Robin Millar | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2020 | |
| Member of Parliament for Aberconwy | |
| In office 12 December 2019 –30 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Guto Bebb |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 October 1968 Bangor,Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester [1] |
Robin John Millar (born 15 October 1968) [2] is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberconwy from 2019 to 2024. [3] [4] [5]
Robin Millar was born in Bangor in 1968,where his father was chairman of the Conwy Conservative Association. [6] Millar went to Ysgol Friars School,then studied civil engineering at UMIST and later moved to Suffolk to support his wife’s work as an equine veterinary nurse. [7] While living there he worked as a civil engineer in Cambridge,Russia,the Netherlands and the USA. He later set up Millar Consulting helping to transform public services,local government and membership organisations. [8]
Millar started his political career in 2003 as a member of Forest Heath Council for the All Saints ward in Newmarket. [9] Millar was deputy leader of Forest Heath Council and Mayor of Newmarket in 2003. [10] When journalist Bill Curtis asked Millar why he got into politics,he told the interviewer that he has 'always been a problem solver'.
He contested the Arfon constituency at the 2010 general election,finishing in 3rd place with 16.7% of the vote. He later became a member for both Suffolk County Council for the Newmarket and Red Lodge seat and West Suffolk District Council for Newmarket North before becoming an MP in 2019. [11] [12]
He resigned as a director and trustee of the Conservative Christian Fellowship on his election. [13]
In May 2021 Millar wrote an essay entitled "A Common Sense Model for Poverty" for inclusion in Common Sense:Conservative Thinking for a Post-Liberal Age published by the Common Sense Group,an informal group of Conservative MPs. [14]
In October 2022,he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales. [15] Millar resigned from the position on 29 June 2023 in order to vote against new regulations on sex education in Northern Ireland. [16] [17] Robin Millar is currently the Chairman of the Outdoor Learning All Party Parliamentary Group. Millar backed the Outdoor Learning Policy Report,a policy report by UK Youth,in October 2023.
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