1. Sally-Ann Hart was born on 6 March 1968 and is a British politician who was the member of parliament for Hastings and Rye from 2019 to 2024.
17 Facts About Sally-Ann Hart
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Sally-Ann Hart studied geography at King's College London before qualifying as a lawyer and working for a law firm in the City of London.
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Sally-Ann Hart went on to become a solicitor and then a magistrate in Hastings with a focus on family law, and she has cited this work as one of her motivations for becoming a member of parliament.
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The first elected position Sally-Ann Hart was elected to was as a councillor representing the Eastern Rother ward on Rother District Council in East Sussex.
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Sally-Ann Hart stood as the Conservative Party candidate for North West Durham at the 2017 general election.
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At the 2019 general election, Sally-Ann Hart was selected to stand as the Conservative candidate for Hastings and Rye.
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Sally-Ann Hart defended the view, and said "it's about the happiness to work" and that "some people with learning difficulties, they don't understand about money".
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Sally-Ann Hart was elected as MP for Hastings and Rye 12 December 2019 with 26,896 votes and a majority of 4,043 votes, an increase from the previous majority of 346.
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Sally-Ann Hart liked a comment underneath the video which said "Ein Reich", a Nazi slogan.
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Sally-Ann Hart described the blog, in which Berens condemned the 2017 Women's March against US President Donald Trump as being used to promote a "Muslim agenda", as an "affecting read".
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On 10 August 2020, in an interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy for Channel 4 News, Sally-Ann Hart said that the investigation into the allegations over her social media posts had concluded and that she was "not found to be anti-Semitic, Islamophobic or anything else", although she had attended social media training.
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On 19 January 2021, Sally-Ann Hart was one of 33 Conservative MPs to rebel against the government in support of the Genocide Amendment to the Trade Bill, alongside other Conservative parliamentarians including David Davis and Iain Duncan Smith.
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Sally-Ann Hart introduced a private members' bill to the House of Commons in 2023.
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From May 2020, Sally-Ann Hart was a member of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee and the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art.
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Sally-Ann Hart was a member of the Education Bill Committee in September 2021.
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Sally-Ann Hart was the chair, vice-chair or an officer of several all-party parliamentary groups including on special educational needs and disability, school exclusions and alternative provision, almshouses and wetlands.
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Sally-Ann Hart was the secretary of the APPG on hospitality and tourism.