C.V.

CHRISTOPHER HOWARTH                        

July 6th 2024 – Publication of my first novel –The Durian Pact

2023 – present Senior Parliamentary researcher, European Research Group.

2022Special Adviser to the Home Secretary Rt Hon Priti Patel MP

2019 General Election. I stood for Parliament and gained one of the largest swings in the country.

2015-2022. Senior Researcher for a group of Conservative MPs. 

2011- 2015 Open Europe – Senior Political Analyst. I wrote one of the first papers looking at the options for UK trade: http://christopherhowarth.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Trading-Places.pdf

2019 General Election. I stood for Parliament in Houghton and Sunderland South increasing the Conservative vote and gaining one of the largest swings to the Conservatives in the country.

2010 – 2011 Conservative Research Department – Foreign Affairs Adviser In this role as the desk officer for the MOD, FCO and DFID.

2006 – 2010 Rt. Hon, Mark Francois MP, shadow P-G & then Shadow Cabinet Minister for Europe – Senior Researcher.

  • Member of George Osborne’s Shadow HMT team preparing tax policy for two budget responses.
  • Member of William Hague’s shadow foreign affairs team (Europe) preparing Conservative response to the Lisbon Treaty and managing to leave the EPP

2001 – 2006 Tax adviser and lawyer for KPMG, PwC and Lovells.

2000-2010 Territorial Army, Queen’s Own Yeomanry in York and Inns of Court and City Yeomanry London.

College of Law, York Postgraduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course

University of St Andrews – 2.1 MA Hons in Medieval History

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-howarth-6aa3a022/?originalSubdomain=uk