Jeb Bush

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Basic Information
Jeb Bush is the incumbent leader of the Libertarian Party UK. He has led the party since May 2014 (April 11). He took over as the LPUK leader from Basil Fawlty, who led the party after Sarah Palin resigned as its leader. He is the Member of Parliament for Cornwall North.

Early Life
Bush was born in 1953 in the state of Texas. He was raised by his mother and father and would quickly follow his father's footsteps (and his brother's footsteps) into joining the world of politics. When he was at school, Jeb had an interest in politics all the time, constantly debating his friends, peers and teachers.

When Jeb was old enough to attend college, he studied political science, economics, law and English oracy and literacy combines. He left his college with various degrees. In University, he took his studies of politics further, studying history, Government and politics and English again. He believed that these subjects would help him excel in his later life. He left University in his mid-20s.

Early Political Life
Jeb Bush ran for his local city council in the state of Florida as an independent, but lost to the Republican candidate. He then decided to run for election in his local city council again, but this time as a Republican, and he was successful. He served several months before setting his sights bigger and aiming to one day take on the Whitehouse. In the mid 80s, he ran for Congress, but failed, he ran again the following election, but failed again. Having failed twice now, Jeb believed his career was up before it even started. However, he ran to become the Governor of Florida in 1990 on the GOP ticket.

During his time as Governor, he accomplished many of his promises, including, decreasing poverty levels, decreasing crime levels, decreasing homelessness levels and various other things. However, he was widely scrutinised for his belief of a more federal USA, and his strong opposition to State Legislatures and Senators.

He resigned as Florida's Governor at the peak of his support (67% favourable) and left for the UK in 1999.

Early UK Life
Jeb Bush emigrated to the UK in 1999 and, alongside him, took his passion for politics. He would run to become a Councillor on Cornwall County Council on the Conservative party ticket. He was successful.

In 2005, he ran to become an MP on the Conservative party ticket for Cornwall North, he was successful. He won with 41% of the vote, one of the weakest in Cornwall at the time.

There were various scandals during Jeb's initial first term as an MP, including not knowing how to properly address the Speaker and including not knowing where to go to vote! However, he held his seat nevertheless as the Conservative Party's candidate until the second snap election of 2010, where he stood as a ReformUK candidate.

He won his seat on the Reform ticket and won with just 28% of the vote, he was dubbed as one of the weakest MPs in the entire House of Commons. In spite of this however, Jeb held his seat in 2011 with 43% of the vote. He served as the party's Deputy Chairman until the party came under Basil Fawlty's leadership.

Libertarian Party UK
Jeb Bush was heavily in favour of ReformUK becoming the Libertarian Party, he felt this was a desperately needed change after various scandals hit the party's polling. After Basil Fawlty resigned in May of 2014, everyone was caught by surprise when Basil announced Jeb would be his replacement considering neither of them got along that much.

He became the party's leader in May of 2014 and has served as their leader ever since. He is also one of the longest serving Leaders of ReformUK. He stated in an interview that it was the... "'...privilege of a lifetime to serve and lead a party that I so desperately love and admire... but, to follow Sarah Palin up as leader, that really is quite harrowing when you think about it.'"Under his leadership, the party has grown to higher support than ever before and it is even rumoured that the party is on track to take the upcoming General Election by storm and potential win 50 seats.