Liberal Democrats MP for Tewkesbury from to (left the party). An MP continuously since .
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198
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5
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Declared while sitting for Lib Dem
£6,730
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| Party | Office | Area | Period | Began | Ended | Source |
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| Lib Dem | MP | Tewkesbury | – | elected | left the party | Party history |
Parliament's party history for this member: Independent ( – present); Liberal Democrat ( – ).
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Totals add only the entries that declare an amount received: payments for work, donations, gifts, and funded visits (register categories 1.1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Ongoing employment is listed but not added, because its figure is a rate rather than a sum received. Each entry is dated by when the benefit happened, not when it was registered, and placed under the party the member sat for on that date. A member who changed party therefore has a separate total for each.
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| 3. Gifts, UK sources | Jockey Club Racecourses Ltd - £560.00 | £560 | Lib Dem | Register record | |
| 3. Gifts, UK sources | The Premier League - £450.00 | £450 | Lib Dem | Register record | |
| 3. Gifts, UK sources | Knights Tailoring Ltd - £624.00 | £624 | Lib Dem | Register record | |
| 4. Visits outside the UK | International visit to Ukraine between 05 October 2025 and 11 October 2025Safelane Global (via Animar Travel Network); Guartel Technologies (via Animar Travel Network); Alford Technology (via Animar Travel Network); NIC Instruments (via Animar Travel Network); RSK Group (via Animar Travel Network) | £3,816 | Lib Dem | Register record | |
| 3. Gifts, UK sources | National Liberal Club - £1,280.00 | £1,280 | Lib Dem | Register record |
Zoe Wilson was a well-loved English teacher, a dedicated mother to her two boys, John and Mark, and wife to Matthew. She was the kind of neighbour who delivered fresh baked goods to your doorstep. Will my hon. Friend remember her with me, and thank Matthew for his continuing work, ever since losing her, for better outcomes for others?
I want to put on the record my respect for the right hon. Member for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough (John Healey) and the hon. Member for Birmingham Selly Oak (Al Carns). Both served in the roles they relinquished last week with the sincerity and integrity that those roles demanded. Each should be commended for putting the needs of our country before their own this past week, citing the Government’s underwhelming commitment to defence investment—of course, the rest of us will just have to take their word for it. I also have great respect for the incumbent Secretary of State for Defence. I know that he is with the King this week and is unable to explain what it is about the Government’s approach that inspires him but not his predecessor. In his absence, can the Minister explain when we will see the defence investment plan that he has now been left to front?
This cowardly murder is not a reflection on the Sikh community, which has integrated itself into the UK with honour and modesty. I understand that the weapon wielded was not that traditionally carried by Sikhs. However, I believe this murder may give reasonable grounds to review existing exemptions to knife legislation on the grounds of religious reasons and national dress. I know that the Home Secretary wants to halve knife crime within the next 10 years. What message do the exemptions give? Is she honestly going to rule out even a review?
I thank my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) for moving the motion. At the heart of this issue are exploited children and predatory men. Sexual exploitation of children continues to occur across the country. It is not exclusive to a particular skin tone, an individual culture or religion, but leaders and those in authority must acknowledge and address patterns. Who are any of us to deny the testimonies of the victims, as were so heavily laid out by the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe)? Those with responsibility must feel empowered to act in defence of women and girls, without fear of persecution or judgment or of prosecution under the Equality Act. It should not take a humanist to recognise that various interpretations of the Quran, the hadiths, the Torah and the biblical Old Testament continue to validate varying degrees of female subjugation. Malala Yousafzai was shot by religious fundamentalists in Pakistan for daring to advocate for girls’ education. Therefore, where exploitation has taken place by groups that entirely comprised men of Pakistani heritage, there can be no pretence that culture did not factor in their subjugation of those women and girls. I am proud that the UK leads much of the world in our elevation of women. I am equally proud of the enrichment that cultural diversity has brought to our own. But why pretend that integration is frictionless or that any two cultures are perfectly compatible? The rational among us would want integration to take place, so let us not take it for granted. Where there is incompatibility between cultures in this country, no inch should ever be given that would undermine the rights of women and girls.
I thank the right hon. Member for his intervention. I have to say that I am not entirely familiar with the specific instance that he has laid out, but certainly it is ongoing today and across the country. The reasonable among us must not avoid these uncomfortable societal issues. We must never leave the floor open and unchallenged to racists and white supremacists who unfairly denigrate demographics at large for the crimes of a few. In the absence of reasonable voices, this issue has been weaponised by the far right and deployed by its propagandists to sow racial, cultural and religious division.
I fully endorse the hon. Member’s comments. I often feel self-conscious about bringing this issue forward as a man, when really we should be listening to the voices of women and girls, particularly those who have been victims of these crimes. Victims of domestic and sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking deserve to be treated with compassion and sincerity. Their tragedies should not be a foundation over which clamber opportunistic and ambitious politicians desperate to score political points over their opponents, as did the Conservative party in January 2025. It is a continuing tragedy that these cases are most vociferously contested by thugs who attack police and defile our national emblems, by political opportunists and by hostile foreign commentators who call for civil war and violent uprisings against the elected Government. They rarely, if ever, consider the victims. Social media commentators periodically ask me, “What are you doing about grooming gangs?”; they never ask me what I am doing for the victims. Elon Musk’s interest in the 2024 summer riots and the unimaginable crimes that they followed was not in the protection of women and girls. Rather, it was based upon his apartheid-nostalgic white supremacism. Musk’s concern for women and girls extends only to his own attempt to exploit them, as evidenced through his reluctantly public exchanges with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. That brings me to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth—again, I feel self-conscious for delivering this from behind him. Despite Musk’s relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth continues to publicly court him. Last year, he was paid £40,000 by Elon Musk through his platform X, the same platform over which Musk provoked the riots in 2024. In closing, let us bring forward this motion, and let the evidence show that I am sure most sexual abuse of this kind does occur within the family—but let the evidence show where it does not, and let us act upon it as one.
I stood in this Chamber in September last year and spoke of my pride to represent 52 pubs and three breweries. I warned the Government then that, despite their protestations that they were supporting businesses, their hikes in employer national insurance contributions and business rates were hitting hospitality hard. Since then, Winchcombe’s Corner Cupboard inn has closed, and the Inferno Brewery has vacated Bredon Road in Tewkesbury. If the Government do not row back their business taxation, I expect to be back with an updated list. There is one very clear route to economic growth in Gloucestershire. The M5 junction 9A and A46 Ashchurch project requires a Government injection of approximately £1 billion, but it will unlock 100 hectares of employment space while releasing capacity on the UK’s crucial trans-midlands trade corridor. It is a key enabler of the Tewkesbury garden communities project. Combined, those projects will facilitate tens of thousands of new homes, with the community infrastructure that is so desperately needed. In the current geopolitical climate, backing business for economic growth means unleashing the UK’s world-leading defence manufacturing sector, and few regions of the UK boast Gloucestershire’s engineering heritage. In my constituency, I proudly represent Babcock, GE Aerospace, Moog and Safran, each at the top of a chain of small and medium-sized manufacturing and logistics enterprises. The M5 junction 9a project can further enhance Gloucestershire’s contribution to economic growth through the sector, and help the Government to meet their pledged 3% of GDP on defence by 2030. If the UK is serious about generating growth, we cannot be cowed by taboo. We must reckon with the reality that leaving the European Union has been a diplomatic and economic disaster. Reform UK wants to abolish the Office for Budget Responsibility, perhaps because it reported that the UK economy will be 4% smaller by 2035 for having left. That will not help my constituents with the cost of living crisis. Indeed, the OBR’s estimation seems conservative compared with that of other economists. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates a deficit of 5% by 2030, and the US National Bureau of Economic Research says that by last year the impact was already negative by 6% to 8%. No greater mechanism to effect economic growth is available to the Government than negotiating a new customs union with the EU. Last year I met UK businessman Steve Wisbey, who explained the nightmare of red tape that Brexit has caused UK businesses. He spoke of the additional costs of work visas since freedom of movement was surrendered, of temporary import licences, and of cash flows inhibited by VAT now paid up front. Other Members might be keen to avoid rehashing the old arguments of Brexit, but we must not deny its cost. Backing business means undoing the damage caused by Brexit.
5. What steps she is taking to support the BBC.
Trump donor Larry Ellison and his son David own CBS News, will soon own CNN, and part-own TikTok. In 2024, Ellison senior’s Oracle paid a six-figure sum to Hanover Communications, for whom Michael Prescott was a managing director. One year later, Prescott’s leaked internal memo landed the BBC a $5 billion lawsuit from Donald Trump. Rupert Murdoch and GB News founder Robbie Gibb know that when you own the news, you own the people. I believe that our independent news broadcaster is under attack from within and without. How are the Government going to protect it?
I thank my hon. Friend for securing this important debate. Many of my rural constituents are also paying the price of President Trump’s latest exploration into market manipulation. Given that heating oil customers are not protected by the Ofgem price cap, will he join me in calling on the Government to take the Liberal Democrats’ line and implement such a price cap for heating oil customers?
Held . Recorded result: LD Gain. Majority 6,262. 48,539 votes cast from an electorate of 73,458. Parties are as each candidate stood at the time.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Thomas | Liberal Democrat | 20,730 | 42.7% |
| Laurence Robertson | Conservative | 14,468 | 29.8% |
| Byron Davis | Reform UK | 6,000 | 12.4% |
| Damola Animashaun | Labour | 4,298 | 8.9% |
| Cate Cody | Green Party | 2,873 | 5.9% |
| David Edgar | Christian Peoples Alliance | 170 | 0.4% |
| Seat | Dates |
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| TewkesburyElected 1 time | – present |
| Committee | Dates |
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| Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee | – present |
| Controlled Drugs (Procedure for Specification) Bill | – |
| Environmental Audit Committee | – |
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