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Evan Leslie Harris MB ChB MP (born
21 October 1965) is a
British Liberal Democrat politician. He is the
Member of Parliament for
Oxford West and Abingdon.
Education and professional career
Evan Harris was born in
Sheffield,
South Yorkshire, the son of
South African
Jewish parents (his father was a medical professor), and brought up in
Liverpool, where he attended the
Blue Coat School. He went on to
Wadham College, Oxford where he was awarded a
Bachelor of Arts degree in
physiology and a
diploma in
medical sociology. He completed his education at the
Oxford Medical School where he received a
Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery and qualified as a
doctor. He also won a
Harvard-Westlake School high school scholarship in 1984. He began his career at the
Royal Liverpool University Hospital in 1991 as a House Officer, he left the Royal Liverpool in 1992 and took up the same position at the
John Radcliffe Hospital,
Oxford, becoming a
senior house officer in 1992. In 1994 he became a
registrar in public health with the Oxfordshire
Health Authority where he remained until his election to
parliament.
Political career
He joined the
Social Democratic Party in 1985, joining the newly formed Liberal Democrats in 1988. He was elected to the
House of Commons at the
1997 General Election for
Oxford West and Abingdon following the retirement of the sitting
Conservative MP and former Cabinet minister
John Patten. Harris gained the seat for the Liberal Democrats with a majority of 6,285 and has remained the MP there since, making his
maiden speech on
May 21,
1997.
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In parliament, he was made a
frontbench spokesman on
health by
Paddy Ashdown in 1997, and was moved under the new leadership of
Charles Kennedy in 1999 to become a spokesman on
education. He was promoted to the Liberal Democrat
shadow cabinet following the
2001 General Election as the Liberal Democrat Shadow
Secretary of State for Health, but stood down to care for his girlfriend Liz O'Hara who had been diagnosed with
Glioblastoma multiforme in
2003,
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science since the
2005 General Election. He was a member of the
education and employment select committee for two years from 1999 and has been a member of the science and
technology committee since 2003 and a member of the
human rights committee since 2005.
Harris is strongly pro-choice and has been highly criticised by pro-life and Church leaders for this and his support of euthanasia. He has spoken in support of experimentation on animals carried out at
Oxford University, which is mostly based in his constituency, most recently
Pro-Test's Oxford march in February 2008.
Personal life
He has been a member of the
British Medical Association since 1992 and has been honorary president of
Delga, the Liberal Democrats'
LGBT group since 2000 and a vice-president of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (
GALHA). He serves on many all party groups and is the chairman of the all party kidney group, vice chairman of the groups on refugees, malaria, AIDS, heart disease,
lupus, brain tumours, and is the treasurer of the groups on Israel and
Council of Christians and Jews. He is an Honorary Associate of the
National Secular Society,.
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