Justin Tomlinson
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Justin Tomlinson MP |
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| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Disabled People | |
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In office 8 May 2015 – 15 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Mark Harper |
| Succeeded by | Penny Mordaunt |
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Member of Parliament for North Swindon |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Wills |
| Majority | 11,786 (22.6%) |
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5 November 1976 Blackburn, Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Joanne Wheeler |
| Relations | Brother Mark Hicken |
| Alma mater | Oxford Brookes |
| Website | www |
Justin Paul Tomlinson (born 5 November 1976) is the Conservative MP for North Swindon. He was originally a Conservative Councillor on Swindon Borough Council, being elected in 2000. He is the current Member of Parliament for Swindon North. He was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Disabled People following the 2015 general election victory of the Conservative Party, serving until new Prime Minister Theresa May reshuffled the government in 2016. Prior to that he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ed Vaizey
Tomlinson was educated at Harry Cheshire High School, a state comprehensive in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and Oxford Brookes University, where he was Chairman of its Conservative Student Branch from 1995–99. He was National Chairman of Conservative Future, the youth-wing of the Conservative Party, between 2002 and 2003.
Tomlinson was manager of a nightclub called Eros in Swindon, Wiltshire. He also operated a small marketing business.
Tomlinson stood in the 2005 general election, but lost to Labour MP Michael Wills by 2,571 votes. He won the seat from Labour in the 2010 general election, defeating Labour candidate Victor Agarwall by 7,060 votes. In total, Tomlinson received 22,408 votes (44.6% of the vote), with a swing of 10.1% from Labour to the conservatives.
Along with fellow MP Chris Kelly, Tomlinson placed a bet while at university that he would be Prime Minister before the year 2038. He stands to win £500,000 should this happen.
Tomlinson sat on the Public Accounts Committee between 2012 and 2014.
He reported fellow MP Sadiq Khan to the police in 2014 after Khan was photographed apparently driving whilst using a mobile phone. Tomlinson said "those who make the laws should certainly not be above them".
Tomlinson was given the role of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Disabled People in May 2015.
Tomlinson faced calls for his resignation in October 2015 after it was revealed than he had leaked information from the Public Accounts committee regarding regulation of short term high cost credit "payday lenders" to Wonga.com back in 2013. Tomlinson accepted he had broken the rules and apologised, claiming that his "strongly-held belief that action needed to be taken on payday lenders" had caused his "judgement to be clouded".
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