37 Facts About Jonathan Gullis

Jonathan Gullis was previously appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School Standards by Liz Truss in September 2022 but was dismissed shortly after Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister in October 2022.

In March 2024, Gullis was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, replacing Luke Hall who had been appointed Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education.

Jonathan Gullis was born on 9 January 1990 in Salisbury.

Jonathan Gullis attended Princethorpe College, an independent school near Rugby.

Jonathan Gullis studied International Relations with Law at Oxford Brookes University and obtained a PGCE in secondary citizenship at the Institute of Education.

Jonathan Gullis worked in schools from 2012 to 2019 and compared his teaching experiences to boxing.

Jonathan Gullis worked in schools including Blackfen School for Girls, Ashlawn School, Greenwood Academy, and Fairfax Academy.

Jonathan Gullis described his classroom personality as "a mixture of Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg", and said that he "liked to play the character of an English gent".

Jonathan Gullis was elected as a Conservative councillor in the Shipston ward of Stratford-upon-Avon in May 2011, until he resigned in October 2012 after starting a teaching job in London.

Jonathan Gullis stood in Washington and Sunderland West at the 2017 general election, but lost to incumbent Labour MP Sharon Hodgson.

Jonathan Gullis was elected as the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North at the 2019 general election, unseating Labour's Ruth Smeeth and becoming the first Conservative to represent the constituency.

At the time of his election, Jonathan Gullis was employed as a school teacher and head of year at Fairfax Academy in Sutton Coldfield, and served as the school's trade union representative.

Jonathan Gullis joined the European Research Group shortly after entering Parliament.

On 30 April 2020, Jonathan Gullis was criticised by Piers Morgan after he complained of the media's 'sick obsession' with the number of deaths during the coronavirus pandemic.

Jonathan Gullis was responding to a tweet by radio presenter James O'Brien.

Jonathan Gullis described comparisons with the number of deaths in other countries as 'lazy' in a now deleted tweet.

Jonathan Gullis later apologised for his 'poor choice of words'.

Jonathan Gullis later closed his Twitter account, but reopened it in November 2023.

In October 2020, after voting against a Labour Party Opposition Day Motion to extend free school meals until Easter 2021, Jonathan Gullis said that he would not address a "baying mob" in response to rumours of a protest during his visit to a church foodbank.

In October 2020, Jonathan Gullis stated on his Facebook page that research by the National Maritime Museum into the Royal Navy's links to slavery was "leftwing ideological nonsense".

In November 2020, following an interim report on the connections between colonialism and properties now in the care of the National Trust, including links with historic slavery, Jonathan Gullis was among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph from the "Common Sense Group" of Conservative MPs.

On 23 February 2021, Jonathan Gullis was prevented by the Deputy Speaker from taking part in a debate in the House of Commons from home for being inappropriately dressed.

Jonathan Gullis changed into a suit, and was then allowed to participate.

In October 2021, Jonathan Gullis suggested at a fringe meeting during the Conservative Party conference that people using the term "white privilege" should be reported to the Home Office as extremists.

Jonathan Gullis has praised schemes for getting disabled people into work.

Jonathan Gullis cited a video he saw about an American man with Down syndrome who had worked at McDonald's "for 30 years and had a happy life".

Jonathan Gullis has described Black Lives Matter as "a Marxist organisation that wants to abolish the nuclear family and defund the police".

In January 2022, Jonathan Gullis defended his decision not to wear a face covering in the Commons chamber, stating that masks were not mandatory in the Commons.

Jonathan Gullis resigned as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on 5 July 2022 in the aftermath of the Chris Pincher scandal and called on Boris Johnson to resign as Prime Minister.

Jonathan Gullis endorsed Liz Truss in the July-September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election.

In September 2022, Jonathan Gullis was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School Standards by Truss after her appointment as Prime Minister.

Jonathan Gullis announced his intention to support the Government from the backbenches.

In December 2022, on BBC Radio 4's The World at One programme, Jonathan Gullis defended the government's plan to offshore the processing of asylum seekers to Rwanda.

In October 2024, Jonathan Gullis told the BBC that he had been unable to find permanent employment since losing his seat in July, stating that he believed this was related to his political views.

In March 2020, as part of a mental health awareness campaign run by the Stoke Sentinel, Jonathan Gullis said that he has suffered with depression, self-harm and suicidal thoughts during periods of his life.

In June 2020, in a parliamentary debate on divorce law reform, Jonathan Gullis said that he has gone through a divorce and supported the "no fault" divorce proposal.

Jonathan Gullis has one daughter and one son with his partner, Nkita.