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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies

  • Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson's earliest recorded ambition was to be "world king". He was born on the 19th of June 1964 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He is one of only two British prime ministers to have been an American citizen. Supporters praise…
  • David CameronDavid Cameron's last words in the Commons were "I was the future once." He said them in July 2016.
  • Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill escaped a prisoner-of-war camp in Pretoria by hiding on freight trains. It made him famous.
  • Neville ChamberlainNeville Chamberlain waved a single sheet of paper at a crowd after signing away part of Czechoslovakia.
  • Rishi SunakRishi Sunak once stood in the House of Commons and said that on the government benches, life comes at you fast. He had earned the right to say it. Within a few years he had gone from a name most voters did not know to the most powerful…
  • Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher kept a portrait of her chemistry tutor on the wall at 10 Downing Street.
  • Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli bought a controlling stake in the Suez Canal within days in 1875.
  • Robert StephensonRobert Stephenson twice turned down a knighthood. The railway engineer was offered it by Queen Victoria in 1849.
  • Austen ChamberlainAusten Chamberlain won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 but never became prime minister. His half-brother Neville did.
  • Oliver Locker-LampsonIn 1933, British MP Oliver Locker-Lampson sheltered Albert Einstein from death threats.
  • Oswald MosleyOswald Mosley stood before a reported 30,000 people at the Earls Court Exhibition Hall in London on the 16th of July 1939. The event was called the "Britain First" rally. It remains the biggest indoor political rally in British history.…
  • Randolph ChurchillRandolph Churchill, the only son of Winston Churchill, announced in a 1932 newspaper article that he planned to "make an immense fortune and become Prime Minister". He was twenty-one years old. He achieved neither ambition. Over the…
  • Kemi BadenochKemi Badenoch was born on the 2nd of January 1980 in St Teresa's Maternity Hospital in Wimbledon, south London. Her mother, Feyi Adubifa, had travelled from Nigeria for medical treatment. She returned home shortly after the birth. The…
  • Joseph ChamberlainAs mayor of Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain forcibly bought the city's two gas companies.

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