Charlie Maynard | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2024 | |
Member of Parliament for Witney | |
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Robert Courts |
Majority | 4,339 (8.6%) |
Member of West Oxfordshire District Council for Standlake,Aston and Stanton Harcourt | |
Assumed office 9 May 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Charles Adrian MacFie Maynard |
Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Alma mater | Christ Church,Oxford |
Website | www |
Charles Adrian MacFie Maynard [1] (born February 1971) is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney since 2024. A member of the Liberal Democrats,he gained the seat from Robert Courts,a member of the Conservative Party. Maynard has been a member of West Oxfordshire District Council since 2022.
Maynard studied geography at Christ Church,Oxford,from 1990 to 1993. [2]
Maynard co-founded BDA Partners,an international investment advice company,in 1996. [3] He chaired the Witney Oxford Transport Group,which advocates for a railway linking Carterton,Witney,Eynsham and Oxford,from October 2020 to November 2023. [2]
In the 2022 council election,Maynard was elected as a member of West Oxfordshire District Council for the ward of Standlake,Aston and Stanton Harcourt. [4] He served as the District Council's Executive Member for Planning and Sustainable Development from November 2023 until standing down in May 2024 to become a Parliamentary candidate for Witney.
Maynard was elected as Member of Parliament for Witney in the 2024 general election. He received 41.2 per cent of the vote and a majority of 4,339 over the incumbent Conservative MP Robert Courts,then Solicitor General for England and Wales,who had represented the seat since 2016. [5] [6] Maynard became the first non-Conservative MP for Witney since 1922. [7]
Maynard and his wife Sophie have hosted refugees from Ukraine and Syria at their home near Witney. [8]