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Martin Horwood for Cheltenham Liberal Democrats
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His parents lived first in St.Mark’s and then in Leckhampton, where his mother still lives today. Martin joined the Cheltenham Young Liberals while still at school here in 1979, inspired by the Liberal Party’s local campaigning and their commitment to issues like the environment and third world development.
He went to Oxford University to read Modern History in 1981, and was elected President of the Oxford Student Liberal Society and then Chair of the party’s national student wing, the Union of Liberal Students.
After graduating and leaving student politics, Martin worked first in a London advertising agency and then in the voluntary sector. In 1990 he moved to Oxford to work for Oxfam and was elected as a local district and parish councillor there. Martin fought the 1992 general election in Oxford East while Nigel Jones won Cheltenham for the Lib Dems. During his stay at Oxfam, Martin’s teams raised tens of millions of pounds for the poor in developing countries, including £2.5m for victims of the Rwanda genocide.
