Felicia Jane "Flick" Beatrix Drummond (born 16 June 1962) is a British
Conservative Party
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politician. She has been the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Meon Valley since
2019
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, having previously represented
Portsmouth South
Portsmouth South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Stephen Morgan of the Labour Party. Morgan is the first Labour MP to represent the seat.
Boundaries
1918–1950: The County Borough of ...
from
2015
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to
2017
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.
Political career
Drummond sat on
Winchester City Council
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The district covers the ancient settlement of the city of Winchester itself, but also covers a large area of central Hampshire including Bish ...
from 1996 to 2000, before leaving to accompany her husband to work in the
United States
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. Having returned in 2004, Drummond was selected to stand for Parliament in
Southampton Itchen
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in
2005
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, coming second to
Labour's John Denham John Denham may refer to:
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. In the 2015 general election, she succeeded the incumbent,
Mike Hancock as Member of Parliament in Portsmouth South, having come second to him in the
2010 general election.
Drummond stood on a platform opposed to
Brexit
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.
She stated in 2016 that the
referendum result diminished and would lessen Britain's influence in Europe.
She was a member of the
Women and Equalities Select Committee: with
Jess Phillips
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, she set up and chaired the Women and Work
APPG
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. She also established the Cybersecurity APPG.
Drummond was defeated in a further marginal result at the
2017 general election, one of thirty net gains by the opposing
Labour Party.
In November 2019, Drummond was selected as the
prospective parliamentary candidate for the
safe Conservative seat of
Meon Valley, in
Eastern Hampshire. She returned to Parliament at the
December 2019 general election after the incumbent
George Hollingbery
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retired. She was then stood down as the Conservative candidate to become the
Hampshire
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Police and crime commissioner in the
2020 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections.
She was in 2020 the
Parliamentary Private Secretary
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to
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
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as
Secretary of State for International Development
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The offi ...
.
Since January 2021, Drummond has served as one of two Vice-Chairwomen of the
Conservative European Forum, which replaced the Conservative Group for Europe. The group calls for close, strategic relationships with Europe, advocating for a close relationship with European institutions.
She is particularly interested in education policy and foreign affairs, in particular the Middle East.
Personal life
Drummond is married with four children and she has been a school governor at Milton Park Primary School in Portsmouth.
Publications
*''No Blame Game - The Future for Children's Social Workers'' for the Conservative Party Commission on Social Workers (October 2007)
*''Women Returners'', Annual report for Women and Work APPG (2016)
*''Brexit and Beyond'' edited by
George Freeman MP – chapter on ''Coastal Communities'' (2019)
References
External links
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1962 births
Living people
21st-century British women politicians
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
People from Aden
People educated at Roedean School, East Sussex
Politicians from Portsmouth
Politicians from Winchester
UK MPs 2015–2017
UK MPs 2019–present
21st-century English women
21st-century English people