Felicia Jane "Flick" Beatrix Drummond (born 16 June 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician. She has been the

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(MP) for Meon Valley since

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, having previously represented

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from

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Political career

Drummond sat on

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from 1996 to 2000, before leaving to accompany her husband to work in the

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. Having returned in 2004, Drummond was selected to stand for Parliament in

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, coming second to Labour's

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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

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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

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: with

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, she set up and chaired the Women and Work

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. She also established the Cybersecurity APPG. Drummond was defeated in a further marginal result at the

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, 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

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retired. She was then stood down as the Conservative candidate to become the

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Police and crime commissioner in the

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. She was in 2020 the

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. 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)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Drummond, Flick 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