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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="The_Right_Honourable" title="The Right Honourable">The Right Honourable</a></div><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">The Lord Vaizey of Didcot</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="Privy_Council_(United_Kingdom)" title="Privy Council (United Kingdom)">PC</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Official portrait, 2020</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="Minister_of_State_for_Culture_and_the_Digital_Economy" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy">Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy</a><a href="#cite_note-1">[a]</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 14 May 2010 – 15 July 2016</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Si%C3%B4n_Simon" title="Siôn Simon">Siôn Simon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Matt_Hancock" title="Matt Hancock">Matt Hancock</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="Department_for_Digital%2C_Culture%2C_Media_and_Sport" class="mw-redirect" title="Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport">Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 7 November 2006 – 6 May 2010</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Malcolm_Moss" title="Malcolm Moss">Malcolm Moss</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Gloria_De_Piero" title="Gloria De Piero">Gloria De Piero</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="Member_of_the_House_of_Lords" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of the House of Lords">Member of the House of Lords</a> <a href="Lord_Temporal" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Temporal">Lord Temporal</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><a href="Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">Assumed office 10 September 2020 <a href="Life_peerage" class="mw-redirect" title="Life peerage">Life peerage</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="Wantage_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wantage (UK Parliament constituency)">Wantage</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 5 May 2005 – 6 November 2019</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Robert_Jackson_(Wantage_MP)" title="Robert Jackson (Wantage MP)">Robert Jackson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="David_Johnston_(British_politician)" title="David Johnston (British politician)">David Johnston</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">

</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"> (1968-06-05) 5 June 1968 <a href="St_Pancras%2C_London" title="St Pancras, London">St Pancras</a>, London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[b]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Alex Holland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">

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</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="John_Vaizey%2C_Baron_Vaizey" title="John Vaizey, Baron Vaizey">John Vaizey, Baron Vaizey</a> (father)</li><li><a href="Marina_Vaizey" title="Marina Vaizey">Marina Vaizey</a> (mother)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Merton_College%2C_Oxford" title="Merton College, Oxford">Merton College, Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vaizey.com">vaizey.com</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

Edward Henry Butler Vaizey, Baron Vaizey of Didcot, <a href="Privy_Council_(United_Kingdom)" title="Privy Council (United Kingdom)">PC</a> (born 5 June 1968) is a British politician, media columnist, political commentator and barrister who was <a href="Minister_for_Culture%2C_Communications_and_Creative_Industries" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries">Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries</a> from 2010 to 2016. A member of the <a href="Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a>, he was <a href="Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) for <a href="Wantage_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wantage (UK Parliament constituency)">Wantage</a> from 2005 to 2019.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2></div>

Vaizey was born in June 1968 in <a href="St_Pancras%2C_London" title="St Pancras, London">St Pancras</a>, London.<a href="#cite_note-3">[1]</a> He is the son of the late <a href="John_Vaizey" class="mw-redirect" title="John Vaizey">John Vaizey</a>, a <a href="Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> (later Conservative) <a href="Life_peer" title="Life peer">life peer</a>, and the <a href="Art_historian" class="mw-redirect" title="Art historian">art historian</a> <a href="Marina_Vaizey" title="Marina Vaizey">Marina Vaizey</a> (The Lady Vaizey CBE). His father's family is from South London. His mother's family, of Polish Jewish descent, is from New York City. He spent part of his childhood in <a href="Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a>. He was educated at <a href="St_Paul's_School%2C_London" title="St Paul's School, London">St Paul's School, London</a> before reading history at <a href="Merton_College%2C_Oxford" title="Merton College, Oxford">Merton College, Oxford</a>. Elected Librarian of the <a href="Oxford_Union" title="Oxford Union">Oxford Union</a>, he graduated with an upper second class degree. After leaving university, Vaizey worked for the Conservative MPs <a href="Kenneth_Clarke" title="Kenneth Clarke">Kenneth Clarke</a> and <a href="Michael_Howard" title="Michael Howard">Michael Howard</a> as an adviser on employment and education issues. He practised as a <a href="Barrister" title="Barrister">barrister</a> for several years, in family law and child care.<a href="#cite_note-4">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-Debretts-5">[3]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2></div>

Vaizey first stood for <a href="Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a> at the <a href="1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997 general election</a>, when he was the Conservative Party candidate for <a href="Bristol_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol East">Bristol East</a>. In the <a href="2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001 general election</a>, he acted as an <a href="Election_aide" class="mw-redirect" title="Election aide">election aide</a> to <a href="Iain_Duncan_Smith" title="Iain Duncan Smith">Iain Duncan Smith</a>. He unsuccessfully stood at the <a href="2002_United_Kingdom_local_elections" title="2002 United Kingdom local elections">2002 local elections</a> for the <a href="Safe_seat" title="Safe seat">safe</a> Labour <a href="Wards_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Wards of the United Kingdom">ward</a> of Harrow Road (based around <a href="Harrow_Road" title="Harrow Road">the area of that name</a>) in the <a href="City_of_Westminster" title="City of Westminster">City of Westminster</a>.<a href="#cite_note-6">[4]</a>

He is regarded as a moderniser within the Conservative Party, contributing in both policy and image terms. He was a speechwriter for <a href="Michael_Howard" title="Michael Howard">Michael Howard</a>, the then <a href="Leader_of_the_Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)">Leader of the Conservative Party</a>, until December 2004, and editor of the Blue Books series which looked into new approaches to <a href="Conservative_Party_(UK)#Policies" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative policy</a> in areas such as health and transport.

Vaizey was one of <a href="Michael_Howard" title="Michael Howard">Michael Howard</a>'s inner circle of advisers and a member of a group of <a href="Young_Conservatives_(UK)" title="Young Conservatives (UK)">Young Conservatives</a> somewhat disparagingly referred to as the "<a href="Notting_Hill_Set" class="mw-redirect" title="Notting Hill Set">Notting Hill Set</a>" along with <a href="David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a>—elected party leader in December 2005—<a href="George_Osborne" title="George Osborne">George Osborne</a>, <a href="Michael_Gove" title="Michael Gove">Michael Gove</a>, <a href="Nicholas_Boles" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas Boles">Nicholas Boles</a> and <a href="Rachel_Whetstone" title="Rachel Whetstone">Rachel Whetstone</a>. Like Gove and Boles, he is a <a href="Fellow" title="Fellow">fellow</a> of the <a href="Henry_Jackson_Society" title="Henry Jackson Society">Henry Jackson Society</a>, and also a vice-chairman of <a href="List_of_organisations_associated_with_the_Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="List of organisations associated with the Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Friends of Poland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7">[5]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Member_of_Parliament">Member of Parliament</h3></div>

In 2002, Vaizey was selected by Wantage Conservative Association to be its candidate for the <a href="2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 general election</a> to succeed the sitting MP, <a href="Robert_Jackson_(Wantage_MP)" title="Robert Jackson (Wantage MP)">Robert Jackson</a>, who subsequently <a href="Crossed_the_floor" class="mw-redirect" title="Crossed the floor">crossed the floor</a> to Labour. Vaizey won a two-thirds majority in the final ballot of members and was elected as MP in that election, receiving 22,394 votes. His majority was 8,017 over the <a href="Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a>; this represented 43% of the voters and a 1.9% swing from the Liberal Democrats to the Conservatives.

When first elected to the House of Commons, Vaizey became a member of the Standing Committee on the Consumer Credit Bill. Before being appointed to the <a href="Opposition_frontbench" class="mw-redirect" title="Opposition frontbench">Opposition frontbench</a> he was a member of the Modernisation and Environmental Audit Select Committees and was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative's Globalisation and Global Poverty Policy Group.

In November 2006, Vaizey was appointed to the Conservative <a href="Official_Opposition_frontbench" title="Official Opposition frontbench">frontbench</a> as a Shadow Minister for Culture, overseeing Arts and Broadcasting policy.

In 2009, Ed Vaizey was reported to have claimed expenses for high-end furniture initially delivered to his London home, but intended for his constituency residence in Wantage. He later repaid the costs, acknowledging that some items were of higher quality than necessary, and stated he had not made similar claims before or since.<a href="#cite_note-Hope-8">[6]</a>

In the <a href="2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a> he received a vote of 29,284, which was 52% of the votes cast, winning an increased majority of 13,457. While the Conservative Party was in negotiations with the Lib Dems in the days after 6 May 2010, Vaizey was appearing regularly on television putting forward the Conservative viewpoint. In the <a href="2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015 general election</a> Vaizey increased his majority to 21,749. In the <a href="2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017 general election</a> Vaizey's majority was reduced but his share of the vote increased to 54.2%.

Vaizey was one of the <a href="2019_suspension_of_rebel_Conservative_MPs" title="2019 suspension of rebel Conservative MPs">group of 21 MPs</a> who had the <a href="Whip_(politics)" title="Whip (politics)">Conservative Whip</a> removed in September 2019, sitting as an <a href="Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">independent politician</a> until having the whip restored on 29 October 2019. On 6 November 2019 Vaizey announced his decision not to stand for re-election in the <a href="2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 general election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-9">[7]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ministerial_career">Ministerial career</h3></div>

In 2010, Vaizey was appointed as <a href="Minister_for_Culture%2C_Communications_and_Creative_Industries" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries">Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries</a> with responsibilities in the <a href="Department_for_Culture%2C_Media_and_Sport" title="Department for Culture, Media and Sport">Departments for Culture, Media and Sport</a> and <a href="Department_for_Business%2C_Innovation_and_Skills" title="Department for Business, Innovation and Skills">for Business, Innovation and Skills</a>.<a href="#cite_note-10">[8]</a> Vaizey was the longest serving Minister of Culture since the post was created in 1964, serving a total of 2,255 days, exceeding the total set by the first incumbent, <a href="Jennie_Lee%2C_Baroness_Lee_of_Asheridge" title="Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge">Jennie Lee</a>, by 186 days.<a href="#cite_note-11">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-Telegraphletter-12">[10]</a> In 2013 the professional association for librarians, <a href="Chartered_Institute_of_Library_and_Information_Professionals" title="Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals">CILIP</a>, passed a motion of no confidence in his tenure of the post at its AGM.<a href="#cite_note-13">[11]</a>

Upon leaving office, over 150 senior figures from the arts and creative industries wrote to the Daily Telegraph to express their thanks for his service as Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy.<a href="#cite_note-Telegraphletter-12">[10]</a> In 2011 he was mistakenly informed that he was to be Trade Minister, a post actually intended for <a href="Ed_Davey" title="Ed Davey">Ed Davey</a>.<a href="#cite_note-14">[12]</a>

Vaizey supported continued membership of the <a href="European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> in the <a href="2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" title="2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum">2016 referendum</a> and is supportive of the <a href="European_Atomic_Energy_Community" class="mw-redirect" title="European Atomic Energy Community">European Atomic Energy Community</a> (Euratom).<a href="#cite_note-15">[13]</a>

As a minister, Vaizey upheld the policy of free entry to the <a href="National_Museums_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="National Museums of the United Kingdom">UK's national museums</a>.<a href="#cite_note-16">[14]</a> Towards the end of his tenure, the Treasury introduced <a href="Tax_credit" title="Tax credit">tax credits</a> for theatre, orchestras and museums.<a href="#cite_note-17">[15]</a> Vaizey also secured £150 million in capital funding from the Treasury to help reform museum storage.<a href="#cite_note-18">[16]</a>

He oversaw the separation of English Heritage into two arms – a regulator, now known as <a href="Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, and a charity, <a href="English_Heritage" title="English Heritage">English Heritage</a>.<a href="#cite_note-19">[17]</a> Vaizey also held responsibility for the creative industries and ensured the continuance of the film tax credits, as well as the introduction of tax credits for video games, television and visual effects.<a href="#cite_note-20">[18]</a> As a result, the film industry became the second highest contributor to growth in the <a href="Service_sector" class="mw-redirect" title="Service sector">service sector</a> in 2017, growing by 72.4% since 2014, compared to European growth of 8.5%. During his tenure, the creative industries grew at three times the rate of the UK economy as a whole.<a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a> He was dismissed as a minister by <a href="Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a> on 14 July 2016, and returned to the backbenches.<a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a> He was appointed a member of the <a href="Her_Majesty's_Most_Honourable_Privy_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council">Privy Council</a> in July 2016.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peerage">Peerage</h3></div>

It was announced on 31 July 2020 that Vaizey was to be raised to the peerage in the <a href="2019_Dissolution_Honours" title="2019 Dissolution Honours">2019 Dissolution Honours</a>.<a href="#cite_note-23">[21]</a> He was created Baron Vaizey of Didcot, of Wantage in the County of Oxfordshire in the afternoon of 1 September.<a href="#cite_note-24">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-25">[23]</a>

As a peer, Vaizey proposed an amendment (and effective delay) to the 2024–25 <a href="Tobacco_and_Vapes_Bill" title="Tobacco and Vapes Bill">Tobacco and Vapes Bill</a> on 14 May 2025, following his visit to the Swiss research facility of leading heated tobacco company <a href="Philip_Morris_International" title="Philip Morris International">Philip Morris International</a>, which paid for Vaizey's flight and accommodation.<a href="#cite_note-cansa-26">[24]</a> He suggested that more research was needed into comparing the harm to human health from heated tobacco relative to the harm of smoking cigarettes. <a href="Martin_McKee" title="Martin McKee">Martin McKee</a>, professor of European public health at the <a href="London_School_of_Hygiene_%26_Tropical_Medicine" title="London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine">London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine</a>, suggested that a better comparison would be to compare its harm relative to not smoking at all.<a href="#cite_note-cansa-26">[24]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media_career">Media career</h2></div>

Vaizey has been a regular commentator for the Conservative Party in the broadcast and news media. He wrote regular comment pieces for <a href="The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a> between 1998 and 2005 and has contributed articles to <a href="The_Sunday_Times" title="The Sunday Times">The Sunday Times</a>, <a href="The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a> and The Daily Telegraph. He briefly wrote editorials for the <a href="Evening_Standard" title="Evening Standard">Evening Standard</a>. Vaizey is also a regular broadcaster, having appeared on <a href="Fi_Glover" title="Fi Glover">Fi Glover</a>'s and <a href="Edwina_Currie" title="Edwina Currie">Edwina Currie</a>'s shows on <a href="BBC_Radio_5_Live" title="BBC Radio 5 Live">BBC Radio 5 Live</a>, as a regular panelist on <a href="Channel_5_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel 5 (UK)">Channel 5</a>'s <a href="The_Wright_Stuff" title="The Wright Stuff">The Wright Stuff</a>, <a href="BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>'s <a href="Despatch_Box" title="Despatch Box">Despatch Box</a> and <a href="Westminster_Hour" class="mw-redirect" title="Westminster Hour">Westminster Hour</a>, and occasionally presented People and Politics on the <a href="BBC_World_Service" title="BBC World Service">BBC World Service</a>. Vaizey is a regular contributor on <a href="ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a>’s <a href="Good_Morning_Britain_(2014_TV_programme)" title="Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)">Good Morning Britain</a>, and since December 2022, Vaizey has been a regular presenter on <a href="Times_Radio" title="Times Radio">Times Radio</a>.

On 24 September 2010, Vaizey was named tenth in the 2010 Guardian Film Power 100 list.<a href="#cite_note-27">[25]</a> He played a <a href="Cameo_appearance" title="Cameo appearance">cameo</a> role as an <a href="Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a> MP in the 2012 film <a href="Tortoise_in_Love" title="Tortoise in Love">Tortoise in Love</a>.<a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_work">Other work</h2></div>

Subsequent to leaving office as <a href="Minister_for_Culture%2C_Communications_and_Creative_Industries" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries">Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries</a>, Vaizey became a trustee of the <a href="National_Youth_Theatre" title="National Youth Theatre">National Youth Theatre</a> and the international charity <a href="BritDoc" class="mw-redirect" title="BritDoc">BritDoc</a>, which supports long-form documentary making, both of which roles are unpaid.<a href="#cite_note-theyworkforyou-29">[27]</a> Vaizey is also a trustee of <a href="London_Music_Masters" class="mw-redirect" title="London Music Masters">London Music Masters</a>, a charity which provides children from disadvantaged backgrounds access to a high quality music education.<a href="#cite_note-30">[28]</a>

He was appointed the unpaid chairman of Creative Fuse NE, a programme overseen by five universities in North East England to look at the importance of fusing creativity and technology.<a href="#cite_note-theyworkforyou-29">[27]</a>

Vaizey took a role with <a href="LionTree_Advisors" class="mw-redirect" title="LionTree Advisors">LionTree Advisors</a> who paid a salary of £50,000 for one day's work per week. The <a href="Advisory_Committee_on_Business_Appointments" title="Advisory Committee on Business Appointments">Advisory Committee on Business Appointments</a> approved his application to work for the investment bank, which specialises in media and technology mergers and acquisitions, despite Vaizey's having met the firm on "official business" three times in his final months as minister.<a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a>

He is a past president of the Old Pauline Club, the alumni association of <a href="St_Paul's_School%2C_London" title="St Paul's School, London">St Paul's School</a> which he attended as a pupil.<a href="#cite_note-32">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[31]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div>

Vaizey married Alexandra Mary-Jane Holland on the 17 September 2005 in the <a href="House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">chapel of the House of Commons</a>.<a href="#cite_note-34">[32]</a> <a href="Michael_Gove" title="Michael Gove">Michael Gove</a> was his <a href="Groomsman" title="Groomsman">best man</a>. The couple have two children.<a href="#cite_note-35">[33]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2></div>

<ul><li>A Blue Tomorrow – New Visions for Modern Conservatives (2001) (ed. with Michael Gove and Nicholas Boles). <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">

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</style><a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>1-84275-027-5</bdi></li>

<li>Blue Book on Health: Conservative Visions for Health Policy (2002) <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>1-84275-043-7</bdi></li>

<li>Blue Book on Transport: Conservative Visions for Transport Policy (ed with Michael McManus) (2002) <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>1-84275-044-5</bdi></li>

<li>Blue Book on Education (ed with Michael McManus) (2003)</li></ul>

<caption class="nowrap">Coat of arms of Ed Vaizey

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<dd>Arms of Edward's father, <a href="Baron_Vaizey" class="mw-redirect" title="Baron Vaizey">The Lord Vaizey</a></dd>

<dt>Crest</dt>

<dd>Between two martlets respectant Sable a cubit arm in armour the hand gauntleted and holding a sprig of oak leaves Proper.</dd>

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<dd>Azure on a cross engrailed between four cross crosslets erased Argent a Catherine wheel of the field.</dd>

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<dd>On either side a harlequin vested paly Argent and Azure cap and shoes Or supporting with the exterior hand a staff Proper.</dd>

<dt>Motto</dt>

<dd>Evasi<a href="#cite_note-36">[34]</a></dd></dl>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vaizey.com/">Official website</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Vaizey_Ed.aspx">Profile</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130103043333/http://www.conservatives.com/People/Members_of_Parliament/Vaizey_Ed.aspx">Archived</a> 3 January 2013 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> at the Conservative Party</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070101205134/http://www.oxfordshireconservatives.com/wcca/">Wantage and Didcot Conservatives</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/edward-vaizey/1580">Profile</a> at <a href="Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?memberId=1580">Contributions in Parliament</a> at <a href="Hansard" title="Hansard">Hansard</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Ed_Vaizey">Voting record</a> at <a href="Public_Whip" title="Public Whip">Public Whip</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/ed_vaizey">Record in Parliament</a> at <a href="TheyWorkForYou" title="TheyWorkForYou">TheyWorkForYou</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/07/27/exclusive-interview-ed-vaizey-uk-shadow-minister-for-the-arts/">Video game industry interview with Ed Vaizey</a>, Bruceongames, 27 July 2009</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110904101205/http://www.artforums.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8648">Art interview with Ed Vaizey</a>, Artforums.co.uk, 15 December 2009</li></ul>

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