Jo Churchill
Jo Churchill | |
|---|---|
 Churchill in 2020 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care | |
| Assumed office 26 July 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
| Preceded by | Seema Kennedy |
| Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds | |
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |
| Preceded by | David Ruffley |
| Majority | 24,988 (40.4%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 March 1964 |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Website | Official website |
Johanna Peta Churchill[1] (born 18 March 1964)[2] is a British Conservative Party politician who currently serves as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health. She was elected the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury St. Edmunds in 2015.
Early life
Johanna Churchill was born on 18 March 1964. She was educated at Dame Alice Harpur School.[3]
Career
Churchill was the finance director of a scaffolding company and served on Lincolnshire County Council.[4]
Churchill is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, which encompasses Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, having first taken her seat at the 2015 general election.[5] She has previously sat on the Women and Equalities Committee and the Environmental Audit Select Committee.[6]
Churchill was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.[7] She has since stated that the EU referendum result must be respected and therefore supported Theresa May in triggering Article 50 (the formal process of leaving the EU).
She entered government when she was made an assistant government whip during the reshuffle on 9 January 2018, having previously served as PPS to Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for the Department of Health.[8]
In July 2019, Churchill was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care at the Department for Health and Social Care.
References
- ^ "No. 61230". The London Gazette. 18 May 2015. p. 9125.
- ^ "Jo Churchill MP". myparliament.info. MyParliament. Archived from the original on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ^ ‘CHURCHILL, Johanna Peta’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016
- ^ "Director selected as Tory candidate for Bury St Edmunds". BBC News. 4 November 2014. Archived from the original on 18 May 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ^ "Bury St Edmunds". BBC News. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ^ "Environmental Audit Committee". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ^ Goodenough, Tom (16 February 2016). "Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence?". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ correspondent, Peter Walker Political (9 January 2018). "Theresa May's junior ministerial reshuffle: who's in and who's out". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
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- Living people
- Members of Lincolnshire County Council
- People educated at Dame Alice Harpur School
- UK MPs 2015–2017
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- 21st-century British women politicians
- Parliamentary Private Secretaries to the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
- Parliamentary Private Secretary to Department of Health and Social Care