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Andrew Lam

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Name: Andrew Lam
Age: 44 (born 21 February 1977 in Hong Kong)
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Hong Kong British
Sexuality: Homosexual, unmarried
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Discord Username: aboltik

Party: Conservative
Primary Tribe: Free Enterprise Group
Secondary Tribe: Tory Reform Group
Brexit Position: Remain
Constituency: East Hampshire
Year Elected: 2010

Education: Kowloon Junior School (Primary), King George V School (Secondary), University of Manchester (Degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics).
Career: Analyst to Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company (1999 - 2009)
Parliamentary Career: MP for East Hampshire (2010 - Present). Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Enterprise (2012 - 2014). Minister of State for Business and Enterprise (2014 - 2016). Minister of State for Portsmouth (2014 - 2016). Minister of State for Investment (2016 - 2019). Chief Secretary to the Treasury (2019 - Present)

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Andrew Lam was born in Hong Kong in 1977, the son of a senior pilot and later executive for Cathay Pacific and his wife. Andrew attended the English-language international schools in Hong Kong and finished his education there in 1995.

Given his father’s executive position, Andrew and his family became full British citizens under the British Nationality Selection Scheme in the early 1990s, and they relocated to the United Kingdom after Andrew graduated from King George V School. His father took a position at British Aerospace as an executive in the company’s commercial aircraft division, and Andrew went off to university, taking a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Manchester. During his time there he took an interest in the decay of the city and its industrial areas.

Following his degree, Andrew went to work for McKinsey & Company, the noted (famous or infamous, depending on how you look at it) management consulting firm at their offices in London. He moved up positions, focused on their government affairs work. In this capacity he would work with local governments and even the national government on various consulting projects; as an Associate Partner, for instance, he oversaw the company’s work with the Home Office in 2004 and 2005 on performance improvement in the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.

It was during his time with McKinsey (and when he would visit his aging parents at their home outside Farnborough, in Alton, East Hampshire) that Andrew also got heavily involved with Conservative politics. He volunteered with candidates, assisted in fundraising and elections, and even put his name forward as a candidate in local elections in 2003 and 2007 in the Alton Amery ward. Both times he lost to Liberal Democrat Tony Ludlow. He did increase his vote share by 3.5 percentage points between the two elections; it was a rather meaningless achievement but one that Andrew marked down to his own ability. The seat was won by the Conservative candidate in 2011- it wasn’t Andrew, but at the least he claims some credit for the eventual swing.

In 2010, when long-standing East Hampshire MP Michael Mates stood down, Andrew was chosen to stand for the safe Conservative seat, and was elected with a safe majority over the Liberal Democratic candidate. He found close cause with the Free Enterprise Group, which contained a rather large number of young MPs elected at the same time (and also with PPE degrees… which might be a little weird now that you think about it) and enjoyed meeting with them and sharing ideas.

In 2012, Andrew was tapped to become the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Enterprise under Michael Fallon. In 2014, Andrew was again promoted to the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise and the Minister for Portsmouth (assisting in the economic development of the city after BAE Systems’ operations at the shipyard moved to Scotland). He kept these positions until 2016 under a Government reshuffle (when the position of Minister for Portsmouth was abolished). He became the Minister of State for Investment when BEIS was established in 2016, a position he continued to hold after the 2017 election. In 2019 he was asked to join HM Treasury as Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Andrew Lam MP
MP for East Hampshire (2010-) | Conservative

Chancellor of the Exchequer (2021-)
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