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Tom Tugendhat

Tom Tugendhat is a 49-year-old British politician. He is currently a member of the Conservative Party. Tugendhat was the son of a High Court judge and his French wife, Blandine de Loisne, and was born in Westminster, London.

He studied theology at the University of Bristol before pursuing a Master’s degree in Islamic studies at Cambridge’s Gonville and Caius College.

Tom Tugendhat military career: What did Tom Tugendhat do in the army?

Tugendhat was commissioned into the Educational and Training Services Branch of the Adjutant General’s Corps, Territorial Army, British Army on July 6, 2003.

He also worked as a civilian for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in Afghanistan, where he helped establish the National Security Council of Afghanistan and the government in Helmand Province.

Tugendhat was elected to the Tonbridge and Malling constituency in the 2015 general election. In the 2016 referendum, he voted against Brexit, favoring continued membership in the European Union.

In January 2017, he wrote that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “doesn’t matter” to Arab Spring protesters.

He has called for an end to the “flow of dirty money” from Russia into the UK via London, and he has criticized Linklaters’ refusal to testify before the committee.

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