Paul Marland


Paul Marland is a British Conservative politician.

Political career

Marland became a Member of Parliament on his fourth attempt by gaining the marginal seat of West Gloucestershire from Labour in 1979, he was the first Conservative MP for the seat, the other members having been Labour since the seat's creation in 1950. He had fought the seat in the February and October 1974 elections, as well as Bedwellty in 1970.
He served until 1997, when the seat was abolished by boundary changes; as a result he stood in the new Forest of Dean constituency, but lost to Labour's Diana Organ.
He was president of the National Conservative Convention in 2005, and therefore hosted the 2005 Conservative Party Conference.