1. Andrew Lewer lost his seat in the 2024 General Election to Mike Reader of the Labour Party.
22 Facts About Andrew Lewer
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Andrew Lewer was the Chairman of 7 All Party Parliamentary Groups, including Motor Neurone Disease, Venezuela, Independent Education, Devolution, Publishing, SME Housebuilders, and the Private Rented Sector.
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Andrew Lewer was a member of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee, as well as the Education Select Committee.
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Andrew Lewer was awarded an MBE for services to local government in 2014.
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Andrew Lewer was elected to the European Parliament representing the East Midlands in 2014, replacing the former Conservative MEP Roger Helmer, who had defected to UKIP.
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Andrew Lewer was appointed to the Regional Development Committee and the Culture Committee as spokesperson for the European Conservative and Reformists Group in 2014.
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Andrew Lewer supported Brexit, as he felt that David Cameron had failed to gain any meaningful concessions from his European counterparts.
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In May 2017, Andrew Lewer was selected to run as the new Conservative Party candidate for the Northampton South parliamentary constituency after the sitting Conservative MP David Mackintosh stood down.
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Andrew Lewer was elected Member of Parliament for Northampton South in the 2017 general election.
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In February 2018, following the announcement that Northamptonshire County Council had brought in a section 114 notice, putting it in special measures following a crisis in its finances, Andrew Lewer was one of seven local MPs who released a statement expressing 'no confidence' in the council's leadership.
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In March 2018, Andrew Lewer was criticised by local campaigners over cuts to library services in Northampton.
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Andrew Lewer responded that he had been far from silent on the issue and that he had been a long-standing critic of the leadership of the council.
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In December 2020 Andrew Lewer was fired from his PPS post for leaking information to the press, after a canary trap.
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Andrew Lewer denied leaking, but suggested the leak could have come from a member of his staff.
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In January 2021 Andrew Lewer wrote an open letter to the Northamptonshire Chief Constable asking that the Police do not focus on 'soft targets' for Covid fines.
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In December 2021 Andrew Lewer backed the campaign to build a monument to commemorate the efforts of the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, a former pilot of which, George Pritchard, lives in his Northampton South constituency.
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In October 2022, Andrew Lewer was elected unopposed to the Education Select Committee.
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Andrew Lewer led a Westminster Hall debate on 10 May 2023 on small and medium sized housebuilders, highlighting the reduction of their number in the last fifteen years.
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In December 2023 Andrew Lewer authored a report for the Centre for Policy Studies "Choices for Children" where he described the benefits of boarding schools for some children in local authority care.
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Andrew Lewer lost his seat in the 2024 General Election to Mike Reader of the Labour Party.
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Andrew Lewer is an honorary Alderman of the county of Derbyshire, where he was based before being elected as an MP.
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Andrew Lewer is the only person in the UK to have served as a Council Leader, MEP and MP.