Andrew Griffiths

Quick Facts

Full Name	Andrew Griffiths
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Oct 19, 1970(1970-10-19)
Age	54
Birthplace	Dudley
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Dudley
Horoscope	Capricorn

Andrew Griffiths Biography

Andrew Griffiths is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on October 19, 1970 in Dudley, Dudley, United Kingdom. Andrew James Griffiths was born on 19 October 1970 in Dudley, Staffordshire to Robert and Harriet Griffiths (née Du’Rose). He attended Bramford Primary School and High Arcal School. He is the youngest of their five children. His father was a local councillor for 34 years and served as Mayor of Dudley in

1982. After finishing secondary school, Griffiths joined the family engineering business. He then worked for the Leeds Permanent Building Society (now merged with the bank Halifax).

Griffiths was elected at the 2010 general election for Burton, regaining the seat for the Conservatives for the first time since 1997 when it was held by Ivan Lawrence from 1974. Griffiths was re-elected at the 2015 General Election He served as Secretary of the All-party parliamentary group (APPG) for the Misuse of Drugs and Alcohol, Additional General Secretary of the APPG for Kashmir, and Vice-Chairman of the APPG for Home Education. He was Chairman of the APPG for Beer for five years and campaigned against increased taxes on beer (the beer duty escalator). He was a member of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee between 2010 and 2013.

In February 2015, Griffiths was awarded Parliamentarian of the Year by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) in recognition of his role in campaigning for the reduction of tax increases on beer. The award sparked controversy from some CAMRA campaigners due to Griffiths’ opposition to other CAMRA campaigns on increasing planning controls on public houses, to prevent their loss, and for opposing reform to the controversial system of “beer ties” which oblige landlords to pay higher prices to the chain owners (pubcos) for their beer supplies.

Following Theresa May becoming Prime Minister in July 2016, Griffiths was appointed as a Government Whip and Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury on 17 July 2016.

After the election, he became chief of staff to MP Theresa May. In 2006, he moved to work for the Culture, Media and Sport team, working as Chief of Staff to MP Hugo Swire. After Swire was sacked as part of a cabinet reshuffle, Griffiths became Chief of Staff to Eric Pickles, Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, and remained Pickles’ Chief of Staff when he became the Party chairman. He was a member of the A-List and was selected as a parliamentary candidate for Burton in November 2006.

Andrew Griffiths Net Worth

Andrew Griffiths is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andrew Griffiths 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Andrew James Griffiths (born 19 October 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Burton from 2010 to

2019. He was succeeded by his estranged wife, Kate Griffiths. Prior to his political career, he worked for the Leeds Permanent Building Society and for his family’s engineering business.

In 1999, Griffiths began to work for the West Midlands MEP team in the European Parliament in Brussels, before being appointed adviser on farming. He worked for the European Agricultural Spokesman Neil Parish MEP. Griffiths stood as a Conservative council candidate on three separate occasions, but was not elected. He first contested the safe Labour seat of Dudley North at the 2001 general election, coming in 6,800 votes behind Labour’s Ross Cranston. Griffiths unsuccessfully stood as a Conservative candidate at the 2004 European Parliament election in the West Midlands constituency.

Griffiths married Kate Kniveton in 2013, the two have one daughter born in April 2018. They separated in 2018 and are in the process of finalising a divorce.

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In March 2018, Griffiths was criticised by opposition MPs for blocking an SNP proposal for a bill that would secure the national minimum wage for those working on a “trial period” basis. It was revealed that Griffiths had previously advertised for an unpaid intern position in his own office. In response, Griffiths admitted he had used unpaid interns, but argued that the bill was not needed because existing law was already adequate in this area.

Facts & Trivia

Andrew Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Andrew Griffiths celebrates birthday on October 19 of every year.

During his parliamentary career, he was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from January 2018 until his resignation in July 2018 after the Sunday Mirror reported that Griffiths had sent up to 2,000 sexually explicit text messages to two female constituents.