About George
George Freeman MP
Member of Parliament for Mid Norfolk
Chair of the Conservative Policy Forum
George Freeman was first elected to Parliament in May 2010 after a 15year career in the Cambridge cluster starting and financing high growth technology businesses.
When elected in 2010 for the new constituency of Mid Norfolk he took the majority from 8000 to 14,000 and increased it again to 17,000 and 62% of the vote in the2017 General Election.
A long time campaigner for political reform (he founded Mind The Gap in 2003, the PositivePolitics! campaign in 2005, and after the fiasco of the 2017 General Election campaign resigned from his role as Chairman of the Prime Minister's Policy Board in No 10 to campaign for Conservative Renewal.
Career in Parliament.
2010
- Elected member of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee
- PPS to the Minister for Energy,
2011
- Appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron as Government Advisor on Life Sciences
- Led the UK Life Science and Agritech Industrial Strategy
- Appointed UK Trade Envoy
2014-16
- Appointed Minister for Life Sciences at the Department of Health and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
- Oversaw the launch of the NHS Genomics Programme, and the UK Life Science Industrial Strategy for NHS Innovation.
2016
- In the Brexit reshuffle Theresa May moved him to No 10 as Chair of the Prime Minister’s Policy Board
2017
- After leading the criticisms of the 2017 Manifesto and election campaign, he resigned from No10 to focus on his campaig for Conservative and National #Renewal.
- His is Chair of the Conservative Policy Forum (CPF)
Big Tent Ideas Festival
- In 2017 he launched the Big Tent Ideas Festival, which this year saw a dazzling array of speakers from all parties join c2000 people for a series of talks in 8 Tents
- The Festival has won support from President Macron, Stephen Fry, Rabbi Sachs and Ruth Davison, and MPs from all parties.
Family
George is the great great great nephew of William Gladstone, the Liberal Prime Minister.
His Great Aunt was Mabel Philipson was the first British Conservative woman MPelected to Parliament shortly after the American Nancy Astor.
George’s father, Arthur Freeman, was jockey to HM The Queen Mother, and won the Grand National in 1958.
He is divorced with two teenage children.
Campaigning history
A long tike political campaigner for reform, George founded and led:
- The Local Identity Agency (1992)
- Mind The Gap (2003)
- Positive Politics (2005)
- before nearly overturning Labour MP Barbara Follett in the then Labour stronghold of Stevenage.
