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Jonathan Sayeed (born 20 March 1948) is a British politician who was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2005. He was the only member of the Conservative front bench who consistently, openly and publicly opposed the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Even though he was reselected by the Mid Bedfordshire Conservative Association as the Conservative candidate to recontest his seat in the House of Commons shortly before the 2005 General Election, he was forced to retire by ill health. He was criticised by the Committee on Standards and Privileges for being "at the least negligent, at the worst careless" in respect of a company in which he had an interest but was completely cleared of any impropriety.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4375799.stm )〕 In the investigation by Sir Thomas Legg into MPs expenses he was one of the minority of MPs who were completely cleared of any misuse of their second home allowances. == Early life == Jonathan Sayeed was the son of the late M M Sayeed, chartered electrical engineer, and L S Sayeed. He is sometimes described as 'Anglo-Indian' or 'half-Indian' due to his father being Indian;〔http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3761254.stm〕 however Sayeed did not describe himself as a member of an ethnic minority.〔In 1997 "the half-Indian former MP Jonathan Sayeed (who did not identify as an ethnic minority candidate) was returned for Mid-Bedfordshire." p199, Butler, David and Kavanagh, ''The British General Election of 1997'', pub Palgrave Macmillan, 1997, ISBN 0-312-21079-5〕〔"The Anglo-Indian Conservative MP, Jonathan Sayeed, is not included amongst ethnic minority MPs." p206, Butler, David and Kavanagh, Dennis, ''The British General Election of 2001'', pub Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 0-333-74032-7〕 Sayeed was educated at Woolverstone Hall School in Suffolk.〔(St Albans & Harpenden ''News from The Herts Advertiser'' MP for Mid-Bedfordshire - Jonathan Sayeed )〕 He joined the Royal Navy in 1965, when he was 17. He spent two years at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and then studied at the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, for a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.〔 He left the Navy aged 24 in 1973.〔〔'The Fifth Fuel' Issue No. 41 Spring 2002 (this was found on a cached version of ()). The Fifth Fuel is the newsletter of the Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE) 〕 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「Jonathan Sayeed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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