Welcome to keepandrew.com - the website of  the campaign to re-elect Andrew Turner as the Island's MP.

Andrew Turner was elected MP for the Isle of Wight on 7th June, 2001, having kept the promise he made at the 1997 General Election when he said, "I love the Island. It's a wonderful place to live.  If I am not elected I shall not simply up sticks and look elsewhere, but stay and fight again."  Contact him on keepandrew@isleofwight.com.

Working for you on the Island

Andrew has met thousands of Island residents at their homes and places of work and at all manner of social events. As your Member of Parliament he stays in close touch. He moved from Cowes to Newport in 2003, and is at home there at least three days a week when Parliament is sitting, and of course during Parliamentary recesses. But in the constituency with the largest electorate in the country he cannot possibly meet everyone so you are welcome to contact him on KeepAndrew@IsleofWight.com.

Working for the Island at Westminster

Andrew's key objective is to raise the Island's profile in Westminster and Whitehall.  To this end he has asked literally hundreds of questions relating to the Island's needs and been fortunate enough to win the ballot for debates on Island issues such as care homes, health services, and how an Island abattoir would save animals long journeys to slaughter.   Recently he hosted a reception for parliamentary colleagues to meet Dame Ellen Macarthur, promoting the Island as the home of world yachting.  Andrew's record on speaking in debates and voting in the House of Commons is among the best of all MPs and in the words of a Labour Minister he "never fails to raise his constituent's interests".

Andrew's Experience

Andrew took with him to Westminster considerable experience of government, both local and national, and of the two public services which are valued most by Islanders: health and education. He set up and from 1988 to 1997 ran the Grant-Maintained Schools Foundation, working tirelessly to give new opportunities through self-government to a thousand schools serving over a quarter of the country's secondary pupils. As an education consultant his clients ranged from the Institute of Economic Affairs to the Girls' Day School Trust (which runs Portsmouth High School) and from the US-based Edison Schools to the London Borough of Southwark. He remains passionate to ensure that parents enjoy a wider choice of school, offering a higher standard of education, for their children.

Andrew has worked at the heart of Government in Westminster and Whitehall, where he was Special Advisor at the Department of Health and Social Security, working with Sir Norman Fowler, Michael Portillo and John Major, and was a city councillor for seventeen years - so he knows how good local government is run!

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