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Justine Greening
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Ohio
Discography
- Greening2025
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,976x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,648x
- Living Free-Radical Polymerization by Reversible Addition−Fragmentation Chain Transfer: The RAFT Process
· 1998 · cited 4,818x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
- LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
· 2019 · cited 3,492x
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Quotes
- “Make no mistake - a third, short runway will not be a long-term solution to our country's hub capacity question that we currently face.Britain ... deserves a much longer-term aviation plan than it has had in the past.”
- “Women and children are vulnerable to brutal violence and some have lost everything... We cannot ignore what is happening to the Syrian people”
- “Free movement of labour was never meant to be an unqualified principle, irrespective of how it might have worked on the ground. We do need to see action taken in relation to negotiation with the EU. [The government is] taking a fundamental look at some of the rules that allow unrestricted immigration.”
- “I want us to stay in the EU so that future generations can continue to benefit from the influence and prosperity that comes from our membership of the single market. The alternative, Brexit, would see our young people's prospects knocked sideways by an economic shock and years of uncertainty.”
- “Today's a good day to say I'm in a happy same sex relationship, I campaigned for Stronger In but sometimes you're better off out!”
- “Local areas who want more grammar places should be able to have them and similarly, local areas who want to stick with the existing schools that they're happy with will be able to do that too.”
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Key facts
- Prime minister
- Theresa May
- Preceded by
- Nicky Morgan
- Succeeded by
- Damian Hinds
- Leader
- David Cameron
- Born
- ( 1969-04-30 ) 30 April 1969 (age 57) , Rotherham , West Riding of Yorkshire , England
- Party
- Conservative
- Education
- Oakwood Comprehensive School
- Alma mater
- University of Southampton ( BSc ), London Business School ( MBA )
- Website
- Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Justine Greening (born 30 April 1969) is an English former politician who was the Secretary of State for Education from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, she was Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 2010 to 2011, Secretary of State for Transport from 2011 to 2012 and Secretary of State for International Development from 2012 to 2016. A member of the Conservative Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney from 2005 to 2019.
Greening resigned as Education Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities in the January 2018 Cabinet reshuffle. On 3 September 2019, she announced she would not be standing as an MP at the next general election. Later the same day, she was one of 21 Conservative MPs who had the whip withdrawn after voting against Boris Johnson's government over Brexit. She sat as an independent MP until Parliament was dissolved for the December 2019 general election.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Justine Greening” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.