As part of the Chamber’s belief that businesses views need to be heard by politicians - and the best people to put across those views are business people themselves. Liverpool Chamber regularly hosts meetings with influential MPs.

Chris Grayling is Shadow Home Secretary, and has run a number of small businesses.

Chris has been a member of the Shadow Cabinet since the General Election in May 2005, serving as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons under Michael Howard, and then Shadow Secretary of State for Transport under David Cameron. He moved to the Shadow Work and Pensions portfolio in July 2007, and was appointed Shadow Home Secretary in January 2009.

Chris started his career at the BCC, first joining their training scheme and then working as a producer for the BCC and Channel 4.   After a few years in television production, he decided to move to the business side of the media industry, and ran a number of small and medium-sized production businesses before moving to become a director in the Employee Communication practice at international communications firm Burson Marsteller. He ended his time there as the firm’s European Marketing Director.

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