Alan Duncan

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Business career

Duncan, a graduate from Oxford, worked as a trader of oil and refined products, first with Royal Dutch Shell (1979–81), then for Marc Rich from 1982 to 1988 (Rich became a fugitive from justice in 1983). He worked for Rich in London and Singapore. Duncan from 1988 to 1992, serving as an oil consultant and advisor to foreign governments on oil production, shipping, and refining.

Duncan founded Harcourt Consultants, which provides advice on oil and gas problems in 1989. After Kuwait's supplies were interrupted in the Gulf War, he made more than £1 million after assisting with the urgent need to supply oil to Pakistan.

Political career

Duncan lived in Singapore from 1979 to 1984, and he returned in 1986. After Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigned in November 1990, he sold his home in Westminster as the home of John Major's leadership campaign.

Duncan first ran for Parliament as a Conservative candidate in the 1987 general election, but failed to run for the safe Labour seat of Barnsley West and Penistone. He was elected as the Conservative nominee for Rutland and Melton, a safe Conservative seat that was held by a 59% majority. In the 1997 Labour Landlide, his share of the vote was down to 46%, but it has since increased to 48 percent in 2001, 51% in 2005, and 51% in 2010.

Duncan served on the Social Security Select Committee from 1993 to 1995. His first government role was as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Health, a post he gained in December 1993. He resigned from the position within a month after finding that he had used the Right to Buy scheme to make money on real estate deals. Under Right to Buy rules, it was revealed that he had borrowed his elderly neighbor money to buy his house. Just over three years later, the neighbor purchased an 18th-century council house at a substantial discount and sold it to Duncan. "Irving Alan Duncan has fallen on his sword," Gyles Brandreth says of the event in his diary. He did it quickly and with great grace."

He became Chairman of the Conservative Backbenches Constitutional Affairs Committee after returning to the backbenches. He returned to office in July 1995, this time to the Conservative Party's Chairman, Brian Mawhinney. Duncan carried out a citizen's arrest on an Asylum Bill protester who threw paint and flour at Mawhinney on College Green in November 1995.

Duncan was involved in the 1997 leadership race, as the eventual winner, right-hand man of William Hague. He was dubbed "the closest thing [the Conservatives] have to Peter Mandelson] in this role. Duncan and Hague were both students at Oxford, having been Presidents of the Oxford Union, and they had been close friends since the early 1980s.

Duncan was given the positions of Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party and Parliamentary Political Secretary to the Party Leader in June 1997 as a reward for his service to Hague during the leadership election. In June 1998, he became Shadow Health Minister. He was named in September 2001 as a front-bench spokesman on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, a year later.

Duncan became the Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs when Michael Howard took over the Conservative Party leadership in November 2003, but Duncan was not promoted to the top table when Howard dramatically reduced the Shadow Cabinet's number. When he was appointed to become Shadow Secretary of State for International Development in September 2004, this was still the case. Following the 2005 general election, the Shadow Cabinet was enlarged to its original size once more, and Duncan joined it as Shadow Secretary of State for Transport.

Since David Cameron's election to the party's leadership the previous day, he was in office for just seven months. As new Prime Minister Gordon Brown had dissolved the Department of Trade and Industry the previous week, replacing it with the aforementioned new department, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise, and Reform, he was named Shadow Secretary of State for Industry, Growth, and Regulation Reform on July 2nd, 2007. Duncan became House Shadow Leader in January 2009.

He had been speculated to be organizing a leadership campaign in the event that then-leader Michael Howard resigned after a (then-likely and later) election defeat. Duncan declared his intention to run in the 2005 leadership race on June 10, 2005. However, on July 19, 2005, he resigned from the party due to a shortage of 'active lieutenants,' and warned the party to avoid those that he referred to as the 'Toy Taliban.'

Duncan's most recent appearance on the show, in which he boasted about his second home allowance, was described as "a marvel device," according to the programme's satirical BBC programme Have I Got News for You. Duncan would return money to the fees office, according to Duncan's personal apology in which he requested that the system be changed, but Duncan didn't.

Duncan said on August 14 (while being caught without his knowledge by Don't Panic) that MPs, who were earning around £64,000 a year, were "to live on rations and are treated like jerks." I spend my money on my garden and get a tiny fraction of what is right. And I could claim the entire lot, but I don't." These remarks piqued the attention of the media, and commentators from both directions were outraged. Duncan apologised once more, and Cameron, who had been dismissive of Duncan's remarks, denied that he would be dismissed from the Shadow Cabinet. Despite these promises, Duncan was "demoted" from the Shadow Cabinet to become Shadow Minister for Prisons on September 7, 2009, after he and Cameron came to an agreement that his position was untenable.

Since 2006, the Rutland and Melton Constituency Association has received £12,166.66 in donations. Duncan has received corporate support from The Biz Club (£6,000, 2006–2009), Midland Software Holdings (£8,000, 2007–09), and ABM Holdings (£1,500, 2009). Duncan also received tens of thousands of pounds in private individual donations.

What are Duncan's political ambitions?"

Duncan said, referring to the Hinkley Point C initiative, that "on no account should there be any kind of subsidy for nuclear energy."

He discovered himself under pressure in August 2011 to delete a video accusing Israel of a "land grab" in the occupied territories. "Indeed, just as we rightly assign someone to public office if they refuse to recognise Israel," Duncan said in a speech to the Royal United Services Institute in October 2014, so we should avoid anyone who refuses to admit that negotiations are illegal." No settlement endorsers should be allowed to run for public office, remain a member of a mainstream political party, or sit in a parliament. How can we recognize senators in our country or another region if they favor lawbreakers in another country? "All know that the US is in shock to a huge financial lobby that controls its politics," he said in a BBC Radio interview related to the speech and another given during a House of Commons debate on Palestinian statehood. A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Duncan, described him as "breathtakingly one-sided" when speaking out in response to his comments.

Duncan was instrumental in blocking fuel deliveries to Tripoli, Libya, during the Libyan war, according to an article in August 2011. The former oil trader in April 2011 convinced the UK prime minister to install the so-called 'Libyan oil cell', which was run out of the Foreign Office.

The cell was advised by NATO to blockade Zawiya's port in order to stifle Gaddafi's war efforts. They also helped identify other passages by which the smugglers were able to get fuel into Libya via Tunisia and Algeria.

Traders and rebels in Benghazi were able to sell fuel to rebels, who were able to move the oil via phone.

According to one Whitehall source, the electricity noose tightened around Tripoli's neck.' Bombs were much more cost-effective and quicker to repair than bombs. It's similar to taking the key of the vehicle away. You can't move. If Gaddafi goes, the great thing is that you can restart it all over again. It is not the same as if you had bombed the entire city to ruins.

On the inauguration of the Coalition government, he was appointed to the Privy Council on May 28.

The Lobby, Al Jazeera's series, aired in January 2017. Shai Masot, a senior official at the Israeli embassy in London, suggested an effort to "take down" British "Pro-Palestinian" politicians, including Duncan. Jeremy Corbyn, the opposition leader, wrote an open letter to Theresa May, threatening what he calls a "improper interference in this country's democratic process" and urging the prime minister to open an investigation on the grounds that "[t]his is obviously a national security issue." Mark Regev, the Israeli ambassador, apologized to Duncan for the "completely insensitive" remarks made in the video. "It's clear that these remarks do not represent the views of the embassy or government of Israel," a Foreign Office spokesperson, effectively dismissing Corbyn's remarks. Masot resigned shortly after the recordings were released. Pro-Israeli demonstrators and a former Israel Embassy employee pleaded with Ofcom, but Ofcom denied all charges.

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