Rochester and Strood is a constituency in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Kelly Tolhurst,a Conservative. Since 2022,she has served as Government Deputy Chief Whip and Treasurer of the Household.
Medway Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of Medway in Kent,England. It was created on 1 April 1998 replacing Gillingham and Rochester-upon-Medway.
Stuart James Andrew is a British Conservative politician,serving as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport,Tourism,Heritage and Civil Society since September 2022 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities since October 2022. Andrew previously served as Government Deputy Chief Whip from 2020 to 2022,Minister of State for Housing from February to July 2022,and Minister of State for Prisons and Probation from July to September 2022.He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Pudsey since 2010.
Mark John Reckless is a British lawyer and former politician who served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) for South Wales East from 2016 until 2021,having previously served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester and Strood from 2010 to 2015. Initially a member of the Conservative Party,he crossed the floor to join the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in September 2014. He has since changed parties a further three times.
Sir Mark Steven Spencer is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Food,Farming and Fisheries since 2022. He previously served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from February to September 2022 and as Chief Whip from 2019 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Sherwood since 2010.
Since 2009,the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom has experimented with the use of open primaries to select some parliamentary candidates.
A by-election was held on 20 November 2014 for the UK parliamentary constituency of Rochester and Strood in Kent,England. The sitting Member of Parliament (MP) Mark Reckless called it on joining the UK Independence Party (UKIP),from the Conservatives. He resigned his seat.
Scott Leslie Mann is a British Conservative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Cornwall since 2015. He currently serves as a Government Whip. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Growth and Rural Affairs from September to October 2022. Between 2009 and 2016 he represented the Wadebridge West ward on Cornwall Council.
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 Europe since 26 March 2024. She has previously served 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.
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.
Amanda Jane Solloway is a British politician serving as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury since September 2022 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Affordability and Skills since February 2023. A member of the Conservative Party,she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby North since 2019,having previously served from 2015 to 2017.
Anne-Marie Belinda Trevelyan is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Indo-Pacific under Rishi Sunak since October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed since 2015. She previously served in the Cabinets of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
Miriam Jane Alice Davies,known as Mims Davies,is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Sussex since 2019. She has served as Minister of State for Disabled People,Health and Work since December 2023. She previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Mobility,Youth and Progression from October 2022 to December 2023 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding from September to October 2022.
Rebecca Faye Clark,better known by her maiden name as Rebecca Pow,is a British politician who serves as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature since November 2023. also having previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs from 2019 to 2022.
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove is a British Conservative Party politician serving as Minister of State for Legal Migration and the Border since December 2023. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Corby since May 2015.
Paul Stuart Scully is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton and Cheam since 2015. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as Minister for London from February 2020 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy from October 2022. He was sacked from both roles in November 2023.
Trudy Lynne Harrison is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Copeland since the February 2017 by-election. It was 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.
Edmund Francis Hughes is a British Conservative Party politician who served in the Second Johnson ministry as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Rough Sleeping from 2021 to 2022. He has also been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall North since 2017.
Joyce Rebekah "Joy" Morrissey is an American-born British politician who has served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire since 2019. Morrissey has been a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury since November 2023.
