Felicity Buchan served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from September to October 2022.
15 Facts About Felicity Buchan
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Felicity Buchan is the Member of Parliament for Kensington in London since 2019.
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Felicity Buchan attended the Fraserburgh Academy comprehensive school in Fraserburgh and subsequently studied law at Christ Church, Oxford.
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Felicity Buchan worked for a decade at American investment bank JPMorgan Chase in their syndicate and capital markets division and was promoted to vice president of their European syndicate.
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Felicity Buchan left the company in 2001 to join Bank of America as a managing director in its debt capital markets division.
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Felicity Buchan contested South Down in Northern Ireland as a Conservative candidate in the 2015 general election, coming last with 318 votes.
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Felicity Buchan then contested the South Shields seat in Tyne and Wear in 2017, where she came second to the incumbent Labour Party MP, Emma Lewell-Buck, with 10,570 votes.
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Felicity Buchan was selected as the Conservative candidate for Kensington on 16 July 2019.
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Felicity Buchan was elected as MP in the 2019 general election with a majority of 150.
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Felicity Buchan was a member of the Treasury Select Committee between March 2020 and December 2021.
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Felicity Buchan has been a member of the Finance Committee since March 2020.
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On 7 September 2020, Felicity Buchan voted against a Labour Party amendment to the Fire Safety Bill which was intended to implement the recommendations of the first phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry before the end of the consultation process.
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Felicity Buchan defended her vote by stating the government was "committed to implementing the recommendations", and criticised the Labour Party for "misrepresenting the vote" for political reasons.
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Felicity Buchan was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in September 2021.
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Felicity Buchan resigned from her PPS role on 6 July 2022, in protest against the leadership of Prime Minister Boris Johnson over his handling of the Chris Pincher scandal.