Andrew Turner

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Andrew John Turner (born 24 October 1953, Coventry) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight.

Turner was an education advisor to the previous Conservative government and founded the Grant Maintained Schools Foundation. He was a councillor on Oxford City Council for several years. In 2000 he worked for the Labour-controlled London Borough of Southwark on outsourcing their education provision following a negative report from Ofsted.

Turner took the Isle of Wight seat in the 2001 general election, after having previously stood in 1997, making one of the few gains for the Conservative Party in 2001.

On 14 August 2006, Turner was attending the Isle of Wight Show with his Jack Russell Terrier, Bert, when he lost hold of the lead. The dog escaped to savage a four-year-old ferret, Socks, to death in front of a watching crowd. Turner later apologised to the ferret's owner, Patricia Price. [1]

On 10 December 2006 it was reported that Turner has suffered a "serious stroke". [2]

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