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8 September 1960
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De Montfort University
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Biography
Gary Andrew Porter, Baron Porter of Spalding CBE is a British Conservative politician, local government leader, member of the House of Lords and a South Holland (Lincolnshire) district councillor, who was elected unopposed as Chair of the Local Government Association in June 2015. Nominated for a life peerage in August 2015, he was created Baron Porter of Spalding, of Spalding in the County of Lincolnshire on 15 October 2015.
He was educated at De Montfort University (BA, 2000) and Canterbury Christ Church University (Postgraduate Certificate, 2011).