Philip Campbell
Philip Campbell | |
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| Prime Minister of Delamaria | |
| Assumed office March 10th, 2023 | |
| Monarch | William V |
| Deputy | Hugo Portland |
| Preceded by | Edward Kingsland (Acting) |
| Member of Parliament for Chipping | |
| Assumed office 2016 | |
| Assistant Foreign Secretary for Policy | |
| In office 2012–2015 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 25, 1977 Great Hampton, New Bedford |
| Political party | Liberal Conservative |
| Spouse | Sophie Campbell |
| Children | 5 |
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Philip Campbell is a Delamarian politician currently serving as Prime Minister of Delamaria and Leader of the Liberal Conservative Party. Campbell had previously served as assistant foreign secretary for policy, and as deputy leader of the congressional United Party, prior to the new parliament and parties.
Campbell was born in 1977 in Swanley-on-Talbot in Labrador. His father, Leonard, was a judge and a senior partner at Logue & Price, his mother Anne was an Olympic equestrian athlete, and the daughter of Sir Raymond Chartesea, 4th Baronet. He attended Loudon School in New Bedford, an elite private school, before attending the University of Westchester, where he studied Politics and International Relations. At Westchester he was captain of the University cricket team, Vice President of the student's union, and spent a term studying abroad in Godstone and Lyrie.
Campbell got his first job as an assistant to the Delamarian ambassador to Great Anglia, he later worked his way up to Special Envoy for Economic Policy in Godstone by 2000. He was soon called back to serve as a senior advisor to the Foreign Secretary. In 2010 he was approached by the United Party to run for office in Labrador but he declined. In 2012 he was appointed Assistant Foreign Secretary for Policy, a highly poweful position which he later combined with the Political Affairs post to create the Assistant Foreign Secretary for Affairs. In 2016 Campbell was once again approached to run for office in the constituency of Chipping in Labrador. Campbell agreed to run but didnt resign his position in government, a move he would be criticised for in the campaign. Campbell won his election outright with a majority of 5,560, and entered congress in January of the following year.
Member of Parliament
Prime Minister
Campbell was formally invited to form a government on the 5th of March, 2023. He immediately went about forming his Cabinet.
Political Views
Campbell has been described as a Liberal Conservative, and has endorsed aspects of Muscular Liberalism. He supports economically liberal views, with mixed liberal and conservative social views. He has criticised overreliance on welfare and supported the welfare cap, ensuring that unemployment welfare is below minimum income, to encourage more to enter work. He supported the recognition of same-sex marriages in 2012, and has expressed support for legal means for transgender persons to transition with some limitations. Campbell has however stated that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete on the same footing especially in women's sports, where he sees the transgender athlete as having an unfair advantage. Campbell is typically critical of high taxation and government intervention in the economy, but has often expressed support for environmentalist policies, and commended the Van Roose government's "51 by 22" goal of having a majority of electricity produced through renewable means by 2022, a goal they surpassed by late 2021. In 2018 Campbell was leader of the United Party Environmental Caucus.
Campbell was described as hawkish early in his career with regards to foreign policy and favours a strong international presence, through diplomatic and military means. Campbell has also criticised high immigration, especially that of the early 2000s. He told The Labrador Times in 2017 that ""We just arent getting the best who want to immigrate to our country", and gave his support to a proposed points based immigration system.