Guto Bebb
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| Constituency | Aberconwy |
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| Born | October 9, 1968  Wales |
| Political party | Conservative Party |
Guto Bebb born in Wrexham (October 9, 1968) is a Welsh Conservative Party politician.
[edit] Background
Guto Bebb has lived in North Wales for most of his life. A Welsh-speaker he is married with five children. Educated at Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen, Caernarfon he is a graduate of Aberystwyth University (BA History). He has been a partner in the Egin Partnership, an Economic Development Consultancy based in North Wales, since 1993. He has been self-employed since the age of 24 and is a strong advocate of the need for Wales to develop a much stronger entrepreneurial society. He also founded a Bookshop in partnership with his wife, a business that continues to trade in Caernarfon. Guto Bebb was also a Member of the Board of Business for Sterling Cymru and a founding member of the Council of No-Euro Cymru.
He is currently a member of the 'I Want a Referendum' campaign advocating a vote on the Lisbon Treaty and was instrumental in bringing an unofficial campaign to the Aberconwy constituency in February 2008.
[edit] Political career
Formerly a Member of Plaid Cymru (his grandfather was one of the founders of Plaid Cymru), he was a member of Dafydd Wigley's re-election team in 1997 and Chair of Plaid Cymru in the Caernarfon Constituency between 1998 and 2001. After Dafydd Wigley announced that he no longer intended to continue as Member of Parliament beyond the next General Election, Guto stood for but failed to secure Plaid Cymru's nomination to succeed him as their prospective candidate in a ballot of local Caernarfon constituency members in December, 1999.
Despite surviving two votes of confidence in his position as Chairman, due to his views on the European Single Currency, he resigned from Plaid Cymru in March 2001 following a concentrated effort from Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM and Elin Jones AM (Plaid National Chairman at the time) to discipline him due to comments made on a Radio Cymru news programme. He joined the Conservative Party in October 2001. He is an experienced campaigner having fought Conwy at the 2003 Assembly Elections and the 2005 Westminster Election.
Having decided not to stand in the 2007 Assembly Elections due to family reasons he was re-selected as the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Aberconwy at the next General Election in July 2007.
