Caroline Elizabeth Johnson is a British Conservative Party politician and consultant paediatrician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sleaford and North Hykeham since 2016. She served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health and Public Health from September to October 2022. She has been Shadow Minister for Health and Social Care since July 2024.
Chloe Rebecca Smith is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich North from 2009 to 2024. 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.
Anne Marie Morris is a former British Conservative politician and lawyer,who represented Newton Abbot as a Member of Parliament (MP) between May 2010 and May 2024. During her 14 year term in office,she twice lost the party whip for a period of nine months between July and December 2017,and then again between January and May 2022.
Angela Rayner is a British politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Secretary of State for Housing,Communities and Local Government since July 2024. She has been Deputy Leader of the Labour Party since 2020 and Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. Ideologically she identifies as a socialist and as being part of Labour's soft left.
Wendy Morton is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aldridge-Brownhills since 2015. She served as Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from September to October 2022.
Anne-Marie Belinda Trevelyan is a British politician who served as Minister of State for Indo-Pacific under Rishi Sunak between October 2022 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,she was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 2015 until 2024,when she lost her seat in the 2024 General Election by Labour's David Smith. She previously served in the Cabinets of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
William Peter Wragg,is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hazel Grove in Greater Manchester from 2015 to 2024. As a member of the Conservative Party,he previously served as a vice-chairman of its 1922 Committee. From April 2024 until parliament was dissolved in May 2024,he sat as an independent.
Melanie Onn is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes since 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she previously served as MP for Great Grimsby from 2015 to 2019.
A by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Sleaford and North Hykeham in Lincolnshire,England,was held on 8 December 2016. It was triggered by the resignation of the Conservative member of parliament (MP) Stephen Phillips,who left Parliament on 4 November 2016 due to policy differences with the Conservative government led by the prime minister,Theresa May,over Brexit –the British withdrawal from the European Union (EU). The Conservatives nominated Caroline Johnson,a paediatrician,to replace Phillips;she won the by-election with more than 50 per cent of the vote,a sizable majority. The Conservatives' vote share fell slightly compared to the result at the previous general election in 2015.
Trudy Lynne Harrison is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Copeland from the February 2017 by-election to the 2024 general election. Her election marked the first time Copeland had elected a Conservative MP since 1931,and the first time the constituency had elected a female MP. Three months after her by-election victory,Harrison was re-elected in the 2017 general election and held her seat in 2019.
Sir Simon Richard Clarke is a British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland from 2017 to 2024. He briefly served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities from September to October 2022 and Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2021 to 2022.
Joyce Rebekah "Joy" Morrissey is an American-born British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield since 2019. She was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from November 2023 until July 2024. She has been Shadow Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero and an Opposition whip since July 2024.
Paul Bristow is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Peterborough from 2019 until 2024,when he was defeated by the Labour candidate Andrew Pakes. A member of the Conservative Party,he worked as a public relations consultant and was the chairman of the lobbying trade body,the Association of Professional Political Consultants,prior to his parliamentary career. Bristow was also a councillor on Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council between 2006 and 2010.
Dehenna Sheridan Davison is a former British Conservative Party politician and broadcaster. She served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bishop Auckland from 2019 to 2024. She served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Levelling Up between September 2022 and September 2023.
Sara Alice Britcliffe is a British Conservative Party politician,who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hyndburn from 2019 to 2024. At the age of 24,she was the youngest Conservative MP elected in the election,and the first to represent the constituency since 1992.
Gary William Sambrook is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield from 2019 until 2024. He has served as the Joint Executive Secretary of the backbench 1922 Committee from 2021 until he left parliament.
Jane Marion Hunt is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough in Leicestershire between 2019 and 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,she briefly served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business,Consumers and Labour Markets from July to September 2022 under Prime Minister Boris Johnson following the July 2022 government crisis. She lost her seat to Labour's Jeevun Sandher in the 2024 election.
The July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election was triggered by Boris Johnson's announcement on 7 July 2022 that he would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,following a series of political controversies.
In early July 2022,62 of the United Kingdom's 179 government ministers,parliamentary private secretaries,trade envoys,and party vice-chairmen resigned from their positions in the second administration formed by Boris Johnson as Prime Minister,culminating in Johnson's resignation on 7 July. Johnson's premiership had been considered in danger for months after several scandals,but it was the Chris Pincher scandal that was identified to have spurred on the resignations. Considered the "last straw" for the Prime Minister,the scandal arose after it was revealed that Johnson had promoted his Deputy Chief Government Whip Chris Pincher,who was publicly facing multiple allegations of sexual assault,to the position despite knowing of the allegations beforehand.
The October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election was triggered by Liz Truss's announcement that she would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,amid an economic and political crisis.
