Michael Howard

Early life

Howard was born in Llanelli, Wales, where his Romanian Jewish shopkeeper father Bernard Hecht had moved as an asylum seeker . His mother, Hilda Kershion, was Welsh-born and of Eastern European Jewish ancestry.

Michael Howard, QC, MP (born July 7, 1941) is a British politician and was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party from November 2003 to December 2005.and stayed as the leader until the party had the opportunity to consider whether they wanted to change the rules for electing a successor.