Mike Tuffrey
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Member of the London Assembly as the 5th Additional Member |
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In office 18 February 2002 – 3 May 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Louise Bloom |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Knight |
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| Born | 30 September 1959 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Michael William Tuffrey is a Liberal Democrat politician and former member of the London Assembly. He took his seat on 18 February 2002 replacing Louise Bloom who had resigned. He was re-elected in 2004 and 2008 leading the Liberal Democrat group and chairing various London Assembly committees. He is a member of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority first appointed in 2002 and serving as leader of the Liberal Democrat Group 2006 to 2008. Tuffrey was appointed to the London Sustainable Development Commission in 2004 and reappointed by Boris Johnson for a second term in 2008.
Tuffrey was narrowly beaten by former Metropolitan Police officer Brian Paddick in standing for nomination as the Liberal Democrats' candidate for Mayor of London in 2012.
Michael Tuffrey was born in Orpington and grew up in Bromley. He was educated at Douai School, an independent Catholic school in Woolhampton. He then studied Economics at Durham University. He moved to Brixton where he got his first job as an accountant and started his political life as a member of the Greater London Council (1985-6) and was a councillor of the London Borough of Lambeth from 1990 to 2002. He stood in Streatham in 1987, in the 1989 Vauxhall by-election, and again in Vauxhall in the 1992 General Election before leading Lambeth Council between 1994 and 1998.
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