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who’s who in health
the
2010
conservative
intake
1Contents
Foreword, by Charles Lewington 3
Helen Grant, Maidstone and the Weald 4
Phillip Lee, Bracknell 5
Daniel Poulter, Central Suffolk and Ipswich North 6
George Freeman, Mid Norfolk 7
Sarah Wollaston, Totnes 8
Maggie Throup, Solihull 9
Mark Coote, Cheltenham 10
Penny Mordaunt, Portsmouth North 11
Maria Hutchings, Eastleigh 12
Margot James, Stourbridge 13
Paul Maynard, Blackpool North and Cleveleys 14
Helen Whately, Kingston and Surbition 15
Rowena Holland, Nottingham South 16
Julia Manning, to be selected 17
Departures, voluntary and involuntary 18-19
2Foreword
At the next general election the House of
Commons may undergo its most radical
change since 1945. An unexpected number
of retiring MPs, coupled with a sizeable
predicted swing to the Conservatives
means well over a third of the new
Parliament could be new MPs. Even if the
Conservatives gain an overall majority of
one, more than half their MPs will be new
to Parliament. Change of this scale will
have huge implications for business.
Much has been made of the “ones to
watch” in this predicted new intake of MPs. This booklet highlights candidates
with a healthcare interest, including unique information gained from them
via a hanover survey of their opinions and priorities.
This booklet focuses on Conservative PPCs, some of whom will be certain of
election as they are fighting seats with large majorities, or ones estimated to
have had large notional majorities in 2005 with the new boundaries. Others
will have a harder fight ahead, but with a national swing of 7%+ needed for
the narrowest of Conservative majorities the party is working hard to win these
seats. While we did not originally set out to look solely at the Conservatives,
they can expect to form the bulk of the class of 2010, and of the candidates
from other parties selected to date, few have a health specialism.
The candidates’ backgrounds range from scientist to investor, GP to
PCT board member, policy advisor to aid worker and patient advocate.
They have many common priorities and concerns: care of old people;
prevention; improved access and decentralisation, to name but a few, but in
how healthcare should be organised and funded there is a plurality of views.
Given the tough challenges health faces over the coming years the views
and energy of this new intake will be critical.
3 January 2010Conservative
Helen Grant notional majority
PPC for Maidstone and the Weald of 12,922
Helen inherits the She strongly believes in the importance of
seat from Rt Hon listening to patients, understanding them
Anne Widdecombe and the communities in which they live:
who held the health
brief in opposition “highest
If we are committed to delivering the
quality of care and service we must
under William
Hague’s leadership.
know our customers.
”
She took an active She wants to see widespread reform
role in the NHS as “
stretching from financing a world
a non-executive director of the Croydon ”
class commissioning service through
NHS Primary Care Trust from January “
to the public perception of the NHS.
If we can improve the perception
2005 until 2007. Helen is also the founding
member of the executive committee of of the NHS then this would lead
the MASH campaign, which aims to save to a more motivated workforce.
”
Maidstone’s Hospital Services, and she
regularly meets with the Chairmen of the Helen considers the NHS to be:
Maidstone Hospital Trust Board and their
overseeing Primary Care Trust board. “ Ahealth
pearl of our society – universal
care free at the point of need.
Her family background is rooted in We must support it and protect it,
healthcare. Her grandmother was a nursing but also improve it by making it more
sister, her father a doctor and orthopaedic
surgeon, her mother a nurse and she has
responsive to patients’ needs.
”
two sisters, one who is a doctor and the
other a nurse.
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Teenage pregnancy Maidstone and Tunbridge
• Smoking Wells Hospital
• Cancer screening Quality of Service: ✪
• Childhood immunisation Financial Management: ✪ ✪
• Weight management
Key: ✪ Weak ✪✪✪✪ Excellent
✪ ✪ Fair Source: Care
4
✪✪✪ Good Quality CommissionConservative
Phillip Lee notional majority
PPC for Bracknell of 12,036
Phillip was selected He cancelled his BMA membership shortly
by members of the after qualifying as a doctor as he felt they
local community did not stand up for doctors’ or patients’
as well as the Party best interests, but has been complimentary
membership at about more recent BMA policy, such as
an “open primary” their agreement with the Conservative’s
selection meeting, call to create an independent health board.
although Bracknell He has been critical of both nation
stopped short of devolution and the Barnett formula
having a full a constituency-wide paper as causing unfairness in the provision
ballot. Phillip is expected to increase the of healthcare in Britain.
majority, despite an anticipated backlash
This will be the second general election he
against the retiring Conservative
has fought having contested Blaenau Gwent
incumbent’s expense claim abuses.
in South Wales in 2005.
He studied at King’s College, London, Keble
College, Oxford and St Mary’s Hospital
Phillip believes patients need
Medical School at Imperial College in
to be involved in service design:
London. He now works as a part-time GP
throughout the Thames Valley area. He has “ Uofntil local people take ownership
their own individual health
highlighted the lack of MPs and candidates
with a science background and is expected and play an active role in determining
to be a champion of research and science the health services offered locally,
on the green benches. the health of the nation as a whole
will not improve.
”
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Increasing physical activity Royal Berkshire Hospital
• Reducing teenage pregnancy
• Fuel poverty and early age obesity Quality of Service: ✪✪✪
Financial Management: ✪ ✪
5Conservative
Daniel Poulter notional majority
PPC for Central Suffolk and Ipswich North of 7,856
A doctor, specialising record will ensure he is an effective advocate
in obstetrics, for the issues he cares about when he
gynaecology and reaches the green benches.
women’s health, During his career he has served on several
pipped 170 hopefuls to service improvement committees concerned
become the PPC for with care for older patients and promoting
retiree Michael Lord’s best practice in natural childbirth. He also
safe Conservative has experience of health issues from a local
seat. Selected in an government perspective as a local
meeting open to Councillor, being made Deputy Leader
everyone living in the constituency, he of Reigate & Banstead Council last year.
pledged to resign his post immediately In his spare time he has chosen to support
at the Princess Royal University Hospital, organisations dealing with homelessness,
in Bromley, and to find health care work in mental illness and Women’s Refuge.
Suffolk in the run-up to the General Election. His interest in all three issues is likely
Daniel is a veteran campaigner both for to continue into his parliamentary career.
the Conservatives and for local healthcare
services. He has good connections to the He states that:
Conservative health team, in particular
Anne Milton MP, having run her polling “ Ibureaucracy,
would fight to cut NHS
and instead direct
day operation for the 2005 general election.
more money into frontline patient
In addition to medicine, his legal care: such as maternity services,
background – he is a law graduate – and
successful recreational debating track
A&E and cancer treatment.
”
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Inequalities Ipswich hospital
• Child physical activity
• Teenage pregnancy
Quality of Service: ✪✪
Financial Management: ✪✪✪
6Conservative
George Freeman notional majority
PPC for Mid Norfolk of 7,793
George will bring and now a leading specialist experimental
twelve years medicine consultancy.
experience of His work in the last three years has almost
biomedical research exclusively involved working with the
and healthcare UK’s leading biomedical research hospitals
venture capitalism setting up new translational models of
to the green benches care to catalyse and draw on accelerated
and is likely to be biomedical discovery.
a leading prevention
champion, wanting
“
investment in health awareness and He sees the major challenges
”
responsibility earlier in life. healthcare providers face as:
After a brief spell as Parliamentary Officer
for the National Farmers Union and an
“ The ‘perfect storm’ of pressures, from
continuing technological innovation
early career in small business, George was creating ever more treatment
appointed Director of venture capital firm possibilities, exploding patient
Early Stage Ventures. As one of the demand accelerated by fundamental
founders of Merlin Biosciences in the epidemiological and demographic
1990s, he was closely involved in the drivers, the breakdown of the Big
formation and funding of a number of Pharma ‘one size fits all’ blockbuster
well known UK biotech start-ups including discovery model, and new
Ark Therapeutics, Vectura, Microscience, reimbursement regimes based on
Biovex, and Amedis Pharmaceuticals. improved performance of increasingly
In 2003, he set up 4D Biomedical, targeted therapies.
”
a bio-medical ventures advisory business,
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Inequalities across the county, especially Norfolk and Norwich
early deaths from heart disease and stroke University Hospital
Quality of Service: ✪✪
Financial Management: ✪ ✪ ✪
7Conservative
Sarah Wollaston notional majority
PPC for Totnes of 1,620
Selected via a high She has been a Fellow of the Higher
profile open primary, Education Academy in 2007 and has also
where all members of taught medical students from Bristol and
the electorate can the Peninsula Medical Schools for the last
vote, the Chagford ten years. She has worked as a GP trainer,
GP and relative has taught junior doctors at Exeter
newcomer to the postgraduate centre, and is an examiner for
political arena beat the Royal College of General Practitioners.
established local From 1996-2001 Dr Wollaston worked as
politicians to the Totnes candidacy. She is a forensic medical examiner for the police.
expected to continue the tradition of vocal
GPs in the House and has already
highlighted alcohol abuse as an issue of During her selection campaign,
she pledged:
“
concern having witnessed the devastating
effects of alcohol-related crime and “ Ihospitals
would fight to maintain community
”
binge-drinking as both a doctor
and a victim examiner.
and resist the slide towards
impersonal, large scale medical
She took a BSc in pathology in 1983, provision. I feel the health service is
a medical degree at Guy’s Hospital in under-represented in Parliament and
1986, and became a Member of the Royal hope to be in a position to influence
College of General Practitioners in 1992. future Conservative health policy.
”
In addition to her work as a GP,
Dr Wollaston has considerable expertise
in medical education and training.
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Smoking Totnes Country Hospital
• Obesity
• Misuse of alcohol Quality of Service: ✪✪
• STDs (especially in young people) Financial Management: ✪ ✪ ✪
8Conservative
Maggie Throup notional majority
PPC for Solihull of 124
A qualified She is a champion of decentralisation,
healthcare scientist
and Fellow of the
“
saying that patient-centred healthcare
is important – it doesn’t always have
Institute of to be delivered in the latest, high-tech
Biomedical Sciences,
Maggie is expected
environment.
”
to take Solihull from
the Lib Dems. Her priority for reform:
She should benefit “ More preventative medicine
– the well-woman and well-man
from favourable boundary changes and
clinics introduced by the last
a long track record as a local campaigner,
Conservative Government were
often on high profile health issues,
a step in the right direction.
including working to save local maternity
services and A & E. Also the cost of screening and
therefore early diagnosis and
She graduated from the University of
prevention must be much lower
Manchester with a Biology degree and
than the cost of treating diseases
she also has professional qualifications
at a later stage, plus the cost
in Biomedical Sciences and in Marketing.
to employers of sickness absence
Maggie began her career as a Medical
and the cost to the State in benefits.
Laboratory Scientist, working in the NHS,
and then moved into Medical Diagnostics More importantly, it must be good
Sales & Marketing for Nycomed (UK) Ltd,
before setting up her own business.
for the individual.
”
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Inequalities Solihull Hospital
• CVD deaths increasing
• Physical activity
• Reducing smoking Quality of Service: ✪✪
Financial Management: ✪✪✪✪
9Mark Coote 0.33%
PPC for Cheltenham swing required
Mark cites his He believes there should be a systematic
passion for dismantling of Department of Health
healthcare as targets, and devolution to Hospital Trusts
stemming from the
NHS saving his life
“
and PCTs of Far more responsibility
based on the audited needs of individual
from a rare illness communities and their unique healthcare
when he was in his
twenties. A former
needs and provisions.
”
teacher, he is now Having fought Hastings and Rye in two
Associate Director of Britain’s largest successive elections, he now has the chance
charity, Cancer Research UK. to take his hometown of Cheltenham from
the Lib Dems who hold it with a slim
Unsurprisingly, improving cancer
majority.
outcomes features high on his list of
priorities and, in particular, prevention
and early detection as well gaining He believes:
equitable access to treatments.
“ IfbeItocould change one thing it would
end the inequities of healthcare
“
He also wants to see a fair solution
to long-term healthcare for the elderly,
access within deprived communities
and the postcode lottery with
improved access to free dental care, and
stronger recruitment models for trainee
treatment availability.
”
doctors and dentists.
”
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Smoking Cheltenham General Hospital
• Obesity
• Breastfeeding Quality of Service: ✪✪✪
• Alcohol misuse
Financial Management: ✪ ✪ ✪
• Independence of vulnerable people
and reducing falls in over 75s
10Penny Mordaunt 0.38%
PPC for Portsmouth North swing required
Penny is a former Penny has worked in Westminster,
Director of Diabetes for William Hague as Leader of the
UK – the largest Opposition, and in Washington DC,
patient organisation as George W Bush’s head of foreign
in Europe. In this press, as well as for hanover as a public
role she helped the relations consultant.
charity develop
Improving care and services for older
the provision of
people is her priority, and she recently
services as well
helped bring together major charities
as raise awareness of the condition and
for older people with the Centre for
improve diagnosis and access to services.
Social Justice, to encourage greater
Penny is concerned with international policy focus on these issues within
development, an interest that dates back the party. She is also a hospital visitor,
to her time as an aid worker in the and during the London mayoral campaign
hospitals and orphanages of post- ran a campaign to highlight poor access
revolutionary Romania. More recently to GP services for commuters.
she participated in a UK Trade and Invest
health mission to India, and also devised
She wants to see:
and ran an occupational health programme
for UK companies with overseas staff, “ Apotential
true level playing field for all
providers, maintaining
delivering screening and educational
focus on continual training and
programmes on five continents.
development for staff, and a more
outward looking NHS.
”
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Obesity & Smoking Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
• Alcohol related harm (Queen Alexandra and St Marys)
• Oral health Quality of Service: ✪✪✪✪
• Teenage pregnancy Financial Management: ✪ ✪
• Substance misuse and inequalities
11Maria Hutchings 0.56%
PPC for Eastleigh swing required
Maria has spent After a brief 12 month flirtation with
the last 6 years the Labour party in 1983 she joined the
campaigning for Conservatives in 2005 after coming to
special needs prominence through her campaigning.
children and their She went on to serve as a member of
carers and takes a the Conservative Party Public Service
particular interest Improvement Policy Group and
in autism, having the Commission on Special Needs.
an autistic son.
Although she only
needs a tiny swing to win, she has a She thinks patient organisations will:
considerable challenge on her hands.
“ Hinave their work cut out for them
She is standing against the well-resourced
and experienced campaigner Liberal
an increasingly crowded space.
”
Democrat Chris Huhne MP. Huhne has and thinks that the current trend
been critical of her wish to increase access for mergers of these organisations will:
to single vaccines for MMR for parents who
are concerned about the joint vaccination. “ Bmore
e balanced by the emergence of
splinter groups due to the need
A former radio broadcaster, Maria makes
regular media appearances often describing for increased and more detailed,
“ ”
the immense struggle of coping with specific knowledge.
”
a child with a disability and citing her
“
personal experience of fighting the
“
”
system as her motivation in politics.
A popular and well-known figure, she
Her priorities would be joining up
the dots between health and education
provision and tackling single vaccine
famously ambushed Tony Blair in February
2005 live on television, over the proposed ”
availability.
closure of the special school attended by her son.
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Mortality rates Winchester and Eastleigh
• Child obesity Healthcare Trust
• Teenage pregnancy Quality of Service: ✪✪✪
• Alcohol rated harm Financial Management: ✪ ✪
12Margot James 1.46%
PPC for Stourbridge swing required
A vice-chairman of On healthcare funding, Margot opposes
the Party since 2005, any idea of co-payment and says that
and named by The
Pink Paper as the
“ As soon as you move to a two-tier system
that guarantees a ‘minimum’ and facilitates
tenth most powerful access to better treatment and services
gay, lesbian and to those who can afford co-payment or
bisexual politician insurance, then more and more treatment
in the UK, Margot will start to fall in to the latter category
is one to watch and the ‘minimum’ will become worse
should she turn
the suburban West Midlands seat
over time.
”
of Stourbridge blue in 2010.
She wants to:
She has experience of working in healthcare
as a volunteer, a politician and professional, “ Restore the values of care, and time
with patients so this becomes the
as well as being a carer for her own family.
After working in the family firm, Margot cornerstone of nursing. I would like
co-founded Shire Health, a healthcare PR for nurses to take greater pride
and medical education business which she in their work and have the power to
sold to Ogilvy & Mather in 2004, joining the aspire to, and reach, a much higher
senior management team. standard of ward discipline and
She also brings expertise as a former mental patient care than is reportedly
health manager, as a board member of
Parkside NHS Trust, and as an ‘Older
the case at the moment.
”
People’s Champion’ and member of the
Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee
while a councillor for the London Borough
of Kensington and Chelsea.
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Alcohol Dudley Hospital NHS Trust
• Obesity
Quality of Service: ✪
Financial Management: ✪✪✪✪
13Paul Maynard 4.24%
PPC for Blackpool North and Cleveleys swing required
In 1999, Paul served
as a health adviser
“theThe more complex healthcare becomes,
harder it seems to be to preserve a
in the Conservative patient’s individuality. Everything I hear
Research from local groups is about how difficult
Department and people find it to access the help appropriate
was later appointed to them – if you don’t fit neatly into
an adviser to Dr
Liam Fox MP during
the tick-boxes, you struggle.
”
Noting that his constituency has the
his role as Shadow
highest proportion of residents in the
Health Secretary. After he left his role
country with a long-term medical
within the Conservative Party in 2002,
condition, improvements in this sphere
Paul took a year’s sabbatical at the think
are important to him and he thinks mental
tank Reform.
and public health are much neglected
He believes the ethical dimensions of policy sectors.
healthcare provision will become more
important as the costs of healthcare
He has two priorities:
escalate and our ability to meet those
costs fails to keep up. “ Reform to the financing of end-of-life
provision, and a review the 1969
Paul sees the biggest challenge, for those Medicines Act in its totality to reflect
who provide care, is to fit the care to the current medical reality (adults with,
patient and not the patient to the care. for example, cystic fibrosis should
be allowed free prescriptions).
”
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Alcohol misuse Blackpool Hospital
• Smoking
• Obesity Quality of Service: ✪✪✪
• Teenage pregnancy Financial Management: ✪ ✪
14Helen Whately 9.05%
PPC for Kingston and Surbiton swing required
Helen is the daughter In addition to the funding challenges
of two doctors and faced by the NHS, she is concerned about
currently works as a a lack of clarity around the status of
healthcare specialist patient organisations within the service,
for a management as well as the extent to which the NHS is
consultancy. She
is a passionate “
locally accountable: I’m unconvinced
by the structures intended to bring
campaigner for
the NHS, saying it
local democracy to bear on the NHS.
She also takes a close interest in
”
“
should be held up as ‘healthcare systems’ and in the nursing
”
an example to aspire to around the world.
“
profession which has been in crisis
She has previously worked for the
Conservatives’ Culture Media & Sport team,
”
for a decade now. Her priorities would
be End of Life Care and Mental Health.
at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and at AOL,
Since winning this seat with a wafer thin
where she launched the UK’s first legal
majority in 1997, Lib Dem MP Ed Davey
internet film service.
has built up a comfortable lead here.
However the Conservatives are working
Helen wants to: hard to ‘lovebomb’ Lib Dem voters and
“
See the NHS continue to move from
acute to primary and community care,
are ambitious about eroding Mr Davey’s
majority with the aim of taking the seat
and I believe that more transparency back, either at this election, or the next.
in performance will help drive up
standards, as has happened with
hospital cleanliness.
”
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Improving life expectancy and tackling Kingston Hospital
inequalities.
• Improving quality and responsiveness
of services especially for people with long Quality of Service: ✪✪
term conditions, disabilities and mental Financial Management: ✪✪✪
health issues
15Rowena Holland 9.6%
PPC for Nottingham South swing required
Nottingham South Rowena would like to see reform of NICE
is an ambitious target as a priority, but she also highlights the
seat that could need for pharmaceutical companies to
turn blue if the provide adequate evidence in terms of
Conservatives’ clinical trials, health economic data and
best showings in the quality of life patient outcomes in a format
opinion polls holds that can be quickly evaluated.
up through to the
election. Rowena’s
campaign is aided by her local credentials “ The Scottish Medicines Consortium
reviews all new drugs and I think that
and the sitting Labour MP Alan Simpson’s
retirement. NICE should do likewise, and give
physicians a review of all new drugs
If elected, Rowena Holland would bring to that are released for use in the UK.
Parliament 15 years in the pharmaceutical The current process is extremely slow
sector. She has a doctorate in Biochemistry and reviews only a small proportion
and has worked for 3M Healthcare, Merck of new medicines, leaving physicians
Sharp & Dohme and ALK-Abellio. Allergy and PCTs to make their own reviews
is her current area of professional interest which ultimately causes ‘postcode
and she is a long standing supporter of the prescribing’ issues…a very unfair
Anaphylaxis campaign. system that needs to be addressed.
”
Local PCT priorities Local hospital performance rating
• Premature deaths (CVD, stroke, smoking, Nottingham City Hospital
road accidents)
• Reducing childhood obesity and teenage Quality of Service: ✪✪
pregnancy and improving drug and
Financial Management: ✪ ✪ ✪
alcohol treatment
16Julia Manning
To be selected
Julia Manning will be She was a founder member of the British
a key player in future Association of Behavioural Optometrists,
Conservative health visiting lecturer at City University, visiting
policy development, clinician at the Royal Free Hospital,
whether she becomes London, and a Director of the Institute
an MP or not. One of Optometry. Her clinical interests
of the four finalists include diabetes and multiple sclerosis and
in the recent open she has campaigned for improved provision
primary in Gosport, for people with visual impairment.
she has made good progress through the
She has recently called for an end to
selection process and commentators have
the duplication of management roles
had her as a favourite to get a seat for the
in the NHS, and for greater streamlining
forthcoming General Election.
of services as a means to finding savings
Julia, an optometrist by trade, set up her in the health budget.
own specialist practice for the housebound.
She is a founder and Director of
2020health.org a web-based, centre-right “And as a former NHS clinician I think
the single most depressing fact is the
Think Tank for health and social care
which focuses on policy development by waste in the NHS of a huge number
front line professionals. Earlier this year of incredibly talented, imaginative,
they produced a paper on Practiced Based innovative medics and ancillary staff.
Commissioning, and current research work Their expertise and experience is a
includes valuing work as a public health significant pool of wisdom which is
outcome and value based pricing for frequently ignored or dismissed.
”
pharmaceuticals and medical technology.
17Departures:
voluntary and involuntary
There are well over 100 MPs standing Mental health campaigner, former
down at the next election, with an laboratory technician and Health Select
expectation that many more will follow Committee member John Austin, Chair
before the election campaign begins. of the HIV / AIDS All Party Group Neil
Amongst those that are standing down Gerrard, the Conservative Government’s
are three consecutive Health Secretaries last Science minister Ian Taylor, and this
(1999-2006): Alan Milburn, Patricia Government’s first one, John Battle, will
Hewitt and John Reid, together with their all leave the House.
former Cabinet colleague and long serving
Other health related departures include:
health minister John Hutton.
sexual and reproductive health campaigner
The energetic Dr Howard Stoate, mainstay Chris McCafferty in the Pennine marginal
of a myriad of health related All Party of Calder Valley; two former Conservative
Groups and a long standing Health Select ministers, Michael Jack and Tim Boswell,
Committee member, has chosen not fight who have been campaigners on health and
his ultra-marginal Dartford seat, dropping on disability from both front and
constituency surgeries in favour of his backbenches. The redoubtable former
doctor’s surgery. His Co-Chair on the Shadow Secretary of State for Health
All Party Group on Obesity and Health during the Hague era, Ann Widdecombe,
Select Committee colleague, former also moves on, as does former Opposition
immunologist Dr Doug Naysmith, will not Chief Whip David Maclean, who spoke
be fighting marginal Bristol North West from personal experience about Multiple
next time around either. Sclerosis. Angela Browning, who brought
understanding of the impact of Asperger’s
Long-time mainstays of the Science
syndrome on those with the condition
& Technology Select Committee, former
and their families, is also standing down.
medical researcher Dr Des Turner and
organic chemist Dr Brian Iddon will also
depart next year. The Select Committee
for Innovation Universities Science and
Skills, that lost Dr Ian Gibson earlier this
year, will also lose committee Chairman
Phil Willis.
18In addition to MPs that will depart the A number of longstanding Health Select
Commons of their own accord, there are Committee members face tough elections,
others at risk of involuntary retirement at including former UNISON organiser
the hands of the electorate. The ministerial Charlotte Atkins in Staffordshire
team at the Department of Health looks Moorlands where boundary changes mean
the most vulnerable in Whitehall with it is already considered a Conservative
at least three likely to forego both their seat. Former pharmacist and longtime
ministerial salaries and their seats Liberal Democrat spokesperson on health
in Parliament unless there is a major and older people Sandra Gidley in ultra
turnaround in Labour’s fortunes. marginal Romsey & Southampton North
is also a top target for the Conservatives,
Prime amongst them is ‘Expensesgate’
and should rheumatologist and
hit social services minister Phil Hope who
septuagenarian Independent MP
is nursing a wafer-thin majority in Corby.
Dr Richard Taylor decide to stand again
His colleague Ann Keen’s seat of Brentford
in Wyre Forest he too will face a strong
& Isleworth also looks hard to hold, and
challenge from the Conservatives.
Minister of State Gillian Merron will be
lucky to keep hold of Lincoln if current
polls are anything to go by. Fellow minister
Mike O’Brien in Warwickshire North is not
out of the woods either.
Liberal Democrat MPs may prove harder
to unseat than Labour ones. However
amongst those vulnerable to a resurgent
Conservative Party include former
frontbench spokesman and campaigner
on health, older people and disability
Paul Burstow in Sutton & Cheam; and
Chair of the All Party Group on Diabetes
Adrian Sanders.
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