Jo Churchill

Johanna Peta Churchill[1] is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury St. Edmunds since the 2015 general election. She has been serving as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household since 2022.[2] In that role, she took part in the 2023 Coronation.[3]

Jo Churchill
MP
Official portrait, 2020
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
Assumed office
8 September 2022
Prime MinisterLiz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Preceded byMichael Tomlinson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Agri-Innovation and Climate Adaptation
In office
16 September 2021 – 6 July 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byVictoria Prentis
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care
In office
26 July 2019 – 16 September 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded bySeema Kennedy
Succeeded byMaria Caulfield
Member of Parliament
for Bury St Edmunds
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded byDavid Ruffley
Majority24,988 (40.3%)
Personal details
Political partyConservative
WebsiteOfficial website

Early life

Johanna Churchill was educated at Dame Alice Harpur School.[4]

Career

Churchill was the finance director of a scaffolding company and served on Lincolnshire County Council.[5]

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.[6] She has previously sat on the Women and Equalities Committee and the Environmental Audit Select Committee.[7]

Churchill was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.[8] 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.[9]

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 in the first Johnson ministry.

In September 2021, Churchill was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Agri-Innovation and Climate Adaptation at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs during the second cabinet reshuffle of the second Johnson ministry.[10] She resigned from this position in 2022 in protest at Boris Johnson's conduct in the Chris Pincher scandal.[11]

References
  1. "No. 61230". The London Gazette. 18 May 2015. p. 9125.
  2. "Ministerial Appointments: September 2022". GOV.UK. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  3. "Coronation order of service in full". BBC News. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  4. "Churchill, Johanna Peta". Who's Who. A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U283969. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. "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.
  6. "Bury St Edmunds". BBC News. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  7. "Environmental Audit Committee". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  8. 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.
  9. Walker, Peter (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.
  10. "Ministerial appointments: September 2021". 16 September 2021.
  11. Geater, Paul (6 July 2022). "Jo Churchill quits as minister over Boris Johnson's leadership". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
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