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Julian Huppert | |
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| Member of Parliament for Cambridge | |
| In office 6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015 | |
| Preceded by | David Howarth |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Zeichner |
| Lib Dem Group Leader on Cambridgeshire County Council | |
| In office October 2004 – May 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Sal Brinton |
| Succeeded by | David Jenkins |
| Cambridgeshire County Councillor for East Chesterton | |
| In office 3 May 2001 – 4 June 2009 | |
| Preceded by | T O'Del |
| Succeeded by | Siep Wijsenbeek |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Julian Leon Huppert 21 July 1978[1] |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom, United States |
| Party | Liberal Democrats |
| Spouse | Dr Caroline Wright[1] |
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| Education | University of Cambridge (MSci, PhD) |
| Website | www |
| Scientific career | |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry[3] |
| Thesis | Studies on genomic G-quadruplexes (2005) |
| Shankar Balasubramanian[2] | |
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Julian Leon Huppert[5] (born 21 July 1978)[1] is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he had previously served as a member of the Cambridgeshire County Council for East Chesterton.
Huppert succeeded David Howarth, who stood down after one term as an MP.[6] At the 2015 general election he lost the seat to Daniel Zeichner of the Labour Party by 599 votes, and failed to retake it at the 2017 general election.
Huppert is the son of the Australian-born geophysicist Herbert Huppert and the psychologist Felicia Huppert. He was born in the United States, and moved to Cambridge when he was three months old.[7] He had a Jewish upbringing, and his family attended Beth Shalom Reform Synagogue in Cambridge.[8] However, he has stated that he is an atheist.[9]
After attending the Perse School in Cambridge, Huppert spent a year at Sydney Grammar School in Australia, winning a silver medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad in 1995.[10][11] At Trinity College, Cambridge, he completed a Master of Science degree in 2000, followed by a PhD in Biological Chemistry in 2005[12] supervised by Shankar Balasubramanian.[3][2]
After his PhD, Huppert was elected a Junior Research Fellow of Trinity College in 2004, and became a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge in 2009, where the previous Cambridge Liberal Democrat MP, David Howarth, was a member. He worked as a research scientist studying the structures of DNA as well as tutoring students.[13]
On returning to academic life in 2015, Huppert lectured on science and technology policy at the Cavendish Laboratory, and in 2016 was appointed as the founding director[14] of a new centre, the Intellectual Forum, based at Jesus College.
During his eight years serving as a County Councillor on Cambridgeshire County Council for Cambridge's East Chesterton area,[15] Huppert helped open Brown's Field Community Centre, chaired the Cambridge Traffic Management Committee and served on the Regional Assembly.[citation needed] His interests in internationalism, the UN and human rights led him to a position on the National Council of Liberty, formerly the National Council for Civil Liberties, from 2009 to 2011.[16]
Huppert unsuccessfully contested Huntingdon at the 2005 general election, before winning the Cambridge seat in the 2010 general election.
Huppert has stated that he wanted to get involved in politics because he believes in "a free, fair and open society, where nobody should be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity."[17] In an interview with the BBC's Today programme shortly after his election as an MP, Huppert stated, regarding negotiations with the Conservative party on possible deals to form a coalition, that whilst he found it "very hard to see how a deal could leave out electoral reform [...] if we got all the rest of our manifesto I'd probably live with that".[18]
As an MP, Huppert proposed a bill to prevent the demolition or change of use of pubs or independent shops without planning permission under the Ten Minute Rule in 2012[19] but the proposals failed to make any further progress. In 2013–14 he was an active supporter of and signatory to the Fair Deal For Your Local campaign,[20] which would be the coalition government's only defeat on a legislative vote.
Huppert was involved in a number of All-party parliamentary groups, being joint chair of the Cycling Group,[21] and a vice chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group,[22] the Refugees group,[23] and the Local Government group.[24] He also sat on the Home Affairs Select Committee.[25]
Huppert expressed disappointment at the lack of scientific understanding amongst MPs.[26] Although he was described by Cambridge Liberal Democrats[27] and The Independent newspaper[28] as "the only scientist" in the House of Commons, in November 2012, Huppert acknowledged other scientists in the House of Commons saying: "Although it has been said that I am the only scientist in the House, that is sadly not true. I am one of two Members with a science PhD and I went on to do research, but there are other scientists in the House and it always a great pleasure to have them here."[29]
In June 2013 he told the BBC that he complained of bullying in the Commons after being greeted by collective groans and shouts of "Oh no" when he rose to his feet in the house.[30][31]
When the Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader stepped down to take a ministerial post, Huppert was talked about as a possible contender for the post.[32]
As co-chair of the all party parliamentary cycling group, Huppert helped to produce the report on the future of cycling in Britain, ‘Get Britain Cycling’, in 2013.[33]
Also in 2013, Huppert secured a debate on Education Funding in Cambridgeshire,[34] which resulted in Cambridgeshire schools receiving an extra £23.2 million in government funding, £2.7 million more than originally expected.[35] In 2014, he presented a bill to parliament to improve conditions for those in the private rented sector.[36] Huppert also co-sponsored the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill,[37] which enshrined in law a commitment by the UK to spend 0.7% of its gross national income (GNI) on aid every year.[38]
Huppert is a cycling safety campaigner and organised[39] and spoke[40] at a parliamentary debate on the subject, as well as passing a motion at the 2013 Liberal Democrat Conference on the subject.[41] His support of the principle of "proportionate liability" has led to debate in his Cambridge Constituency[42][43] and nationally. Huppert was named one of the most influential people in UK cycling by the magazine Bikebiz[44] and was awarded road safety organisation Brake's Road Safety award in March 2013 for his campaign on 20 mph speed limits.[45]
Huppert criticised the decision[46] of the competition commission to force Cineworld[47] to sell the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.[48] He took up the issue in Parliament, claiming the competition commissions should be looking into other monopolies in Cambridge: "To be frank, I start to wonder what the value of the Competition Commission is. In Cambridge we have two big problems with monopoly – Stagecoach’s control of the buses, and Tesco’s control of the supermarkets."[49] He gained the support of the then leader of the house, Andrew Lansley,[50] who represented the neighbouring constituency of South Cambridgeshire.
In November 2014, Huppert launched a campaign[51] to persuade the County Council to invest more in Cambridge's pavements, highlighting the effect even minor damage has on disabled people.
Huppert also campaigned for additional funding for Cambridge schools, which received less per student than anywhere else in the country.[52][53]
Huppert was nominated the most impressive new Liberal Democrat MP elected in the 2010 election by a party website.[54] Huppert's performance has also been highlighted in a number of publications[55][56][57] and he was named as the top backbencher in the Telegraph's list of "Most influential Lib Dems".[58]
Huppert was awarded the "Internet Hero of the year award" by the Internet Service Providers Association for his involvement in the campaign against the Draft Communications Data Bill, also known as the "Snooper's Charter".[59]
Huppert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[3]
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Julian Leon Huppert (born 21 July 1978) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he had previously served as a member of the Cambridgeshire County Council for East Chesterton. Huppert succeeded David Howarth, who stood down after one term as an MP. At the 2015 general election he lost the seat to Daniel Zeichner of the Labour Party by 599 votes, and failed to retake it at the 2017 general election.
Huppert is an Eastern Ashkenazic surname derived from the Galizian Yiddish epithet Hupet/Hup't (הופּט) meaning head or chief. The Western Yiddish equivalent is הויפּט. It is equivalent to Haupt in German. On July 23, 1787, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor issued the decree, known as "Das Patent über die Judennamen" (Patent on Jewish Names). Jews were required to register their chosen German first names and family names with local authorities by the end of November 1787. The edict officially came into force on January 1, 1788. Those who failed to register or comply faced fines or expulsion. After the Austrian Partition of Poland, Berek Szmulewicz (son of Szmul Zbytkower) was the first Ashkenazi "Hupet" of Wieliczka for the Crown. The German name Huppert was simply the only one with a sound which matched the Galizian Yiddish pronunciation of the epithet (הופּט). The German name itself ultimately derives from a nickname describing personal attributes combining Old High German (750 to 1050) "Hugh" (meaning "soul", "mind" or "intellect") with "beraht" (meaning "bright" or "shining"), given by the community to certain bright-minded individuals. Notable people with the surname include: Bertram Huppert (1927–2023), German mathematician Boyd Huppert (born 1962), American TV journalist Dave Huppert (born 1957), baseball player Herbert Huppert (born 1943), geophysicist Hugo Huppert (born 1902) Jewish poet, translator and writer Isabelle Huppert (born 1953), French actress Jennifer Huppert (born 1962), Australian lawyer and politician Julian Huppert (born 1978), British scientist and politician
The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is a guided busway and bus rapid transit that connects Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives in Cambridgeshire, England. It is the longest guided busway in the world, surpassing the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, South Australia. Two guided sections make up 16 miles (25 km) of the route. The northern section, which uses the course of the former Cambridge and Huntingdon railway, runs through the former stations of Oakington, Long Stanton and Histon. The southern section, which uses part of the former Varsity Line to Oxford, links Cambridge railway station, Addenbrooke's Hospital and the park-and-ride site at Trumpington via housing on the Clay Farm site. Services are operated by Stagecoach in Huntingdonshire and Whippet, which have exclusive use of the route for five years in exchange for providing a minimum service frequency between 07:00 and 19:00 each weekday. Specially adapted buses are used: the driver does not need to hold the steering wheel on the guided sections of the busway. A total of 2,500,000 trips were made in the first year of operation. The busway was proposed in the 2001 Cambridge-Huntingdon Multi-Modal Study, which recommended widening the A14 road and the construction of a guided busway along the old railway lines. Construction began in March 2007 and it was opened on 7 August 2011 after a succession of delays and cost overruns. The original cost estimate of £116 million rose to £181 million by December 2010. An independent review of the project was announced on 21 September 2010, in which the Cambridge MP, Julian Huppert, described the busway as a "white elephant". A court case with BAM Nuttall, the main contractor, was settled by Cambridgeshire County Council in August 2013.
Sarah Brown is an English transgender activist and former Liberal Democrat politician. She was the Cambridge City Councillor for Petersfield ward between 2010 and 2014, serving as Executive Councillor for Community Wellbeing since 2013 and served as a member of the LGBT+ Liberal Democrats executive. She is a trans woman and, for several years, was the only openly transgender elected politician in the UK. In 2011, she appeared on the Independent on Sunday "Pink List" as the 28th most influential LGBT person in the UK, dropping to 34th in the 2012 list, but rising again to 27th in the 2013 list. Brown is an advocate for equal marriage, and has several times discussed marriage laws as they affected her; her 2001 marriage to her wife Sylvia Knight was annulled upon gaining a Gender Recognition Certificate in 2009, and she described her subsequent civil partnership to Knight as a "kick in the teeth". Her case was cited during the report stage of the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill, when her MP Julian Huppert moved a series of amendments, which included a set intended to allow couples who dissolved their marriages under the Gender Recognition Act to retroactively restore their marriage. Brown also advocates for improved provisions for transgender people under the National Health Service, and created the "#transdocfail" hashtag on Twitter and collated several thousand tweets talking about abuse of transgender patients that she alleges exposed "institutional transphobia" in the medical profession that "would be on the national news" if it "was happening to any other minority". Brown is currently in a polyamorous relationship with Knight and fellow former Liberal Democrat and transgender activist Zoe O'Connell, although none of them describe themselves as "poly evangelists". All three partners contributed to a Guardian column discussing polyamory in the context of transition and Brown's previous marriage, which was later cited by Huppert during the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill debate. She is currently a trustee of Cambridgeshire LGBT charity the Kite Trust and a member of Stonewall's Trans Advisory Group.
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