Wheel Nut:
[She went on to study economics at Southampton University and earn an MBA at the London Business School, before working as an accountant at Price Waterhouse, pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline and gas company Centrica.
She served as a Conservative member of Epping Town Council and unsuccessfully contested Ealing, Acton and Shepherd’s Bush in the 2001 general election. Within months of being elected to Parliament in 2005, Ms Greening was appointed as a vice-chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for youth.
In July 2007, she was appointed as a shadow Treasury minister, before being moved by Mr Cameron in January 2009 to the post of shadow minister for communities and local government. Ms Greening was the youngest female Conservative MP until Chloe Smith - who now replaces her as economic secretary - won the Norwich North by-election in 2009 at the age of 27.
Wheel Nut:
[She went on to study economics at Southampton University and earn an MBA at the London Business School, before working as an accountant at Price Waterhouse, pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline and gas company Centrica.
She served as a Conservative member of Epping Town Council and unsuccessfully contested Ealing, Acton and Shepherd’s Bush in the 2001 general election. Within months of being elected to Parliament in 2005, Ms Greening was appointed as a vice-chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for youth.
In July 2007, she was appointed as a shadow Treasury minister, before being moved by Mr Cameron in January 2009 to the post of shadow minister for communities and local government. Ms Greening was the youngest female Conservative MP until Chloe Smith - who now replaces her as economic secretary - won the Norwich North by-election in 2009 at the age of 27.
Justine Greening, MP Putney, Roehampton and Southfields, has been appointed as Secretary of State for Transport following Philip Hammond’s move to the Ministry of Defence in the wake of the resignation of Liam Fox last week.
Greening has been serving as Economic Secretary to the Treasury since the coalition government came to power in May 2010. Prior to that she was Shadow Treasury Minister.
Hammond had been with the Department of Transport for just 16 months. Greening is the 14th Transport Secretary in 23 years, with each serving an average of 20 months.
It shows how important they think Road Haulage is at the top echelon of Government
It’s a non-department really. Pretty much every transport regulation comes from the EU now.
The Secretary of State’s only real job is to justify spending X billion on the latest meadow-killing railway track, on the basis that it saves 20 minutes off a journey to Birmingham. Everything else is decided in Brussels.
