Charles Wardle

Charles Wardle
Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle
In office 9 June 1983 – 7 June 2001
Preceded by	Constituency Established
Succeeded by	Gregory Barker
Personal details
Born	(1939-08-23) 23 August 1939
Nationality	British
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Conservative Party (until 2001)

Charles Frederick Wardle (born 23 August 1939) was a Conservative Party member of the British Parliament for Bexhill and Battle.

Wardle announced he would not contest the 2001 election in early 2000 after it was disclosed that he was doing consultancy for Mohammed Al-Fayed. He was replaced by Gregory Barker in the 2001 General Election. He supported the United Kingdom Independence Party's (UKIP) Nigel Farage in that election to replace him.

Education

Wardle was educated at Tonbridge School, a boarding independent school in the market town of Tonbridge in Kent in South East England, where he boarded at School House, followed by Lincoln College at the University of Oxford in the city of Oxford and Harvard Business School, the graduate business school of Harvard University, in the city of Boston in Massachusetts, in the United States.

Life and career

In the Conservative government, Wardle had been an immigration minister under the then-Home Secretary, Michael Howard. In the 2005 general election, he appeared with the Labour Party to denounce his former boss's plans on immigration and to endorse Labour.

He left Parliament to take up a £120,000 post as an adviser to the controversial Mohamed Fayed the previous owner of the Harrods department store whose allegations about political corruption helped to bring down John Major's Conservative government. Mr Wardle then left the board of Harrods just four months after joining