Jonathan Gullis is the Conservative MP for Stoke-on Trent North, having first been elected to Parliament in 2019, gaining the seat from Labour with a majority of 6,286.
The constituency of Stoke on Trent North contains the towns of Tunstall and Burslem, the later being the town in which both popstar Robbie Williams, and darts supremo, Phil the Power Taylor, grew up. This seat had previously been held by the Labour Party ever since the Second World War, but with 72.1% of the population supporting Brexit in the 2016 EU referendum, it fell to the Conservatives in 2019.
Jonathan Gullis MP was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Education by Liz Truss in September 2022. He was not reappointed to the government when Rishi Suank became prime minister in October 2022.
Mr Gullis was previously a PPS at the Northern Ireland Office but resigned in July 2022 in protest at Boris Johnson continuing to remain as prime minister.
Born in 1990, Jonathan Gullis was educated at Oxford Brookes University. He worked as a school teacher and head of year at a Birmingham secondary school, before being elected to Parliament. He is a member of the NASUWT trade union, and secretary of the Conservative Education Society.
A supporter of Brexit in the 2016 EU referendum, Gullis is a member of the European Research Group of Conservative MPs.
He is also a founding member of the New Conservatives grouping of right-wing, socially conservative MPs.
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An outspoken MP, Gullis suggested in December 2023 that Rishi Sunak should elevate Nigel Farage, the former UKIP leader, to the House of Lords.
Gullis told GB News that the former Brexit Party leader would be an “asset across the Blue and the Red Wall”.
“I’d love to see it, personally”, Gullis said when the prospect of Farage joining the Conservative Party was raised.
He added: “I think Nigel has a lot to offer”.
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In June 2020, Gullis introduced a 10 Minute Rule Bill aiming to introduce custodial sentences of up to 14 years for those who desecrate war memorials.
After receiving abuse online, Gullis decided to come off Twitter in 2020. He has since rejoined.
In 2021, he came to public prominence after he was not called to speak initially during a virtual debate in Parliament because he was wearing a jumper, rather than a jacket at the time.
He has a wide range of political interests, and is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Apprenticeships, Boxing, Child and Youth Crime, Coalfield Communities, Education, the Film Industry, Rail, School Exclusions, School Food, and the West Midlands.
Representing a pottery constituency, Gullis is the Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Ceramics.
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Email – jonathan.gullis.mp@parliament.uk
Website – www.jonathangullis.com
