    alistair james hendrie burt (born 25 may 1955) is a british conservative party politician. he is the member of parliament (mp) for north east bedfordshire. burt was parliamentary under secretary of state then minister of state at the department of social security from 1992 to 1997, and parliamentary under secretary of state at the foreign and commonwealth office from 2010 to 2013. ==early life== alistair burt was born in bury, lancashire, and was educated at the bury grammar school, where he was appointed head boy in 1973, and st john's college, oxford where he was elected president of the oxford law society in 1976 and graduated with a degree in jurisprudence law in 1977. he became an articled clerk with slater heelis & co. of [
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