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Andrew John Bower Mitchell (born 23 March 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. He was the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997. He served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development from 2010 to 2012, and then briefly as Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons until he resigned after losing the confidence of many of his colleagues following an alleged altercation with a police officer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Minister Mitchell quits over "pleb" police outburst )〕 Mitchell was elected President of the Cambridge Union in 1978. A former United Nations military peacekeeper, he has extensive pre-government experience of the developing world, and is the founder of Project Umubano, a Conservative Party social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone in central and west Africa, launched in 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=President Kagame Officially Opens Girubuntu Education Center )〕 Mitchell was returned as MP for Sutton Coldfield at the 2015 general election, with his majority increased by 0.6%. ==Early life and career== Mitchell was born at Hampstead in north London, the son of Sir David Mitchell, a former Conservative MP and junior Government Minister. He was educated at Rugby School, at which school the self-confessed "stern disciplinarian" earned the nickname "Thrasher". In February 1975, he was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment, serving in Cyprus during the 1970s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andrew Mitchell (Members of Parliament) )〕 His commission was terminated in October 1975, when he transferred to the General List of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve and was given seniority in his rank from 10 March 1975. He then went to the University of Cambridge, where he read History at Jesus College. He was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association in the Michaelmas Term of 1977. He resigned his British Army commission on 9 February 1977 after serving in the Royal Tank Regiment for eight months on a Short Service Commission. He served as President of the Cambridge Union 1978–79, after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978, later proceeding Master of Arts. Mitchell worked for Lazard, one of the world's largest investment banks, where he worked with British companies seeking large-scale overseas contracts.〔(About Andrew ) www.andrew-mitchell-mp.co.uk〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Mitchell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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