Eric Pickles
The Right Honourable The Lord Pickles Kt PC | |
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| United Kingdom Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 10 September 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Andrew Burns |
| United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion | |
In office 10 September 2015 – December 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Ken Clarke |
| Succeeded by | John Penrose |
| Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | |
In office 12 May 2010 – 11 May 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | John Denham |
| Succeeded by | Greg Clark |
| Minister of State for Faith | |
In office 6 August 2014 – 11 May 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Warsi (Faith and Communities) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Chairman of the Conservative Party | |
In office 19 January 2009 – 12 May 2010 | |
| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Caroline Spelman |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Feldman of Elstree The Baroness Warsi |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | |
In office 27 June 2007 – 19 January 2009 | |
| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Caroline Spelman |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Spelman |
In office 11 November 2003 – 6 May 2005 Local Government | |
| Leader | Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | David Davis (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) |
| Succeeded by | Caroline Spelman (Local Government Affairs and Communities) |
In office 6 June 2002 – 23 July 2002 Local Government and the Regions | |
| Leader | Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | Theresa May (Transport, Local Government and the Regions) |
| Succeeded by | David Davis (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) |
Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar | |
In office 9 April 1992 – 3 May 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Robert McCrindle |
| Succeeded by | Alex Burghart |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Eric Jack Pickles (1952-04-20) 20 April 1952 Keighley, England, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Irene Coates |
| Alma mater | Leeds Metropolitan University |
| Website | Official website gov.uk |
Eric Jack Pickles, Baron Pickles[2], Kt PC (born 20 April 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar from the 1992 general election to the 2017 general election and was the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government until May 2015.[3] He was previously the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2009 to 2010 and is currently the chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel.[4] He is the United Kingdom Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues, being appointed in 2015.[5]
Pickles stood down at the 2017 general election, but continued in his role as Special Envoy, and Anti Corruption Champion.[6][5]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Young Conservatives
3 Bradford councillor
4 Parliamentary career
5 Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
5.1 Localism Act
5.2 Council prayers
5.3 Troubled Families
6 Flags
7 Second home
8 Personal life
9 Styles
10 References
11 Sources
12 External links
Early life
Eric Jack Pickles was born on 20 April 1952, the son of Jack and Constance Pickles.[7] Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, he attended Greenhead Grammar School (now University Academy Keighley) and then studied at Leeds Polytechnic. He was born into a Labour-supporting family – his great grandfather was one of the founders of the Independent Labour Party, and Pickles described himself as "massively inclined" towards communism as a boy.[8]
Young Conservatives
After the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, he joined the local Keighley Branch of the Young Conservatives in 1968, later commenting "I joined because of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. I was so shocked by the tanks. It was not the best way of fighting Brezhnev, but it made me feel better".[9][10]
Pickles soon became the chairman of the local Young Conservatives association.[10] During his time in the Young Conservatives he became a member of the Joint Committee Against Racism from 1982 to 1987 and later became its Chairman.[11]
His period as National Young Conservative Chairman saw growing factionalism with challenges from a southern-based right wing to Pickles' moderate leadership.[12] Pickles also moved against right-wingers in Bradford, expelling the Young Conservative, Yorkshire Chairman of the Monday Club who had stood for the Bradford Wyke Ward on an anti-immigrant platform from the Bradford area constituencies.[13][14][15][16]
Bradford councillor
Pickles was first elected to Bradford Council in 1979.[10] From 1982 to 1984, he chaired that Council's Social Services Committee, and then, from 1984 to 1986, he chaired the Education Committee.[17] Between 1988 and 1990, he served as leader of the Conservative group on the council. In September 1988 the Conservative Party gained control by using the Conservative mayor's casting vote to become the only inner-city council to be controlled by the Conservatives.[citation needed]
When Bradford Council was hung, Pickles opted to break the agreement that the position of Lord Mayor is rotated between the parties, when he put a Conservative mayor in place again.[18] This effectively gave the Conservatives a majority due to the Lord Mayor's casting vote. To do this, they also broke the tradition that the Lord Mayor kept the status quo.
Whilst at Bradford, Pickles announced a five-year plan to cut the council's budget by £50m, reduce the workforce by a third, privatise services and undertake council departmental restructures, many of which proved controversial.[18] A book, The Pickles Papers, by Tony Grogan, was written about this period in Pickles' life.[19]
Parliamentary career
Pickles was Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar 1992 until standing down in 2017. He was the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in the coalition government headed by Prime Minister David Cameron until May 2015, following his appointment to the role on 12 May 2010. Previously he has served as Chairman of the Conservative Party from January 2009 to May 2010 and Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, having held that post since June 2007. Prior to this he served as Shadow Minister for Local Government from June 2002. Before that Pickles was Shadow Minister for Transport (September 2001 – June 2002) and Shadow Minister for London.
At the 2001 general election, the independent candidate Martin Bell, who was the MP for Tatton, having run a campaign of "anti-sleaze", stood against Pickles due to accusations that the Peniel Pentecostal Church had infiltrated the local Conservative branch.[20] Pickles's vote was reduced from 45.4% to 38%, but he retained his seat by a margin of 2,821 votes (6.5%) becoming elected with 38% of the votes against Martin Bell's 31.5%.
At the 2005 general election Pickles retained the seat with an increased majority of 11,612 (26.3%), nearly as many as the total votes cast for the second-place candidate, and making this the second-safest seat in Eastern England, and Pickles the MP with the third-highest share of the vote cast[21] in this region. Pickles polled a total of 23,609 votes (53.5%).
On 2 July 2007 David Cameron appointed Pickles to a reshuffled Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary. On 30 December 2008, according to reports in The Times, Pickles unveiled plans to "purge town hall 'fat cats'". The Times reported that under the plans "dozens of council chiefs who earn more than Cabinet ministers would lose their jobs as clusters of councils merged their frontline services and backroom operations to provide better value for money."[22] Of the eight highest earning chief executives listed in The Times' report, six were employed by councils run by the Conservative party, one by Labour and one by the Liberal Democrats.
Pickles was the campaign manager for the successful Crewe and Nantwich by-election in May 2008. Following this, Pickles was promoted to Chairman of the Conservative Party in January 2009.
In early 2010, Pickles defended the first-past-the-post voting system as resulting in stable government. He attacked Prime Minister Gordon Brown saying he "now wants to fiddle the electoral system" by wanting to change the voting system.[23]
A former Eurosceptic,[24] Pickles became a Founding MP of Conservatives For Reform In Europe in January 2016, the campaign to remain in the European Union, subject to the Prime Minister's renegotiations.
In 2017, Pickles was appointed chairman of the Parliamentary Review[25].
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Pickles was appointed as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government as part of David Cameron's new coalition Government on 12 May 2010,[26] and sworn as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.[27]
Pickles delivers the keynote address at the Flag Institute Spring Meeting 2011 in Mayfair
In his role as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on 30 July 2010, Pickles announced plans to hand powers where ministers can cap what they deem to be unreasonable increases in council taxes to local people. A consultation began in August 2010 and the powers, which will require legislation, should be in force by March 2012.[needs update] Pickles said he was determined to reverse the presumption that Whitehall knows best by making local councils directly accountable to the local taxpayer. He said: "If councils want to increase council tax further, they will have to prove the case to the electorate. Let the people decide". Residents would be asked to choose between accepting the rise or rejecting it and instead accepting a below inflation rise, but with reduced council services. The average council tax on a Band D property increased from £688 a year in 1997/98 to £1,439 for 2010.[28]
Pickles is a figure who does not shun controversy. In The Observer, Will Hutton appraised his role with regard to local government as follows: "Local government minister Eric Pickles has colluded cheerfully with George Osborne to knock local government back to being no more than rat catchers and managers of street lighting. Indeed, they scarcely give them the funds to carry out these activities."[29]
In December 2014, asked in Parliament if people who left their wheelie bins in the street after a collection should be punished, he said they should be flogged -though he also said flogging was too good for them and that leaving the bin in the middle of the road was poor behaviour.[30]
The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal was unearthed during Pickles' tenure, and in February 2015 he announced a strategy to implement commissioners at Rotherham Council in the wake of the Casey Report, which had been commissioned in 2014 to investigate child sex abuse in Rotherham. Seven councillors resigned as a result of the damning report, which revealed that the local authority was "wholly dysfunctional" and that the failure to protect 1,400 girls from sexual abuse was a result of "complacency, institutionalised political correctness" and "blatant failures of political and officer leadership".[31]
Localism Act
Pickles in 2009
Pickles was responsible for the Localism Act 2011 that changed the powers of local government in England. The measures affected by the Act include more elected mayors and referendums. The Localism Act opens with Part 1, Chapter 1(1), under the heading "Local authority's general power of competence", "A local council has power to do anything that individuals generally may do".[32]
The bill was introduced by Pickles, and given its first reading on 13 December 2010. The Bill completed the third reading in the House of Lords on 31 October 2011.[33] The bill received Royal Assent on 15 November 2011.
The bill was quickly undermined, however, after it was published on 13 December. One of the claims made for it is that it would "give local communities real control over housing and planning decisions", but on the same day, Pickles issued a decision in a planning appeal. The National Grid had applied to Tewkesbury Borough Council to build a gas plant just outside Tirley in Gloucestershire. The installation would occupy more than 16 acres and the application had been opposed by more than 1,000 residents in a sparsely populated rural area, by 12 parish councils and by every member of the planning committee of the local planning authority. Rejecting the local opposition, Pickles chose to grant permission to build the gas plant.[34]
In April 2014, South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon welcomed the decision that Pickles and the DCLG would have final say over the building of wind turbines.[35] By June 2014, Pickles had intervened on 12 windfarm projects and rejected 10 of them, against the recommendations from planning inspectors,[36] rising to 50 rejections by October 2014.[37]
Council prayers
On 10 February 2012, the National Secular Society obtained a High Court judicial review of the Christian prayers held during meetings in council chambers, which non-Christian councillors were forced to attend as prayers formed part of the formal agenda and councillors are obliged to attend for the duration of the formal agenda.
Mr Justice Ouseley ruled: "The saying of prayers as part of the formal meeting of a Council is not lawful under s111 of the Local Government Act 1972, and there is no statutory power permitting the practice to continue. I do not think the 1972 Act should be interpreted as permitting the religious views of one group of councillors, however sincere or large in number, to exclude, or even to a modest extent, to impose burdens on or even to mark out those who do not share their views and do not wish to participate in their expression of them. They are all equally elected councillors".[38]
Although Mr Justice Ouseley said prayers were permitted to be held before the start of the formal agenda, Eric Pickles vowed to reverse the High Court decision, despite a recent Yougov poll showing 55% were against councils holding prayers with just 26% in favour.[39] Eric Pickles brought forward his Localism Act, due to become law in April 2012, and made it law on 17 February 2012 claiming he is 'effectively reversing' the High Court decision.[40]
Keith Porteous Wood, Executive Director of the National Secular Society, commented "A number of senior lawyers have expressed doubt whether the Localism Act will, as Mr Pickles hopes, make prayers lawful, and the Act was clearly not passed with that express intention. His powers to pass legislation are not, as he implies, untrammelled. Council prayers increasingly look set to become a battle between the Government and the courts at ever higher levels".[41] The Localism Act permits local government councils to do anything that is not forbidden. Eric Pickles has written to all local government councils encouraging them to continue with prayers in council meetings.[42] In April 2013, referring to the issue of prayers in council meetings, Pickles said in a speech at the Conservative Spring Forum that "militant atheists" should accept that Britain is a Christian country.[43]
Troubled Families
Pickles led the Troubled Families Programme designed to turn around 120,000 dysfunctional families responsible, according to David Cameron, for 'a large proportion of the problems in society'. The families were in fact selected for having 5 of 7 measures of social and economic deprivation. Pickles had claimed repeatedly that these families cost the state £9 billion per annum. On 10 March 2015 Pickles declared the programme a 'triumph' in the House of Commons after it allegedly 'turned around' 105,600 families of 117,910 processed and saved £1.2 billion per annum. He was challenged by Labour MP Hilary Benn and responded 'The Rt. Hon. gentleman made a number of points on how we can demonstrate success and square the £1.2 billion with the £9 billion ...this is notoriously difficult territory because governments of all types are absolutely terrible at measuring outcomes'.[44]
A report leaked to BBC Newsnight in advance of publication found that the Troubled Families programme had "no discernible" effect on unemployment, truancy or criminality. The scheme sought to "turn around" 120,000 households at a cost of around £400 million.[45]
Flags
Eric Pickles hoisting the Essex flag above the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2010.
Pickles is a self-proclaimed flag enthusiast,[46] and has taken a personal interest in ensuring that English county flags be regularly flown from the Department for Communities and Local Government.[47][48] He has urged people to fly the St George Cross of England more widely for St. George's Day and encouraged public bodies to adopt a commonsense approach to flying the flag.[49] On 14 May 2011, at the Flag Institute spring meeting, Pickles announced a consultation aimed at "Making it easier for people to celebrate an identity or an organisation that means something to them".[50]
Second home
On 26 March 2009, Pickles appeared on the political debate programme Question Time in Newcastle upon Tyne. While discussing the controversy over Tony McNulty (who had recently admitted claiming expenses on a second home, occupied by his parents, only 8 miles away from his primary residence), Pickles admitted he claimed a second home allowance because he lived 37 miles from Westminster and needed to leave his constituency house in Brentwood at 5.30 am to get to Westminster for 9.30 am,[51][52] given that he tended to get home at midnight or 1 am, although the standard time for commuters from this region is usually ninety minutes.[53] He went on to say that it was "no fun" commuting into London from where he lived. In response to Pickles's comments that he "had to be there [the House of Commons] on time", Question Time host David Dimbleby, replied "Like a job, in other words?" and fellow panellist Caroline Lucas added 'welcome to the real world', both of which prompted amusement and applause amongst the audience.
Pickles was asked to pay back £300 following the MP's expenses scandal, which he had claimed for cleaning.[54]
Personal life
Pickles married Irene Coates in 1976 in Staincliffe, a district of Batley in West Yorkshire.
On 22 May 2015 it was announced that Pickles was to be appointed a Knight Bachelor.[55]
He was nominated for a Life Peerage by Theresa May on 18 May 2018.[56] On 18 June 2018 he was created Baron Pickles, of Brentwood and Ongar in the County of Essex.[57]
Styles
- Eric Pickles (1952–1992)
- Eric Pickles MP (1992–2010)
- The Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP (2010–2015)
- The Rt Hon Sir Eric Pickles MP (2015–2017)
- The Rt Hon Sir Eric Pickles (2017–2018)
- The Rt Hon The Lord Pickles Kt PC (2018–present)
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External links
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Voting record at Public Whip
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Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
Articles authored at Journalisted
Contributor page at The Guardian
Grogan, Tony (1989). The Pickles Papers. Bradford: 1 in 12 Publications. ISBN 0-948994-04-5.
(free electronic edition, October 1996).
Eric Pickles news at publicservice.co.uk
Video: "Eric Pickles' War Room Briefing: The challenge facing us at the next election" on YouTube on the Webcameron channel.
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