Charles Wardle

Charles Wardle
Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle
In office 9 June 1983 – 14 May 2001
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Gregory Barker
Personal details
Born	(1939-08-23) 23 August 1939 (age 85) United Kingdom
Other political affiliations	Conservative Party (until 2001)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary Home Office In office April 1992 – May 1993 Prime Minister John Major Minister Kenneth Clarke Home Office In office May 1993 – July 1994 Prime Minister John Major Minister Michael Howard Department of Trade and Industry In office July 1994 – February 1995 Prime Minister John Major Minister Michael Heseltine
Select Committees Trade & Industry In office 1983–1984 Treasury & Civil Service In office 1990–1991 Public Accounts Committee In office 1996–2000

Charles Frederick Wardle (born 23 August 1939) is a retired British businessman and politician who was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle from 1983 until 2001. In April 2001 for the last four weeks of his parliamentary career he sat without the Conservative whip because he and a group of his Conservative constituency workers would not endorse his successor, Greg Barker, until questions were answered about Barker's activities in Russia and about money he had obtained offshore. Later the Russian oligarch, whose company employed Barker, was sanctioned^[1] in the United States of America and in the United Kingdom.