Mike Weatherley
British politician (1957-2021)
Michael Richard Weatherley (2 July 1957 – 20 May 2021) was a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove in East Sussex from 2010 to 2015.
Early life
Weatherley was born in Clevedon, Somerset, on 2 July 1957, the son of Derrick and Kirsten Weatherley. He was educated at Aiglon College in Switzerland and Kent College, a private school near Canterbury, Kent, and read business studies at London South Bank University. In 1988, he became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. From 2000 to 2005, he was finance director of record producer Pete Waterman's group of businesses. In 2007, Weatherley became vice-president (Europe) of Motion Picture Licensing Corporation; in 2019, he became its vice-chairman and CEO.
Political career
Weatherley's first parliamentary candidacy was at the 2001 general election in the safe Labour seat of Barking in east London; he increased the Conservative vote share, but came a distant second. Two years later, in 2003, he unsuccessfully stood for the council seat of Hollingbury and Stanmer in Brighton and Hove. At the next Westminster election, held in 2005, he was the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Brighton, Pavilion, the seat adjacent to Hove. In the event, the seat was held by the incumbent Labour MP, David Lepper, with a majority of over 5,000, and the Conservative vote share declined.
In 2006, Weatherley secured a seat on his local Crawley Borough Council, winning the Conservative-held ward of Furnace Green, and defeating the Labour candidate, 2005 Big Brother contestant Eugene Sully.
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