Mark Gino Francois is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rayleigh and Wickford,since the 2001 general election.
Gregory William Hands is a British politician serving as Minister for London and Minister of State for Trade Policy since November 2023. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelsea and Fulham,previously Hammersmith and Fulham,since 2005. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as its Chairman from February to November 2023. Hands has served as Minister of State for Trade Policy under four prime ministers,holding the office on four occasions,and also served as Minister of State for Business,Energy and Clean Growth from 2021 to 2022.
Stephen William Hammond is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wimbledon since 2005. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
Damian Patrick George Hinds is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Schools since November 2023. He previously served as Secretary of State for Education under Theresa May from 2018 to 2019 and has held junior ministerial positions under four Prime Ministers. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for East Hampshire since 2010.
Chloe Rebecca Smith is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich North since 2009. She previously served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from September to October 2022 and Secretary of State for Science,Innovation and Technology from April to July 2023.
Henry Byron Davies,Baron Davies of Gower is a Welsh Conservative politician,life peer and former police officer. He was a Member of the Welsh Assembly from 2011 to 2015,a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2017,and has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2019. He served as a Lord in Waiting between September 2022 and November 2023. He was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport on 14 November 2023.
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Social Care since October 2022,and previously from 2020 to 2021. She also served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Faversham and Mid Kent since 2015.
Wendy Morton is a British politician who served as Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from September to October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aldridge-Brownhills in the West Midlands since 2015.
Nusrat Munir Ul-Ghani is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Wealden in East Sussex since 2015. She currently serves as Minister of State for Industry and Economic Security and Minister of State for the Investment Security Unit. In January 2018,she became the first female Muslim minister to speak from the House of Commons despatch box.
William James Quince is a British politician and former lawyer who served as Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care from September 2022 to November 2023. A member of the Conservative Party,he was first elected at the 2015 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester,defeating the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Sir Bob Russell. From 2011 to 2016,Quince was a borough councillor in Colchester. On 9 June 2023,Quince announced he would not run as an MP at the next general election.
Maria Colette Caulfield is a British politician and nurse serving as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health and Women's Health Strategy and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Women since October 2022.
Dame Andrea Marie Jenkyns is a British politician serving as Deputy Chairwoman of the European Research Group (ERG) since 2019.
Kelly Jane Tolhurst is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester and Strood since 2015. A member of the Conservative Party,she served as Minister of State for Schools and Childhood from September to October 2022.
Dame Amanda Anne Milling is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cannock Chase since the 2015 general election. She served as Minister without Portfolio in the UK cabinet and,alongside Ben Elliot,as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party from February 2020 to September 2021. She also served as Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East from September 2021 to September 2022. She previously worked in market research.
Margaret Ann Throup is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Erewash in Derbyshire since the 2015 general election. Prior to entering politics,Throup worked as a biomedical scientist and business consultant.
Oliver James Dowden is a British politician and the current Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A member of the Conservative Party,he is also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Secretary of State in the Cabinet Office and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hertsmere since 2015.
Sir Jeremy Mark Quin is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Horsham since the 2015 general election. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as Minister of State for Crime,Policing and Fire under Prime Minister Liz Truss from September to October 2022. After Truss resigned and Rishi Sunak succeeded her,Quin was appointed to be Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office. Quin resigned from Sunak's government in the November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle and became Chair of the Defence Select Committee in January 2024.
Julia Louise Lopez is a British Conservative Party politician who has been both Minister of State for Data and Digital Infrastructure and Minister of State for Media,Tourism and Creative Industries since 2023. She has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornchurch and Upminster in Greater London since the 2017 general election.
The second May ministry was formed on 11 June 2017 after Theresa May returned to office following the June 2017 snap general election. The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Conservative Party losing its governing majority in the House of Commons. On 9 June 2017,May announced her intention to form a Conservative minority government,reliant on the confidence and supply of the Democratic Unionist Party;a finalised agreement between the two parties was signed and published on 26 June 2017.
The second Johnson ministry began on 16 December 2019,three days after Boris Johnson's audience with Queen Elizabeth II where she invited him to form a new administration following the 2019 general election. The Conservative Party was returned to power with a majority of 80 seats in the House of Commons. Initially the ministers were largely identical to those at the end of the first Johnson ministry,but changed significantly in cabinet reshuffles in February 2020 and September 2021.
