Gerry Malone

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Peter Gerald Malone MA, LLB, known as Gerry Malone, (born Glasgow, 21 July 1950) is a British Conservative politician who was an MP from 1983-87 and 1992-97.

Malone was educated at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, and the University of Glasgow.

He was an unsuccessful Conservative candidate in the February 1974 general election in the Glasgow Provan constituency, where he defeated by Hugh Brown (Labour). He made other unsuccesful attempts to be elected to parliament at Glasgow Pollok in 1979, and in the Glasgow Hillhead by-electionin 1982 where he lost the traditionally Conservative seat to Roy Jenkins of the SDP.

He was then elected as MP for Aberdeen South in 1983 as a member of the Thatcher government, but lost the seat to Frank Doran of Labour at the 1987 general election.

He re-entered parliament in 1992, representing the "safe" Conservative seat of Winchester. He was appointed a Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1994, when Virginia Bottomley was the Secretary of State.

Malone unexpectedly lost his Winchester seat at the 1997 general election by two votes, to the Liberal Democrat candidate Mark Oaten. Malone challenged the result in the high court, which was declared void, causing a by-election. However Malone was punished by the electorate for forcing what many^[who?] saw as an unnecessary contest, trailing 21,566 votes behind Oaten in the resulting by-election.

Malone was chairman of Regent-GM, one of Britain's biggest suppliers of generic drugs to the National Health Service (NHS) and a subsidiary of Nadhmi Auchi's General Mediterranean Holding.

Currently he is a Non Executive Chairman of Ultrasis, who specialise in computerised cognitive behavioural therapy software.