Chris Loder
Chris Loder | |
|---|---|
 Loder in 2020 | |
| Member of Parliament for West Dorset | |
| Assumed office 12 December 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Oliver Letwin |
| Majority | 14,106 (23.1%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 September 1981 Sherborne, Dorset[1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Occupation | Politician |
Christopher Lionel John Loder[2] (born 5 September 1981)[3] is a British Conservative politician who has been the MP for West Dorset since the 2019 general election.[4] He succeeded the independent MP Sir Oliver Letwin, who did not stand for reelection. He had previously worked as head of new trains for South Western Railway.[5]
Early life[]
Loder was born at the Yeatman Hospital in Sherborne in September 1981. He grew up near Folke in Dorset on his parents' family farm, and attended The Gryphon School in Sherborne. Aged 18, he joined South West Trains as a train guard and continued to work in the rail industry, rising to become head of new trains, until his election to parliament in 2019.[1]
Political career[]
Loder became Parish Clerk for Bishops Caundle in 1998, and was awarded the young person's merit award for commitment to the local community.[1] He was elected to West Dorset District Council to represent the ward of Cam Vale in 2013, the seat was subject to a boundary review and Loder was not re-elected when the seat became a multi-member ward in 2015. Loder was Chairman of West Dorset Conservatives for more than three years until August 2019.
He is a member of the "Common Sense Group" of Conservative Parliamentarians; part of their mission is to "ensure institutional custodians of history and heritage, tasked with safeguarding and celebrating British values, are not coloured by cultural Marxist dogma, colloquially known as the 'woke agenda'". Following an interim report on the connections between colonialism and properties now in the care of the National Trust, Loder was among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph from the group asking that "History must neither be sanitised nor rewritten to suit 'snowflake' preoccupations".[6][7]
Personal life[]
One of Loder's hobbies is bell ringing at local churches in Dorset.[8]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "About Chris Loder". Conservative Party (UK). Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ "Members Sworn". Hansard.parliament.uk. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ 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. 174. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574.
- ^ "Dorset West Parliamentary Constituency results". BBC News. 12 December 2019.
- ^ Lea, Martin (1 October 2019). "Chris Loder new Conservative Parliamentary candidate for West Dorset". Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ "Britain's heroes". Letter to the Daily Telegraph. 9 November 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2021.CS1 maint: others (link)
- ^ "Letter to the Telegraph". Sir Edward Leigh. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
- ^ "Bell ringing in Dorset". Twitter.com. 27 October 2019.
External links[]
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
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