Christopher Newbury Explained

Christopher Newbury (born 1956) is a British Conservative politician. He was a member of the Congress of the Council of Europe from 1998 to 2010 and since 2009 has been a member of the new Wiltshire Council, created that year.

Early life

Newbury was educated at Gresham's School and Keble College, Oxford.[1] In 1976, he represented the Oxford Union in the Observer Mace debating competition with Benazir Bhutto. In a Ravenscroft production of Macbeth, he played Macbeth opposite Guy Hands as Lady Macbeth.[2]

Council of Europe

Newbury was appointed to the UK Delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe in 1998 to represent English and Welsh Independents. From 1999 he specialised in monitoring local democracy and observing elections,[3] preparing Congress reports on local democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001 and 2006),[4] [5] Armenia (2003),[6] Luxembourg (2004),[7] [8] Liechtenstein (2005),[9] [10] Serbia (2010)[11] and Russia (2010).[12]

His report on local and regional democracy in Russia (2010) recommended the reintroduction of direct elections for regional governors, making it possible to register new political parties "without the need to demonstrate an impractically large number of members", ending the use of closed lists in elections, and measures to deal with corruption.[13]

In a report on Liechtenstein (2006), Newbury said the situation in Liechtenstein was "remarkable and indeed enviable".[14]

He also headed election observations in Kosovo (2001),[15] the Ukraine (2002),[16] Armenia (2002),[17] Gagauzia, Moldova (2003),[18] and Palestine (2005).[19] He was rapporteur for the observation of the presidential election in Serbia of 2004,[20] and for elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004,[21] and took part in other election observations.[22]

In 2000 and 2008 he represented the Congress at meetings of the Venice Commission[23] [24] and in 2003 was the rapporteur of the Congress on Public Ethics at the Local Level.[25] He also served as rapporteur on the revision of the European Charter of Local Self-Government.[3] [26] [27] In 2007 he was against the Kyoto Protocol.[28]

He retired from the Congress in 2010.[1]

Wiltshire

Newbury became a member of Wiltshire County Council in 1997. He chaired the Wiltshire Victoria County History Committee from 2002[29] until its winding up in 2014.[30]

Since the 2009 election, his Wylye Valley electoral division covers the river valley south off Warminster, and parts of Salisbury Plain.[31] [32] He was elected in 2013 as a Conservative, but before that stood as an Independent.[1] In 2016 he was Vote Leave Coordinator for South West Wiltshire.[1]

He has complained about the concreting of the Westbury White Horse: "Chalk is a lovely white substance. Concrete starts out pale grey and gets less and less pale grey."[33]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.westwilts-communityweb.com/site/Christopher-Newbury/CV.htm Christopher Newbury CV
  2. Kennedy, Siobhan, Business big shot: Guy Hands dated 30 July 2007, online at timesonline.co.uk
  3. Halvdan Skard et al., 50 Years of Local Democracy in Europe (Council of Europe, 2007) Page 67, books.google.com
  4. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=822879 CoE Recommendation 103 (2001)
  5. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1057351&Site=COE&BackColorInternet=DBDCF2&BackColorIntranet=FDC864&BackColorLogged=FDC864 Recommendation 202 (2006)
  6. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=859603 CoE Recommendation 140 (2003)
  7. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=866573 CoE Recommendation 172 (2005)
  8. Official report of debates: 12th session (31 May-2 June 2005) (Strasbourg, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe, Council of Europe, 2006), p. 91: "Christopher NEWBURY (United Kingdom, EPP/CD), Rapporteur, said that Luxembourg was an adult democracy that generally respected the provisions of the Charter..."
  9. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=994765 CoE Recommendation 196 (2006)
  10. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1133297&Site=COE&BackColorInternet=DBDCF2&BackColorIntranet=FDC864&BackColorLogged=FDC864 Chamber of Local Authorities 14th PLENARY SESSION
  11. https://wcd.coe.int/wcd/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1641129&Site=DC Monitoring of local and regional democracy in Serbia from 29 June to 1 July 2010
  12. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1561117&Site=DC Monitoring of local and regional democracy in Russia
  13. https://wcd.coe.int/wcd/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1696907&Site=CM Local and regional democracy in the Russian Federation
  14. Official Report of Debates, 13th Session (30 May – 1 June 2006), p. 85 at books.google.com
  15. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=886359 CoE Report on Kosovo elections 2001
  16. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=886255 Report on Ukrainian elections 2002
  17. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=851407 Report on Armenian elections 2002
  18. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=891829 Report on Moldova elections 2003
  19. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?Ref=PR706(2005)&Sector=secDCR&Language=lanEnglish&Ver=original Report on Palestinian elections 2005
  20. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=891439&Site=COE&BackColorInternet=DBDCF2&BackColorIntranet=FDC864&BackColorLogged=FDC864 Report on the observation of the presidential election in the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro (13 and 27 June 2004)
  21. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=808827 Report on the Municipal Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 October 2004)
  22. Kosovo in 2000, Municipal elections in Kosovo – 28 October 2000 dated 15 December 2000 at coe.int; Montenegro in 2002, Report on the local elections in Montenegro (15 May 2002) at coe.int; Moldova in May and June 2003, Report on the local elections observation mission to MOLDOVA (25 May and 8 June 2003) at coe.int; Albania in October 2003, Report on the observation of the local elections in Albania held on 12 October 2003 at coe.int; Azerbaijan in 2004, Press release- 640 (2004) Council of Europe Congress to observe local elections in Azerbaijan (dated 16 December 2004) at coe.int, and again in 2009,Elections in Azerbaijan – 23 December 2009 at coe.int; Armenia Congress delegation declares local elections in Armenia generally satisfactory and calm dated 17 October 2005 at coe.int, and Macedonia in 2005, Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20050404163330/http://www.coe.int/T/E/Com/Press/News/NoteRedac2005/20050310_fyrom.asp . 4 April 2005 . Observation mission of the Congress in "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" ]. 10 March 2005 . Council of Europe . ; and Adjara in 2008, The elections to the Supreme Council of Adjara show sporadic progress dated Tbilisi, 4 November 2008, at coe.int
  23. http://www.venice.coe.int/docs/2000/CDL-PV(2000)045-e.asp PLENARY MEETING Venice, 15–16 December 2000 Meeting Report
  24. http://www.venice.coe.int/docs/2008/CDL-AD(2008)018-f.asp?PrintVersion=True rapport de réunion, Venise, le 12 juin 2008 à 14 h
  25. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=897107&Site=COE&BackColorInternet=DBDCF2&BackColorIntranet=FDC864&BackColorLogged=FDC864 Agenda of the Chamber of Local Authorities, May 2003
  26. https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1133735&Site=COE&BackColorInternet=DBDCF2&BackColorIntranet=FDC864&BackColorLogged=FDC864 Recommendation 218 (2007)
  27. European Committee on Local and Regional Democracy (CDLR), Meeting Report 10 June 2008 (agenda item 4.4) at coe.int
  28. Official Report of Debates 14th Session. Council of Europe. 2007. 129, 131.
  29. A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 17 (2002), pp. 14–15, Wiltshire Victoria County History Committee as at 28 February 2002, from british-history.ac.uk
  30. Web site: The Trust. 2022-02-08. Wiltshire Victoria County History. en-GB.
  31. http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/58291/Wiltshire-Boundary-Review.pdf Wiltshire Boundary Review
  32. http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/council/elections/forthcomingelections/unitaryandparishelections/electionsmay2013unitary.htm?id=88 Warminster Copheap and Wylye election
  33. News: White horse fades to old grey mare. Savill. Richard. 5 January 2001. The Telegraph. 20 January 2019. en-GB. 0307-1235.

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