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Julian Sturdy
MP
Official portrait, 2019
Member of Parliament
for York Outer
In office
6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Preceded byConstituency created
Succeeded byLuke Charters[1]
Personal details
Born (1971-06-03) 3 June 1971 (age 53)
NationalityEnglish
Political partyConservative
SpouseVictoria
Residence(s)North Yorkshire, England
Alma materHarper Adams University
Websitewww.juliansturdy.co.uk

Julian Charles Sturdy[2] (born 3 June 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician and farmer. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for York Outer from 2010 to 2024.

Early life and career

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Sturdy grew up in Yorkshire, England.[3] From 1981 to 1989, he was privately educated at Ashville College, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.[4] He then studied at Harper Adams Agricultural College close to the village of Edgmond (near to the market town of Newport, Shropshire).[5] He is a farmer.[6]

Political career

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Prior to entering Parliament, Sturdy served as a Harrogate councillor, between 2002 and 2007.[5] He stood as the Conservative Party candidate for Scunthorpe in the 2005 general election, finishing second with 25.7% of the vote.[7]

First elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for York Outer in the 2010 general election with a majority of 3,688,[8] Sturdy became a member of the Transport Select Committee in July that year.[9]

In 2012, Sturdy was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Transport Minister, Simon Burns.[citation needed]

Sturdy successfully introduced a private member's bill introducing new procedures for handling horses abandoned or left to graze on others' land. The Control of Horses Bill passed into law in 2015 and was welcomed by the British Horse Society.[10]

He was re-elected in the 2017 general election with 51.1 per cent of votes cast.[11]

He has a mixed voting record in Parliament on the issue of regulating fracking, with two votes against greater environmental controls and two votes for more conditions and restrictions on where it can take place.[12]

In December 2023, Sturdy was one of 22 Conservative Members of Parliament to rebel in support of Diana Johnson's New Clause 27 to the Victim and Prisoner's Bill to speed up compensation to victims of the Infected Blood Scandal.[13][14] The amendment passed by 4 votes - the first defeat of Rishi Sunak's premiership. In the 2019-2024 Parliament, Sturdy was in the top 50 most rebellious Conservative Members of Parliament.[15]

Sturdy chaired the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Science and Technology in Agriculture during the 2019 - 2024 Parliament.[16][17] Between 2017 - 2024, Sturdy served on the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Select Committee in Parliament.[18]

In 2019 The People-Power Index, from Change.org, ranked all of the country's 650 MPs based on a number of criteria, including their availability to constituents, participation in Parliament and whether they listen to the public. Julian ranked at number 53 out of 54 in Yorkshire (nationally ranked 630th).[19]

Following the publication of the Sue Gray report, Sturdy called for the resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.[20] In 2022, Sturdy supported Rishi Sunak for leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister.[21]

Personal life

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Sturdy is divorced and has two children. The family live in North Yorkshire. Sturdy's then-wife, Victoria, was caught drink driving in 2018 collecting her children from school.[22] Sturdy's father is Robert Sturdy, a former Conservative Party MEP.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "York Outer - General election results 2024". BBC News. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  2. ^ "No. 59,418". The London Gazette. 13 May 2010. pp. 8, 746.
  3. ^ a b "Democracy Live: Your representatives: Julian Sturdy". BBC News. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  4. ^ "Newly Elected MP Speech Day Guest of Honour (on page 2)" (PDF). The Ashvillian Society. June 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Julian Sturdy". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  6. ^ "Julian Sturdy interview: We need farming industry making money to get green benefits". The Yorkshire Post. 10 February 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Scunthorpe". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  8. ^ "York Outer". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  9. ^ "Membership of Transport Committee confirmed". Parliament.uk. 13 July 2010. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  10. ^ "Welfare and Rural Organisations Welcome Passage of Fly-Grazing Bill into Law". British Horse Society. 18 March 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  11. ^ Election 2017. "York outer results 2017". BBC News. Retrieved 10 October 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "They Work for You". GOV.UK. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  13. ^ "How your MP voted as Rishi Sunak suffers first Commons defeat". 5 December 2023.
  14. ^ "GENERAL ELECTION 2024: "It feels like 2010" says Tory MP tipped to lose". 11 June 2024.
  15. ^ "The Public Whip — Voting Record - ()".
  16. ^ https://appgamr.com/ [bare URL]
  17. ^ https://www.appg-agscience.org.uk/ [bare URL]
  18. ^ "New Faces on the EFRA Committee". 11 September 2017.
  19. ^ "Every MP has been ranked from best to worst - here's how yours did". 2019.
  20. ^ Buchan, Lizzy (26 May 2022). "Senior Tory demands Boris Johnson resigns – and suggests he lied to Parliament". mirror. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  21. ^ "» Julian endorses Rishi Sunak to be Leader of the Conservative Prime Minister : Julian Sturdy - Strong Voice for York Outer".
  22. ^ Laycock, Mike (7 November 2018) [7 November 2018]. "Victoria Sturdy – wife of York MP Julian Sturdy – admits drink driving". The York Press. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
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