Gary Christopher Ridley (b. 26 July 1980) is the current Conservative PPC for Coventry North West and Cabinet Member for Housing and Climate Change on Coventry City Council. Events 657 - Battle of Siffin. 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Prospective parliamentary candidate ( PPC) is a term used in British politics to refer to candidates selected by political parties to fight individual Coventry North West is a Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Coventry ( is a city and Metropolitan borough in the County of West Midlands in England.
Educated at Coventry University, he was elected to Coventry City Council in 2002 for the Sherbourne ward at the age of 21, and was made a Cabinet member in 2004. Coventry University is a post-1992 University in Coventry, West Midlands, England. At 23 he was the youngest Cabinet member in the thirty-year history of Metropolitan boroughs. A metropolitan borough is a type of local government district in England covering urban areas within metropolitan counties. He is also a director of both the Coventry Sports Trust and the Coventry Transport Museum and is a school governor at Sherbourne Fields Special School. The Coventry Transport Museum (formerly known as the Museum of British Road Transport) is a major motor Museum, located in Coventry, England
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