Jo Churchill
Jo Churchill | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2020 | |
Minister of State for Employment | |
In office 13 November 2023 – 5 July 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Guy Opperman |
Succeeded by | Alison McGovern |
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household | |
In office 8 September 2022 – 13 November 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Liz Truss Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Michael Tomlinson |
Succeeded by | Stuart Anderson |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Agri-Innovation and Climate Adaptation | |
In office 16 September 2021 –6 July 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Victoria Prentis |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care | |
In office 26 July 2019 – 16 September 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Seema Kennedy |
Succeeded by | Maria Caulfield |
Member of Parliament forBury St Edmunds | |
In office 7 May 2015 – 30 May 2024 | |
Preceded by | David Ruffley |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | 18 March 1964 |
Political party | Conservative |
Website | Official website |
Johanna Peta Churchill[1](born 18 March 1964) is a British politician who served as theMember of Parliament(MP) forBury St Edmundsfrom2015to2024.A member of theConservative Party,she served as Minister of State in the Department for Work and Pensions from November 2023 until July 2024.[2]She previously served asVice-Chamberlain of the Householdfrom 2022 to 2023.[3]In that role, she took part in the2023 Coronation[4]and the2023 State Opening of Parliament.[5]
Early life
[edit]Johanna Churchill was privately educated atDame Alice Harpur School.[6]
Career
[edit]Churchill was the finance director of a scaffolding company and served onLincolnshire County Council.[7]
Churchill was themember of parliament(MP) for the constituency ofBury St EdmundsinSuffolk,which encompassesBury St EdmundsandStowmarket,having first taken her seat at the2015 general election.[8]She has sat on theWomen and Equalities Committeeand theEnvironmental Audit Select Committee.[9]
Churchill was opposed to Brexit prior to the2016 referendum.[10]She has since stated that the EU referendum result must be respected and therefore supportedTheresa Mayin triggeringArticle 50(the formal process of leaving the EU).
She entered government when she was made an assistant government whip during thereshuffle on 9 January 2018,having previously served as PPS toJeremy Hunt,Secretary of State for the Department of Health.[11]
In July 2019, Churchill was appointedParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Careat theDepartment for Health and Social Carein thefirst Johnson ministry.
In September 2021, Churchill was appointedParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Agri-Innovation and Climate Adaptationat theDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairsduring the secondcabinet reshuffleof thesecond Johnson ministry.[12]She resigned from this position in 2022 in protest atBoris Johnson'sconduct in theChris Pincher scandal.[13]
In 2023, Churchill asVice-Chamberlain of the Household,was "taken hostage"atBuckingham Palaceto ensure the King's safe return after the2023 State Opening of Parliament.[14][15]
She announced that she would not stand for re-election at the2024 United Kingdom general election.[16]She was replaced as the Conservative candidate for the new constituency ofBury St Edmunds and Stowmarketby special adviserWill Tanner.[17]
References
[edit]- ^"No. 61230".The London Gazette.18 May 2015. p. 9125.
- ^"Ministerial appointments: November 2023".GOV.UK.Retrieved13 November2023.
- ^"Ministerial Appointments: September 2022".GOV.UK.Retrieved9 September2022.
- ^"Coronation order of service in full".BBC News.5 May 2023.Retrieved6 May2023.
- ^Edgington, Tom; Clarke, Jennifer (7 November 2023)."King's Speech: What is it and why is it important?".BBC News.BBC.Retrieved7 November2023.
- ^"Churchill, Johanna Peta".Who's Who.A & C Black.doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U283969.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^"Director selected as Tory candidate for Bury St Edmunds".BBC News.4 November 2014.Archivedfrom the original on 18 May 2019.Retrieved10 January2020.
- ^"Bury St Edmunds".BBC News.8 May 2015.Archivedfrom the original on 8 May 2015.Retrieved8 May2015.
- ^"Environmental Audit Committee".UK Parliament.Archivedfrom the original on 16 October 2015.Retrieved10 October2015.
- ^Goodenough, Tom (16 February 2016)."Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence?".The Spectator.Archivedfrom the original on 2 May 2019.Retrieved11 October2016.
- ^Walker, Peter (9 January 2018)."Theresa May's junior ministerial reshuffle: who's in and who's out".The Guardian.ISSN0261-3077.Archivedfrom the original on 16 January 2018.Retrieved9 January2018.
- ^"Ministerial appointments: September 2021".16 September 2021.
- ^Geater, Paul (6 July 2022)."Jo Churchill quits as minister over Boris Johnson's leadership".East Anglian Daily Times.Retrieved6 July2022.
- ^Morton, Becky (7 November 2023)."Focus on crime as Rishi Sunak sets out priorities in King's Speech".BBC News.BBC.Retrieved7 November2023.
- ^Edgington, Tom; Clarke, Jennifer (7 November 2023)."King's Speech: What is it and why is it important?".BBC News.BBC.Retrieved7 November2023.
- ^"Second minister of day announces exit from Parliament adding to Tory headache to fill '150 empty candidate spots'".LBC.Retrieved23 May2024.
- ^Geater, Paul (5 June 2024)."Downing Street official hopes to become Suffolk MP after General Election".East Anglian Daily Times.Retrieved6 June2024.
External links
[edit]- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- Living people
- Members of Lincolnshire County Council
- People educated at Dame Alice Harpur School
- UK MPs 2015–2017
- UK MPs 2017–2019
- UK MPs 2019–2024
- 21st-century British women politicians
- 21st-century English women
- 21st-century English politicians
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