James Cleverly
James Spencer Cleverly TD VR (born 4 September 1969) is a British politician and Army Reserve officer who has served as Foreign Secretary since 2022.[1] A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Braintree in Essex since 2015. He previously served as Secretary of State for Education from July to September 2022, Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party alongside Ben Elliot from 2019 to 2020 and as the member of the London Assembly (AM) for Bexley and Bromley from 2008 to 2016.
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| Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 6 September 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Liz Truss Rishi Sunak | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Liz Truss | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Secretary of State for Education | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 7 July 2022 – 6 September 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Michelle Donelan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Kit Malthouse | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister of State for Europe and North America | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 8 February 2022 – 7 July 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Chris Heaton-Harris | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Graham Stuart[a] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister of State for Middle East, North Africa and North America[b] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 13 February 2020 – 8 February 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Andrew Murrison | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Amanda Milling[c] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman of the Conservative Party | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 24 July 2019 – 13 February 2020 Serving with Ben Elliot | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Leader | Boris Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Brandon Lewis | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Amanda Milling | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister without Portfolio | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 24 July 2019 – 13 February 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Brandon Lewis | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Amanda Milling | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 4 April 2019 – 24 July 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Theresa May | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Chris Heaton-Harris | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Office abolished | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 8 January 2018 – 4 April 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Leader | Theresa May | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Amanda Sater | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Helen Whately | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of Parliament for Braintree | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Brooks Newmark | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Majority | 24,673 (48.9%) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | James Spencer Cleverly 4 September 1969 Lewisham, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Conservative | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Susannah Sparks (m. 2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence(s) | Blackheath, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Ealing College of Higher Education | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | cleverly4braintree | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Allegiance | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Branch/service | British Army (Army Reserve) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1989–present | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Lieutenant colonel | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Unit | Royal Artillery | ||||||||||||||||||||
Cleverly advocated a vote for Brexit in the 2016 EU membership referendum. In the second May ministry, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2018 to 2019 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from April to July 2019. After Boris Johnson was appointed Prime Minister in July 2019, Cleverly was promoted to the Cabinet as Minister without portfolio. He served as co-chairman of the Conservative Party alongside Ben Elliot from 2019 to 2020. Cleverly was demoted from the Cabinet in the 2020 cabinet reshuffle and appointed Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa. He became Minister of State for Middle East, North Africa and North America in December 2021, before being appointed Minister of State for Europe and North America in February 2022. In July 2022 he succeeded Michelle Donelan as Secretary of State for Education. In September 2022 he was appointed Foreign Secretary by then-Prime Minister Liz Truss, making him the first Foreign Secretary of African heritage in British history. He was retained as Foreign Secretary by Rishi Sunak in October 2022.
Early life and education
Cleverly was born on 4 September 1969 in Lewisham, London, to James Philip and Evelyn Suna Cleverly.[2] His father is British and worked as a surveyor and his mother worked as a midwife and is from Sierra Leone.[3] He was privately educated at Riverston School and Colfe's School, both in Lee, London. Cleverly then trained in the army, but his training was cut short by a leg injury in 1989. He went on to gain a Bachelor of Arts degree in hospitality management studies from Ealing College of Higher Education (now University of West London) in 1991.[4][5]
After graduating, he worked for the publishing company Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen; he joined Informa as international sales manager in 2002. Two years later, Cleverly joined Crimson Publishing as an advertising manager. He became online commercial manager for Caspian Publishing in 2006. The following year, he co-founded web publishing company Point and Fire.[2][4]
Military service
On 6 October 1991, Cleverly was commissioned into the Army Reserve, as a second lieutenant (on probation).[6] In January 1993, his commission was confirmed and he was made a substantive second lieutenant.[7] He was promoted to lieutenant on 6 October 1993,[8] to captain on 26 May 1998,[9] and to major on 1 November 2003.[10] Until 2005, he was Battery Commander of 266 (Para) Battery Royal Artillery (Volunteers).[11]
Cleverly was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 1 March 2015.[12]
Cleverly is currently part of Central Volunteers HQ Royal Artillery (now known as National Reserve Headquarters, Royal Artillery), working as a Staff Officer in 1st (UK) Armoured Division.[13]
Political career
London Assembly
In March 2007, Cleverly was selected as the candidate for the Bexley and Bromley constituency of the London Assembly in a very tightly fought selection contest. The London Assembly election was held on 1 May with the count and declaration on 2 May, where he received 105,162 votes (52.6% of the vote) and a majority of 75,237.[14]
In January 2009 Cleverly was appointed as the mayor of London's youth ambassador, a newly created role which was seen as being a replacement post for the deputy mayor for young people, a post left vacant after the resignation of Ray Lewis. The creation of the role caused some controversy as it was not filled by a mayoral appointment but by a member of the Assembly whose formal role was to scrutinise the Mayor. The decision was defended because of the precedent set by the appointment of Kit Malthouse as Deputy Mayor for Policing.[15]
In February 2010, Cleverly was appointed as the chairman of the London Waste and Recycling Board, replacing Boris Johnson who had stood down.[16]
In August 2010 Cleverly posted a tweet saying: "We may be coalition partners but it doesn't stop me thinking Simon Hughes is a dick," in response to a suggestion by Hughes, the Liberal Democrat deputy leader, that backbench MPs should be able to veto Coalition policies. [17] He later apologised.[18]
In November 2010, Cleverly was re-selected to be the Conservative candidate for Bexley and Bromley at the 2012 London Assembly election, going on to win the seat with 88,482 votes (once again 52.6% of the votes) and a majority of 47,768.[19] After the defeat of Brian Coleman at the election, Cleverly was appointed to the chair of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.
House of Commons
In January 2015, Cleverly was selected to be the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Braintree for the 2015 general election, after the sitting Conservative MP Brooks Newmark stood down following controversy over sexting and the sending of obscene images online.[20] His selection came after the initial selection process was quietly suspended by Conservative Campaign Headquarters, after the local party chose someone not on the approved candidates list and was told to "think again".[21] He was subsequently elected as the constituency's MP,[22] following which he did not defend his seat at the 2016 London Assembly election.[23]
In November 2015 Cleverly was criticised for pushing through the closure of 10 fire stations in London after the death of an elderly man in Camden following delays in the arrival of fire crews. In response, Cleverly said: "It is impossible for them to say that with certainty. I think it would be much wiser for the FBU to wait for the details of that fire investigation to come out before they start making these opportunistic allegations."[24]
In January 2016, the Labour Party proposed an amendment to the Housing and Planning Bill 2016[25] that would have required private landlords to make homes which they put up for rent "fit for human habitation". According to Parliament's register of interests, Cleverly was one of 72 Conservative MPs who voted against the amendment and who personally derived an income from renting out property. The Conservative Government had responded to the amendment by saying that they believed homes should be fit for human habitation but did not want to pass the new law that would explicitly require it.[26]
In March 2016 Cleverly was asked to step down as patron of Advocacy for All, a charity supporting disadvantaged people in South East England. The charity felt he was no longer a suitable person for the role, given that he had voted to cut Employment and Support Allowance (the benefit paid to disabled people who are unable to work).[27][28]
Cleverly advocated a vote for Brexit in the 2016 EU membership referendum.[29]
Cleverly was re-elected, with an increased majority (62.8% of the votes cast), at the 2017 general election.[30] In January 2018 he was appointed as a deputy chairman of the Conservative Party[31] before moving to become a junior minister at the Department for Exiting the European Union in April 2019.
In October 2018 Cleverly defended Conservative London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey over potentially Islamophobic and Hinduphobic comments he had made in a pamphlet and suggested that black boys were drifting into crime as a result of learning more about faiths other than "their own Christian culture".[32]
On 29 May 2019, Cleverly announced he was standing to replace Theresa May in the 2019 Conservative leadership election,[33] but announced his withdrawal from the race on 4 June 2019.[34]
Following the appointment of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, Cleverly was appointed Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party, serving alongside Ben Elliot.
In the 2020 cabinet reshuffle, Cleverly was appointed Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa.
In September 2020, he expressed concern about a "looming" famine in Yemen.[35] In March 2021, Cleverly described the situation in Yemen as one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.[36] In March 2022, he said that attempts to compare Saudi Arabia to Russia are "ridiculously distasteful". He called Saudi Arabia an "incredibly influential country in the region" and a "significant oil and gas producer."[37]
On 7 July 2022, Cleverly succeeded Michelle Donelan as Secretary of State for Education, a post that he held for almost two months.[38]
Foreign Secretary
Cleverly was appointed Foreign Secretary by incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss on 6 September 2022.
Cleverly attended the UN Security Council meeting on 22 September, where he called on other countries to reject the annexation referendums due to take place in Russian-occupied areas in Eastern and Southern Ukraine.[39]
On 20 October, he announced that the United Kingdom would pursue sanctions against Iran for supplying drones to attack civilian targets in Ukraine. Cleverly stated that "Iran cannot be allowed to violate UN resolutions".[40]
Cleverly endorsed former Prime Minister Boris Johnson ahead of the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election but Johnson did not end up standing and Cleverly instead endorsed Rishi Sunak.[41] Sunak re-appointed him to this position as part of his cabinet on 25 October 2022.
In October 2022, due to doubts raised that British homosexual football fans would be safe at the 2022 Football World Cup taking place in Qatar, Cleverly suggested that they should show "a little bit of flex and compromise".[42] He added that he thought it was "important when you're a visitor to a country that you respect the culture of your host nation." He described Qatar as "an Islamic country with a very different set of cultural norms to our own [those of Britain]".[43] Labour called his advice "shockingly tone-deaf",[44] due to the fact that gay activity is illegal in Qatar and that Cleverly had known that if gay people expressed their homosexuality openly in Qatar they would be arrested. Earlier in 2022, LGBT organisations stated that "progress has been slow" in attempting to ensure the safety of LGBT football fans with FIFA in Qatar – and additionally that reassurances from Qatar had "not been adequate".[45] In Qatar sex between men carries a penalty of up to 7 years in prison.[43]
In May 2022, the country's emir, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, said that he believed criticism about Qatar being chosen to host the World Cup came from "people who cannot accept the idea that an Arab Muslim country would host a tournament like the World Cup".[43][46] Sunak's spokesperson distanced itself from Cleverly's comments, saying that fans should not have to "compromise who they are", as well as that "Qatar's policies are not those of the UK Government and not ones we would endorse".[47]
Later, in late November 2022, Cleverly stated that his actions were "about ensuring that the English and Welsh fans going over to enjoy the football were safe and happy and that they enjoyed themselves whilst watching the tournament."[48]
Despite human rights violations in Saudi Arabia, Cleverly called Saudi Arabia a strategic partner.[49]
In early December 2022, he met his Norwegian counterpart, Anniken Huitfeldt, to discuss continued military cooperation and attended the annual Christmas tree lighting.[50]
In January 2023, Cleverly met again with Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, in Washington, DC to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine, recent events in Iran following the anti-regime protests occurring there among other issues, as well as to reaffirm the UK's special relationship with the United States.[51]
Cleverly was criticised by Conservative MPs, including Liz Truss, for refusing to reclassify China as a "threat" in response to the Chinese government's aggressive foreign policy and its human rights abuses of the Uyghur Muslim community.[52] He called China a potential "partner for good".[53]
On July 19, 2023, Cleverly made a public statement following his being named as a possible successor to the departing Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace. Cleverly asked Prime Minister Sunak to leave him in his current position, because he said he really likes the job. He stated that if he was removed from his post, "you will see nail marks on the parquet floor in my office".[54]
Personal life
Cleverly married Susannah Sparks in 2000; the couple have two sons.[2] Cleverly lives in Blackheath, Southeast London.[55]
His cousin Chris Cleverly is a lawyer and businessman.[56]
Cleverly is a fan of the miniature wargame Warhammer 40,000; he has a private YouTube channel dedicated to painting the game's miniatures.[57]
Honours and decorations
Cleverly was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (TD) for 12 years' commissioned service in the Territorial Army in January 2012,[59][60] as well as the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012,[61] the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal in 2022 and the King Charles III Coronation Medal in 2023.
He was sworn of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom on 8 October 2019 at Buckingham Palace as part of his appointment as Minister without portfolio and Conservative Party Chairman in the Johnson ministry. This entitled him to the honorific title "The Right Honourable" for life.[62]
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| Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal |
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| Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal |
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| King Charles III Coronation Medal |
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| Efficiency Decoration (TD) |
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| Volunteer Reserves Service Medal |
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Notes
- ^ As Minister of State for Europe. Rehman Chishti assumed responsibility for North America.
- ^ Jointly with the Department for International Development until September 2020; Middle East and North Africa until December 2021.
- ^ As Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East. The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon assumed responsibility for North Africa.
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It turns out the Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, is a fan. His private YouTube channel is dedicated to following expert miniatures painters. In 2012, he tweeted out a video on how to paint Astorath the Grim, high chaplain of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter.
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External links
- Official website
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
- Appearances on C-SPAN