36 Facts About Peter Bone

Peter Bone has been the Member of Parliament for Wellingborough since 2005.

Peter Bone campaigned for Brexit in the EU referendum and was part of the political advisory board of Leave Means Leave.

In 1978, Peter Bone was elected as a councillor for the Blenheim ward on Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, where he served for eight years until 1986.

Peter Bone was elected as the Deputy Chairman of the Southend West Conservative Association in 1977 and continued in the position until 1984.

Peter Bone unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Islwyn in the South Wales valleys at the 1992 general election against the then Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock.

Peter Bone was a member of the National Union Executive Committee between 1993 until 1996.

Peter Bone regularly referenced his then wife "Mrs Bone" in questions to the Prime Minister's Questions.

Peter Bone is a member of the 1922 Committee and was an executive member from 2007 to 2012.

In March 2009, Peter Bone was one of the key speakers opposing the use of the House of Commons by the UK Youth Parliament, having been appointed one of the Tellers.

Peter Bone proposed a bill in July 2013, arguing that the August Bank Holiday should be renamed to Margaret Thatcher Day to commemorate her premiership.

Peter Bone was frequently critical of the Coalition Government between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats.

Peter Bone was re-elected again in the 2017 general election.

In February 2018, following the announcement that Northamptonshire County Council had brought in a "section 114" notice, putting it in special measures following a crises in its finances, Peter Bone was one of seven local MPs who released a statement arguing that the problems with the authority were down to mismanagement from the Conservative councillors who led it rather than funding cuts from the Conservative Government.

Peter Bone has previously been a member of the Trade and Industry Select Committee, the Health Select Committee, the Backbench Business Committee, the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and the Commons Committee on Statutory Instruments.

In June 2018, Peter Bone defended fellow Conservative MP Christopher Chope after he was widely criticised for blocking a Private member's bill to make it illegal to take photos of people aimed up their skirts.

Peter Bone voted for Liz Truss to be the new Conservative leader and was part of her transition team, however he was sacked from his ministerial role after she became Prime Minister.

Peter Bone is regarded as being on the right wing of the Conservative Party, and is a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group.

Peter Bone has suggested major constitutional changes such as abolition of the Whips office and confirmation of new Cabinet appointees.

Peter Bone has voted to lower the abortion time limit to twelve weeks and voted against abolishing the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel.

Peter Bone has urged the Charity Commission to award the tax breaks of registration to any legal faith group.

In 2009, Peter Bone opposed the introduction of the National Minimum Wage, which he claimed would "condemn hundreds of thousands to the dole queue", and later backed a private member's bill tabled by his colleague Christopher Chope proposing to enable employees to opt out of the minimum wage.

In 2009, Peter Bone said: "We have gone from having one of the best health services in the Western world to arguably the worst", which had "centralised and Stalinist management".

Peter Bone described government proposals to introduce same-sex marriage rights as "completely nuts".

Peter Bone subsequently voted against the Marriage Act 2013.

Peter Bone blamed the Liberal Democrats for tying David Cameron's hands.

In 2014, Peter Bone described UKIP's emergence as a "good thing for British politics", and criticised his own party for "neglecting" the views of traditional Conservatives on other issues such as immigration, but said he intended to campaign for withdrawal from the EU from within the Conservative Party.

Peter Bone is a director of Grassroots Out and was a director of the now dissolved Go Movement Limited with Nigel Farage and Tom Pursglove.

In September 2019, Peter Bone said that a general election would be a "good thing" and a necessary step in order to establish a "Conservative government with a majority" and prevent a no-deal Brexit.

Peter Bone said that Boris Johnson would be an "excellent prime minister and get a proper Brexit deal and lead us to victory in the next general election".

On 6 June 2022, after a vote of no confidence in Johnson's leadership was called, Peter Bone announced that he would vote in support of him.

Peter Bone married Jeanette Sweeney in 1981; together they had two sons and a daughter.

In 2016, Peter Bone separated from his wife, who is a Conservative Councillor in the Borough of Wellingborough, and he is currently in a relationship with physiotherapist Helen Harrison, who is his Executive Secretary.

Peter Bone played cricket as a left-arm bowler for Cambridge Methodists Cricket Club in Leeds.

Peter Bone has played cricket as a member of a Parliamentarians team, alongside Crispin Blunt and Hugh Robertson.

Peter Bone is an active member of the Church of England and attends St Mary's Church in Rushden, as well as holding constituency surgeries in the church hall.

Peter Bone was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months.