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Michael Thrasher
Michael Thrasher is a British academic, Professor of Politics in the School of Sociology, Politics & Law at the University of Plymouth. He is also Sky News' election analyst. 
Thrasher was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1953. he received his BA in politics from the University of Liverpool in 1974. He remained in Liverpool to study for his doctoral thesis, "The political theory of English local government, 1834-1972". He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1981. He began lecturing
Early life and career.
Mitchell was born at Hampstead in north London, the son of Sir David Bower Mitchell, a former Conservative MP and Government Minister. He was educated at Rugby School, where the self-confessed "stern disciplinarian" earned the nickname "Thrasher".
In February 1975, he joined the Royal Tank Regiment as a second lieutenant on a Short Service Limited Commission (a commission designed for teenagers applying to Oxford or Cambridge University after leaving the sixth form), spending time in Cyprus where