What is Eric Pickles?
[[Image:Eric Pickles, October 2009 1 cropped.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Eric Pickles was the British Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.]] '''Eric Jack Pickles''' (born 20 April 1952 in [[Keighley]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], [[England]]) is a [[British people|British]] [[politician]] and was Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat [[coalition]] government. He is the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the [[constituency]] of Brentwood and Ongar in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]]. He was first [[wikt:elect|elected]] in the 1992 general election and entered the [[Shadow Cabinet]] in 2007. He was the Chairman of the Conservative Party from January 2009 to May 2010, when he was replaced by [[Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi]] and was appointed the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government instead. Pickles is standing down at the [[United Kingdom general election, 2017|2017 general election]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39677950|title=Sir Eric Pickles to quit as MP|publisher=BBC News|date=22 April 2017|accessdate=22 April 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pickles, Eric}} [[Category:1952 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs]] [[Category:Members of the British House of Commons for English constituencies]] [[Category:Politicians from Yorkshire]]