Aidan Burley

In 2014 Burley along with six other Conservative Party MPs voted against the Equal Pay (Transparency) Bill which would require all companies with more than 250 employees to declare the gap in pay between the average male and average female salaries.

Burley announced on 5 February 2014 that he would not contest the 2015 general election.

During the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, taking place in London, Burley denounced the content of the ceremony on the microblog Twitter as "...leftie multicultural crap. Bring back Red Arrows, Shakespeare and the Stones". He went on to suggest that it was "the most leftie opening ceremony I have ever seen – more than Beijing, the capital of a Communist state".

Burley was a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee from 2010 to 2011. Between 12 January 2011 and 17 December 2011 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Secretary of State for Transport, first Philip Hammond and later Justine Greening. He is a supporter of the Free Enterprise Group.

On 11 December 2011 it was reported by The Mail on Sunday that he had attended a stag party at the French ski resort of Val Thorens which involved Nazi uniforms and salutes and a toast "to Tom for organising the stag do, and if we're perfectly honest, to the ideology and thought process of the Third Reich". Burley subsequently released a statement through the Conservative Campaign Headquarters, saying: "There was clearly inappropriate behaviour by some of the other guests and I deeply regret that this happened. I am extremely sorry for any offence that will undoubtedly have been caused." On 17 December 2011 the Prime Minister, David Cameron, sacked Burley from his role as PPS after new claims emerged linking him directly to "the offensive and foolish behaviour". On 22 December, French prosecuting authorities announced they had started a preliminary inquiry into the event. The groom was prosecuted for wearing Nazi uniform and his French lawyer said it was "deeply unfair" that Burley who had organised the uniforms had not also been prosecuted.

Burley was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Cannock Chase in the 2010 general election with a majority of 3,195.

The Cannock Chase Constituency Association has received £28,927 since 2010. Burley has received corporate donations from Japan Tobacco International, JCB Research, and the Conservative Friends of Israel. Burley received £3,600 in remunerations from Clever Together LLP for work he did for them in 2012.

During this period he also worked for Philip Hammond and Nick Herbert when they were shadow ministers, and was elected a Conservative councillor in 2006 for the Fulham Broadway ward of Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council.

He was educated at West House School, Birmingham, King Edward's School, Birmingham, standing as a Conservative in 1997 in the school's mock election.

Aidan Burley (born 22 January 1979) is a British politician. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Cannock Chase, elected in 2010 on a large vote swing away from the Labour Party candidate. Burley stepped down in 2015.