises-questions-over-uk-role|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 27 January 2016|access-date = 3 February 2016|language = en-GB|first = Ewen|last = MacAskill|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160202230721/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/27/un-report-into-saudi-led-strikes-in-yemen-raises-questions-over-uk-role|archive-date = 2 February 2016|url-status = live}} – including camps for internally displaced people, weddings, schools, hospitals, religious centers, vehicles and markets{{cite news|title = Saudi Coalition in Yemen Announces Inquiry Into Bombings|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/world/middleeast/saudi-coalition-in-yemen-announces-inquiry-into-bombings.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 31 January 2016|access-date = 3 February 2016|first = Rick|last = Gladstone|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160204051200/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/world/middleeast/saudi-coalition-in-yemen-announces-inquiry-into-bombings.html|archive-date = 4 February 2016|url-status = live}} – and the same day the International Development Select Committee had said that the UK should end all arms exports to Saudi Arabia because of ongoing, large-scale human rights violations by the Kingdom's armed forces in Yemen, Fallon was criticised for attending a £450-a-head dinner for an arms-industry trade-body.{{Cite news |last=Stone |first=Jon |date=3 February 2016 |title=Ministers wined-and-dined by arms trade hours after MPs demand ban on selling weapons to Saudi Arabia |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ministers-wined-and-dined-by-arms-trade-hours-after-mps-demand-ban-on-selling-weapons-to-saudi-a6850751.html |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=3 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203174747/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ministers-wined-and-dined-by-arms-trade-hours-after-mps-demand-ban-on-selling-weapons-to-saudi-a6850751.html |archive-date=3 February 2016 |url-status=live }}

In December 2016, Fallon admitted that UK-supplied internationally banned cluster munitions had been used in Saudi Arabia's bombing campaign in Yemen.{{cite news |last=Cowburn |first=Ashley |date=19 December 2016 |title=British manufactured cluster bombs have been used in Yemen by Saudi Arabia, Michael Fallon admits |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-fallon-confirms-british-made-cluster-bombs-have-been-used-by-saudis-in-yemen-conflict-a7485106.html |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=9 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110063135/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-fallon-confirms-british-made-cluster-bombs-have-been-used-by-saudis-in-yemen-conflict-a7485106.html |archive-date=10 November 2017 |url-status=live }}

In April 2017, Fallon confirmed that the UK would use its nuclear weapons in a "pre-emptive initial strike" in "the most extreme circumstances" on BBC Radio's Today programme.{{cite news |last=Merrick |first=Rob |date=24 April 2017 |title=Theresa May would fire UK's nuclear weapons as a 'first strike', says Defence Secretary Michael Fallon |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-nuclear-weapons-first-strike-michael-fallon-general-election-jeremy-corbyn-trident-a7698621.html |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=24 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425031826/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-nuclear-weapons-first-strike-michael-fallon-general-election-jeremy-corbyn-trident-a7698621.html |archive-date=25 April 2017 |url-status=live }}

In 2017, Fallon warned that Russia's Zapad 2017 exercise in Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast was "designed to provoke us". Fallon falsely claimed that number of Russian troops taking part in exercise could reach 100,000.{{cite news |title=Russia was the target of Nato's own fake news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/russia-zapad-2017-putin-west-fake-news-us-world-war-three-ukraine-belarus-nato-a7961856.html |work=The Independent |date=22 September 2017 |access-date=9 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930234354/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/russia-zapad-2017-putin-west-fake-news-us-world-war-three-ukraine-belarus-nato-a7961856.html |archive-date=30 September 2019 |url-status=live }}

In an interview in The Daily Telegraph in 2016, before the European Union (EU) membership referendum, Fallon described himself as Eurosceptic and critical of many aspects of the EU, but said that he wanted Britain to remain in the EU, in the face of multiple threats from Russia's president Vladimir Putin, crime, and international terrorism.{{cite news |author= |date=20 February 2016 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/12166767/Strength-in-numbers-Michael-Fallon-backs-staying-with-Europe.html |title=Strength in numbers: Michael Fallon backs staying with Europe |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=1 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107074216/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/12166767/Strength-in-numbers-Michael-Fallon-backs-staying-with-Europe.html |archive-date=7 November 2017 |url-status=live }}

During the run-up to the 2015 general election, Fallon wrote an article in The Times saying that Ed Miliband had stabbed his brother David Miliband in the back to become Labour leader and he would also stab Britain in the back to become prime minister. Fallon subsequently declined the opportunity to describe Miliband as a decent person and his comments embarrassed some Conservative supporters. Miliband gave a response, saying that Fallon had fallen below his usual standards and demeaned himself, which the New Statesman asserted was dignified, contrasting with Fallon's counter-productive personal attack.{{cite news |last=Eaton |first=George |date=9 April 2015 |title=Michael Fallon's attack backfires, leaving Miliband to emerge as the decent man |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/04/fallons-attack-backfires-miliband-emerges-decent-man |newspaper=New Statesman |author-link=George Eaton (journalist) |access-date=20 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412020804/http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/04/fallons-attack-backfires-miliband-emerges-decent-man |archive-date=12 April 2015 |url-status=live }}

According to The Daily Telegraph Fallon, Deputy Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, claimed for mortgage repayments on his Westminster flat in their entirety. MPs are only allowed to claim for interest charges.{{cite news |last=Swaine |first=Jon |date=21 May 2009 |title=MPs' expenses: Michael Fallon claimed £8,300 too much in mortgage expenses |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5358001/MPs-expenses-Michael-Fallon-claimed-8300-too-much-in-mortgage-expenses.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027022509/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5358001/MPs-expenses-Michael-Fallon-claimed-8300-too-much-in-mortgage-expenses.html |archive-date=27 October 2014 |url-status=live }}

Between 2002 and 2004, Fallon regularly claimed £1,255 per month in capital repayments and interest, rather than the £700–£800 for the interest component alone. After his error was noticed by staff at the Commons Fees Office in September 2004, he asked: "Why has no one brought this to my attention before?" He repaid £2,200 of this over-claim, but was allowed to offset the remaining £6,100 against his allowance. After realising they had failed to notice the excessive claims, Commons staff reportedly suggested Fallon submit fresh claims which would "reassign" the surplus payments to other costs he had legitimately incurred.

{{See also|Weinstein effect}}

In late October 2017 it was reported that Fallon had repeatedly and inappropriately touched journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer's knee during a dinner in 2002.{{cite news|last=Rayner|first=Gordon|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/31/defence-secretary-sir-michael-fallon-admits-touching-female/|title=Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon admits touching female radio presenter's knee at a dinner|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=31 October 2017|access-date=1 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102085206/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/31/defence-secretary-sir-michael-fallon-admits-touching-female/|archive-date=2 November 2017|url-status=live}} Hartley-Brewer recalled that after Fallon kept putting his hand on her knee, she "calmly and politely explained to him, that if he did it again, I would punch him in the face".{{cite news |title=Michael Fallon 'apologised for touching journalist's knee' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41812281 |work=BBC News |date=31 October 2017 |access-date=20 June 2018 |archive-date=30 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930092553/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41812281 |url-status=live }} Fallon resigned two days later believing his "previous conduct" towards women had "fallen below" what is acceptable.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41838682|title=Fallon resigns as Defence Secretary over behaviour claims|work=BBC News|date=1 November 2017|access-date=1 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101193505/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41838682|archive-date=1 November 2017|url-status=live}} Hartley-Brewer expressed shock at the resignation, saying: "I didn't feel it was something that needed any further dealing with".{{Cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/insane-absurd-and-ridiculous-journalist-julia-hartleybrewer-touched-on-knee-by-michael-fallon-a3674196.html|title=Journalist touched on knee by Fallon calls resignation 'insane'|work=Evening Standard|access-date=2018-04-22|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423040620/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/insane-absurd-and-ridiculous-journalist-julia-hartleybrewer-touched-on-knee-by-michael-fallon-a3674196.html|archive-date=23 April 2018|url-status=live}}

It was subsequently reported Fallon had been forced to resign in part due to an allegation of inappropriate and lewd comments towards fellow Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom when they both sat on the Treasury Select Committee. He was also accused of making comments of a sexual nature about other MPs on the committee and members of the public who attended hearings.{{cite news |last=Watts |first=Joe |date=3 November 2017 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-fallon-andrea-leadsom-accuse-sexual-harassment-resign-conservative-defence-secretary-tory-a8034991.html |title=Sir Michael Fallon resigned after Andrea Leadsom accused him of sexually inappropriate language |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=3 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171103084925/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-fallon-andrea-leadsom-accuse-sexual-harassment-resign-conservative-defence-secretary-tory-a8034991.html |archive-date=3 November 2017 |url-status=live }} The former political editor of The Independent on Sunday, Jane Merrick, said in The Observer in early November 2017 that Fallon was the previously unnamed Conservative MP who had "lunged" at her a decade and a half earlier. She had contacted Downing Street about the incident several hours before he resigned.{{cite news |last=Merrick |first=Jane |date=4 November 2017 |title=I won't keep my silence: Michael Fallon lunged at me after our lunch |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2017/nov/04/michael-fallon-lunged-at-me-jane-merrick |newspaper=The Observer |access-date=5 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105002843/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2017/nov/04/michael-fallon-lunged-at-me-jane-merrick |archive-date=5 November 2017 |url-status=live }} The Observer reported on the same day that "the revelation was the tipping point for No 10, which ... had been compiling a list of alleged incidents involving Fallon since claims against him were first made."{{Cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/04/michael-fallon-defence-secretary-sexual-harassment| title=Revealed: Why Michael Fallon was forced to quit as defence secretary| newspaper=The Guardian| date=4 November 2017| last1=Doward| first1=Jamie| access-date=27 January 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105002836/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/04/michael-fallon-defence-secretary-sexual-harassment| archive-date=5 November 2017| url-status=live}}

In September 2019, Fallon announced he would not seek re-election at the 2019 United Kingdom general election.{{cite news|url=https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/sevenoaks-mp-michael-fallon-step-3285958|title=Sevenoaks MP Michael Fallon is to step down after more than 31 years in Parliament|work=Kent Live|date=4 September 2019|access-date=5 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905020216/https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/sevenoaks-mp-michael-fallon-step-3285958|archive-date=5 September 2019|url-status=live}}

Between 1992 and 1997, Fallon set up a chain of children's nurseries called Just Learning with funding from the British Dragons' Den member Duncan Bannatyne, becoming chief executive.{{cite news|url=http://www.retail-week.com/profile-michael-fallon-minister-for-business/5040550.article|title=Profile: Michael Fallon, Minister for business|last=Holland|first=Tiffany|date=14 September 2012|newspaper=Retail Week|access-date=10 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714205949/http://www.retail-week.com/profile-michael-fallon-minister-for-business/5040550.article|archive-date=14 July 2014|url-status=live}}

Fallon has been married to Wendy Elisabeth Payne, a HR professional, since 27 September 1986; the couple have two sons.{{cite news |last=Settle |first=Michael |date=2 November 2017 |title=Humiliated Sir Michael Fallon quits as Defence Secretary as sex scandal sweeps Westminster |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15634594.Fallon_quits_as_Westminster_scandal_claims_first_cabinet_victim/ |newspaper=The Herald |location=Glasgow |access-date=9 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107010056/http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15634594.Fallon_quits_as_Westminster_scandal_claims_first_cabinet_victim/ |archive-date=7 November 2017 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Vote 2001 - Michael Fallon |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/candidates/candidates/5/50802.stm |work=BBC News |access-date=9 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310150627/http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/candidates/candidates/5/50802.stm |archive-date=10 March 2015 |url-status=live }} The family lives in Sundridge, Kent.

He was banned from driving for 18 months in 1983 after admitting a drink-driving offence during the general election campaign.The Guardian, News in Brief, 5 July 1983:

Fallon was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) for political and public service as part of the Resignation Honours of the outgoing prime minister David Cameron.{{London Gazette |issue=61678 |supp=y |date=16 August 2016 |page=RH3}}

• The Quango Explosion: Public Bodies and Ministerial Patronage by Philip Holland and Michael Fallon, 1978, Conservative Political Centre, {{ISBN|0-85070-621-1}}
• Sovereign Members by Michael Fallon, 1982
• The Rise of the Euroquango by Michael Fallon, 1982, Adam Smith Institute, {{ISBN|0-906517-22-2}}
• Brighter Schools: Attracting Private Investment into State Schools by Michael Fallon, 1993, Social Market Foundation, {{ISBN|1-874097-15-1}}

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• [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-1649,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle: Michael Fallon MP]
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