Anthony Mangnall

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Anthony Mangnall
MP
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Member of Parliament
for Totnes
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded bySarah Wollaston
Majority12,724 (24.4%)
Personal details
Born (1989-08-12) 12 August 1989 (age 32)
Political partyConservative
Alma materUniversity of Exeter

Anthony James Holland Mangnall[1] (born 12 August 1989)[2] is a British Conservative Party politician, who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Totnes since the 2019 general election. Prior to his parliamentary career, Mangnall worked in shipbroking and as a special adviser.

Early life[]

Mangnall's early childhood was spent in Zimbabwe and Northern Ireland.[3] Mangnall was privately educated at the Shrewsbury School in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.[4] After this, he spent three months as a shepherd on the Lochbuie Estate on the Isle of Mull, Scotland.[5] Mangnall then studied history, politics, and sociology at the University of Exeter.[6] During his time at university, he worked as a researcher in the parliamentary office of former Richmond (Yorks) MP and Foreign Secretary William Hague.[7]

Mangnall moved to Singapore in 2012 to work as a broker for shipbroking company Braemar ACM. He joined Poten and Partners in London in 2014. Mangnall then returned to politics in 2016 and worked in Hague's office as a special adviser.[6][8]

Parliamentary career[]

Mangnall was selected as the Conservative candidate for Totnes on 20 July 2019.[9] Prior to his selection, he was working as a special adviser to then Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns.[3][6] He had previously contested the notionally safe Labour constituency of Warley in the West Midlands in the 2017 general election.[5] Mangnall was elected in the 2019 general election with a majority of 12,724. The seat had previously been represented by Sarah Wollaston who had left the Conservatives in February to join Change UK, and subsequently stood as a Liberal Democrats candidate in the constituency.[10]

As Chair of the All-party parliamentary group for the UK's Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative, Mangnall has been outspoken in opposing cuts to UK overseas aid.[11][12] In 2020 he authored a paper for the One Nation Conservatives (caucus) exploring how to spend aid more effectively.[13]

Mangnall has also been a member of the Regulatory Reform Committee since March 2020 and was elected to the International Trade Select Committee on 9 November 2020.[14][15]

In 2020, Mangnall brought forward a backbench bill to require all MPs who switched political parties to stand in a by-election justifying their decision to their constituents.[16] He argued this was necessary due to 17 MPs switching parties in 2019, including his predecessor, which he claimed effectively disenfranchised their 1.2 million electors for the duration of that Parliament.[17]

References[]

  1. ^ "Members Sworn". parliament.uk. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  2. ^ Brunskill, Ian (19 March 2020). The Times guide to the House of Commons 2019 : the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574.
  3. ^ a b "Anthony Mangnall". Totnes Conservatives. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  4. ^ "The Salopian" (PDF). p. 62. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  5. ^ a b Ireland, Shane (9 June 2017). "UK General Election 2017 results: Warley held by Labour". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  6. ^ a b c Bond, Daniel (16 December 2019). "Class of 2019: Meet the new MPs". Politics Home. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  7. ^ "Register Of Interests Of Members' Secretaries And Research Assistants [as at 28th October 2011]". parliament.uk. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  8. ^ Booth, Richard; Clark, Daniel (13 December 2019). "Totnes General Election 2019 results live". Devon Live. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  9. ^ Merritt, Anita (21 July 2019). "The battle to become the next Totnes MP steps up a gear". Devon Live. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  10. ^ "Totnes MP Sarah Wollaston loses seat after party switch". BBC News. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  11. ^ "Register of APPGs (as of 10 March 2021), Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative"". parliament.uk. 10 March 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Telegraph, "'A commitment to the world's poorest': government urged to preserve aid budget"". telegraph.co.uk. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  13. ^ "One Nation Caucus, "Global Britain and Development" Paper". one-nation-conservatives.com. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  14. ^ "Membership of Regulatory Reform Committee announced". parliament.uk. 2 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  15. ^ "Anthony Mangnall MP, Parliamentary Career". parliament.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  16. ^ "Guido Fawkes, "Sarah Wollaston's successor introducing Bill to force recall petitions for defecting MPs"". order-order.com. 1 September 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  17. ^ "Recall of MPs (Change of Party Affiliation)". theyworkforyou.com. 2 September 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2021.

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