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Tag: Commons' Defense Committee chairman

  • Monday, May 19th 2014 - 09:44 UTC

    New Commons' Defense Committee chairman supported by Labor and Lib-Dem

    MP Rory Stewart, 41, former diplomat, Army officer who served in Iraq, author and above all is considered by his peers an “independent intelligent mind”

    Conservative MP Rory Stewart has been selected to chair the British House of Commons defense committee. In a short statement to the Commons, Speaker John Bercow said 479 MPs voted in the election for the post. In the final round of voting, Mr Stewart got 226 votes. His rival, Julian Lewis received 212 votes. There was one spoilt ballot paper.