1. Christopher Ian Brian Mynott Philp was born on 6 July 1976 and is a British politician who has served as Shadow Home Secretary since November 2024.
36 Facts About Chris Philp
1. 2.
Chris Philp held the post of Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire from October 2022 to July 2024.
3.
Chris Philp was previously appointed to Liz Truss's cabinet from September to October 2022 as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General.
4.
Chris Philp was briefly the Minister for London from December 2019 to February 2020.
5.
Chris Philp was moved to the position of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy by Johnson in the September 2021 reshuffle.
6.
Chris Philp resigned from this post during the July 2022 government crisis.
7.
In October 2022, when Kwasi Kwarteng was dismissed as Chancellor as a result of his "mini-budget", Chris Philp was demoted to Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General.
8.
In Opposition, Chris Philp held the role Shadow Leader of the House of Commons in the Sunak caretaker Shadow Cabinet before becoming Shadow Home Secretary in November 2024 following the election of Kemi Badenoch as leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition.
9.
Christopher Philp was born in West Wickham, London, and attended St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington, Bromley, before studying physics at University College, Oxford, graduating in 1997.
10.
In 1996, while a second-year student at Oxford, Chris Philp was fined and suspended by the Oxford Union for recording a controversial speech by OJ Simpson and selling copies to newspapers.
11.
Chris Philp founded property development lender Pluto Finance and Moreof Silverstone.
12.
Chris Philp founded the charity The Next Big Thing, which was solvently wound up in 2017.
13.
Chris Philp was Chairman of the Bow Group, a Conservative Party think tank, from 2004 to 2005.
14.
Chris Philp did not stand at the 2010 local elections.
15.
Chris Philp was the author of Work for the Dole: A proposal to fix welfare dependency, published by The Taxpayers' Alliance in September 2013.
16.
Chris Philp's report called for mandatory participation in community work and training in return for the continued payment of benefits payments.
17.
In November 2013, Chris Philp was selected to be the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Croydon South.
18.
Shortly after being elected to Parliament, Chris Philp became the first of the 2015 Conservative intake to be elected by other MPs to the influential Treasury Select Committee.
19.
Chris Philp was opposed to Brexit before the 2016 European membership referendum.
20.
Chris Philp has been an outspoken critic of Govia Thameslink Railway's ownership of Southern Rail; in 2017, Chris Philp called for the government to take control of the Southern Rail franchise and for cross-party support in ending disputes between Southern Rail and the RMT Union.
21.
Chris Philp proposed a Private Member's Bill to ban "unreasonable" and "damaging" strikes on essential services, including trains.
22.
Chris Philp was made PPS to Sajid Javid then Secretary of State for the Ministry Housing, Communities and Local Government on 22 January 2018.
23.
Chris Philp had backed Javid in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election.
24.
In September 2019, Chris Philp was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Ministry of Justice.
25.
Chris Philp replaced Matt Warman as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital in September 2021.
26.
On 7 July 2022, Chris Philp resigned from government in protest at Boris Johnson's leadership following a large number of other ministerial resignations during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
27.
Chris Philp was appointed by Liz Truss as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and made a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
28.
Chris Philp was demoted to Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, the two positions that his successor Edward Argar had previously held.
29.
Chris Philp held this post until the defeat of the Conservative party in the 2024 general election.
30.
In September 2023, it was revealed that Chris Philp is a member of a social media group in which criminal acts, damage and vandalism to public property are celebrated on a near-daily basis, especially vandalism of ULEZ cameras.
31.
In 2024, Chris Philp opposed the construction of a small block of flats on the plot of one family home in Purley, siding with a local residents association.
32.
When questioned by an audience member, Chris Philp appeared to confuse Rwanda with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and seemed unsure as to whether they were separate countries.
33.
Chris Philp later said that the question was rhetorical as he had had difficulty hearing the original question.
34.
Chris Philp retained his seat in the 2024 United Kingdom general election, but with a reduced majority of 2,313 compared to 12,339 at the previous general election.
35.
Chris Philp was accused of illegally using confidential information from her former employer to set up a rival business.
36.
When questioned about the case in a local hustings, Chris Philp acknowledged the ongoing case, but refused to confirm or deny whether he was a stakeholder in the business.