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Dame Cheryl Gillan, Welsh Secretary under David Cameron and staunch opponent of HS2 – obituary She campaigned to protect the Chilterns against HS2 and housing development and in 2019 announced Boris Johnson s Tory leadership victory 5 April 2021 • 4:16pm Cheryl Gillan with her dog Tizzy after he was voted Westminster Dog of the Year in 1996 Credit: Brian Smith Dame Cheryl Gillan, who has died aged 68, was a combative Conservative MP who was Welsh Secretary in David Cameron’s Coalition, but made a greater impact campaigning against the HS2 high-speed railway being driven through her Chesham & Amersham constituency. She was a forceful personality in the Commons, seen by some as overbearing and often rebuked by the Chair for raising bogus points of order. She was also the first woman to turn out for the Lords & Commons cricket team, having been a useful all-rounder at Cheltenham Ladies’ College.

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