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After former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown announced his support for Clegg, a previous Liberal leader Lord Steel declared his support for Huhne, based in part on Huhne's position on the Trident nuclear programme.

In the last week of campaigning, his team were bullish about his chances, predicting a win. About 1, postal votes were caught up in the Christmas post and missed the election deadline. An unofficial check of the late papers showed Huhne had enough votes among them to hand him victory. Huhne stood by the result, saying: " Nick Clegg won fair and square on the rules counting the ballot papers that arrived in by the deadline.

There is no question of any re-run. During the leadership election, Nick Clegg registered a formal complaint about Huhne's conduct to Chris Rennard , the party's Chief Whip and returning officer. But I can assure you that's not had my authorization. Speaking to the Independent on 21 November , Huhne claimed: "Unfortunately it was a mixture of responsibilities. It was an over-zealous young researcher who was responsible for drawing up the document. In October , Huhne led the Liberal-Democrat response to the government's announcement of plans to expand the capacity to collect records of people using electronic communications.

The Home Secretary's announcement was in response to warnings by police and the security services that the growing fragmentation and complexity of communications was hindering their tackling of terrorism and organised criminality. But Huhne disagreed with the government's response to the police and security services, saying: "The Government's Orwellian plans for a vast database of our private communications are deeply worrying.

I hope that this consultation is not just a sham exercise to soft-soap an unsuspecting public. In January , Huhne was credited with uncovering an instance of data loss of government information caused by a courier company losing a computer disc containing bank details of up to 2, public servants working for the British Council.

Huhne blamed the Foreign Secretary , David Miliband , and the government for the courier company's loss and said that the incident was an example of why the UK should not have identity cards : "This is another instance in a long line of slapdash data protection by government departments. If Whitehall cannot look after its own data records it should not be trusted with the personal information of every citizen as it wants with the identity card scheme. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say that, but he reacted in an entirely understandable way to what was not the most riveting of parliamentary occasions.

I hope you will accept I intended no personal offence and fully withdraw my comments. Nutt had criticised the government's decision to reclassify cannabis as a Class B drug rather than keeping it as a class C. Attacking the government, he said that if they did not want to take expert scientific advice they might as well have a "committee of tabloid newspaper editors to advise on drugs policy".

As part of The Daily Telegraph investigation into expense claims by MPs, Huhne was reported to have claimed for various items including groceries, fluffy dusters and a trouser press. He later claimed on a live Channel 4 news programme that he needed the trouser press to "look smart" for work. Huhne was one of sixteen ministers whose assets were held in a blind trust. Following the general election , Huhne became a member of the Liberal Democrats' key negotiating team alongside Danny Alexander , David Laws and Andrew Stunell that brokered the agreement to go into a governing coalition with the Conservatives.

He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May A vocal environmentalist, Huhne accepted the role of Secretary of State with the stated intention of making the nation more ecologically conscious. In government, Huhne maintained a flexible approach on the subject of nuclear energy, advocating the three-pronged portfolio approach to energy: a commitment to nuclear energy; the development of more renewable energy, such as wind and sea power; and new carbon-capture technology to mitigate the damaging environmental effects of fossil fuel-fired power plants and industrial facilities.

In an interview with The Observer in March , after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, Huhne stated that: "there are a lot of issues outside of the realm of nuclear safety, which we will have to assess. One is what the economics of nuclear power post-Fukushima will be, if there is an increase in the cost in capital to nuclear operators. If it was a commercial loan it would have been arranged through the banks and not by the government.

It was precisely because of the public subsidy element, and the fact that the public subsidy element was not affordable, that the government decided not to proceed with it. The gathering, at which over countries were represented, announced a deal to curb climate change which Prime Minister David Cameron described as a "very significant step forward.

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It is what Britain needs to clean up politics. On 5 February Huhne resigned as an MP following his plea of guilty to perverting the course of justice. Huhne was also a consultant for Nationwide Energy Services. Until , Huhne was a regular contributor for The Guardian newspaper. Huhne married Greek-born economist Vicky Pryce formerly Chief Economist in the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform in shortly after she divorced her first husband, with whom she had two daughters.

In June , Huhne admitted that he had been involved in a relationship with Carina Trimingham and stated that he had decided to leave his wife [88] to be with her. Huhne's wife and children were unaware of his behaviour and plans. Within one week of Huhne's declaration, Pryce filed for divorce on the grounds of Huhne's "admitted adultery".

Trimingham had worked on Huhne's campaigns for the Liberal Democrat leadership in and and was a paid staff member on his general-election campaign. She was press officer for Brian Paddick during the Mayor of London election , and was campaigns director at the Electoral Reform Society. Huhne was defended by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude , who said: "What goes on in people's private lives is a subject that fascinates the tabloid press but is irrelevant to the job they are trying to do.

He describes his other interests as "European single currency, economics, Third World debt and development, Europe". Prior to his careers as a financial journalist, analyst and politician, Huhne wrote four books that are mainly on the themes of either Third-World debt and development, or European integration.

His latest book is entitled Both Sides of the Coin , with James Forder , in which he argues the case for British membership in the euro. He was a contributor to the Orange Book , in which he advocates reforms to the United Nations and international governance. Huhne was critical of the most controversial article in the Orange Book , in which David Laws proposed an insurance-based National Health Service.

He did not take part in the successor volume, Britain after Blair and has voiced dismay at the way its predecessor was presented as a break with the party's social liberal traditions. These cover the case for localism in which Huhne argues that there is no contradiction between localism and equality, and the need for environmental policy to tackle climate change.

In May Huhne's estranged wife Vicky Pryce approached a reporter for the Mail on Sunday with a claim that Huhne had "pressurised people to take his driving licence penalty points" on his behalf in Huhne denied the allegations of perverting the course of justice , contrary to common law. Essex Police said: "We take allegations such as this one extremely seriously and will take action where necessary.

Essex Police sent initial papers to the Crown Prosecution Service regarding the allegations and Huhne exercised his right to remain silent in response to police questions in May.

On 25 June , Essex Police said that a judge at the Crown Court at Chelmsford had granted them a court order to take possession of a recording from The Sunday Times in which the ex-couple apparently discuss the case.

A decision on whether criminal proceedings would be instituted for the alleged offence was expected to be made by the end of September On 28 October , the Crown Prosecution Service referred the matter to Essex Police for further investigation, having completed a "full review" of the allegations.

The DPP stated "we do not shy away from prosecuting politicians". On that date The Sunday Times dropped its application for judicial review and said that it would comply with the court order for delivery of the documents. The emails were delivered to Essex Police, who said there was no need to conduct further interviews. The DPP, Sir Keir Starmer, created some controversy about the prospect of a fair trial by personally announcing on television on 3 February that both Huhne and Pryce had been charged with perverting the course of justice.

Huhne thereupon resigned from the Cabinet. A trial was timetabled for early October , with the possibility that the case might start earlier. Neither defendant entered a plea and both were granted unconditional bail. Pryce entered a plea of not guilty, and would advance a defence at trial of marital coercion : that is, that her then husband coerced her into taking his penalty points. On 5 October , the trial was adjourned until 14 January for "legal reasons" which were not disclosed.

On 28 January , Huhne was arraigned and pleaded "not guilty" to the indictment. A new trial date was set for 4 February On 4 February Huhne pleaded guilty on re-arraignment, and was appointed to the Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds , thus resigning his seat in Parliament and triggering a by-election. He was remanded on unconditional bail until sentencing at a date to be notified.

In February , at the trial of Vicky Pryce it was revealed that Constance Briscoe had been arrested in relation to statements she had made to police that she had not had any involvement with the leaking of the driving licence points-swapping story. Briscoe was arrested on 6 October She was later convicted, sentenced to 16 months in prison and stripped of her barrister role. Edis stated that Briscoe was a neighbour and friend of Pryce and that the "two of them appear to have cooked up a plan" to bring about Huhne's downfall.

On 11 March , Huhne and Pryce were each sentenced to eight months' imprisonment. Grieve had until 8 April — 28 days after the original sentence — to decide whether to refer the case to the Court of Appeal, which has the power to increase sentences. Huhne and his ex-wife were released on 13 May , having both served two months of their eight-month sentences. British Independent politician. Liberal Democrat frontbench positions.

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He was appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change following the general election. He has twice run for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats but was beaten on both occasions. In the election he came second to Sir Menzies Campbell and in the election he narrowly lost to Nick Clegg.

Huhne was born in an affluent section of west London to businessman Peter Paul-Huhne and amateur actress, Ann Muray, who had been the voice of the Speaking clock. He was educated at the fee-paying Westminster School. His family name was Paul-Huhne and he was known all through his school years as Christopher Paul-Huhne. At Oxford, he simplified his name to "Chris Huhne". Taylor Swift. Lawn birth. Danny Fenster.