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Phillip Oppenheim



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Phillip Oppenheim, the flamboyant ex Treasury Minister under Ken Clarke, entrepreneur and political pundit is a colourful figure to invite to speak at your event, be it a light hearted after dinner or a more serious business or motivational event.

The youngest Tory MP in 1983, he became Treasury minister and took the last Tory Budget through the Commons in 1997.

Phillip was commonly seen round the Commons with his faithful collie and made Page 3 of the Sun when he went out with a Danish pin up model.

Oppenheim has a tendency to attract controversy and no wonder when he writes and speaks in the media in a style that can only can be termed "close to the bone". He is a regular columnist with national newspapers and a broadcaster on BBC TV, Channel 4 and Radios 4 and 5.

A trade expert and former trade minister, he has written authoritative articles questioning the true benefits of Fairtrade products when so much of the profit goes to supermarkets and middlemen. His books Trade War and The New Masters were also ahead of the game in exposing trade barriers in the developed world as a major contributor to Third World poverty.

As a trade minister he also worked against the fur trade and at the Treasury he extended tax-breaks for 'green' fuels like LPG.

A long-standing bitter critic of the un-elected House of Lords, his irreverent website nopublicfunding.org.uk pours scorn on cash-for-robes, absentee Lords and corrupt party funding.

A born entrepreneur, before becoming an MP he founded the "What to buy for business" publishing group, which he sold for a rather tidy sum to Reed Elsevier in the early '90s.

His current venture is Cubana, the celebrated London Cuban bar-restaurant, has also spawned Carnival de Cuba, the biggest free Cuban carnival outside of the communist island which attracts nearly 100,000 people. Oppenheim also imports rum and coffee from Cuba and writes authoratively on Cuba and Castro.

On the after dinner side, amongst many topics Oppenheim tells of the comedy of being in charge of Customs and Excise though to the fall of Thatcher - how she really went and why she just goes on and on.

From the business side his topics include how to motivate and manage staff - and how staff cheat you. He also talks about how to succeed in business and the secrets of dealing with the media.

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