Antony Higginbotham
MP
Member of Parliament
for Burnley
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded byJulie Cooper
Majority1,352 (3.5%)
Personal details
Born (1989-12-16) 16 December 1989
Haslingden, Rossendale, England[1]
Political partyConservative
EducationHaslingden High School
Alma materUniversity of Hull
City Law School
Websitewww.antonyhig.co.uk

Antony Higginbotham (born 16 December 1989)[2] is a British Conservative politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Burnley in the 2019 general election.[3]

Early life

Higginbotham was born in Haslingden, Rossendale, Lancashire. He attended Haslingden High School and went on to study British Politics at Hull University, becoming the first in his family to attend university.[4]

After graduating, he briefly worked for the NHS. He then went on to complete a Graduate Diploma in Law at City Law School.[5] Before becoming an MP, he worked for a trade organisation representing international banks.[6] He then worked as a banker, first for a Japanese bank then as a banker at NatWest.[7][8]

Political career

While living in London, he unsuccessfully contested the Peninsula ward in the 2018 Greenwich London Borough Council election.[9]

He contested the Burnley seat for the Conservative Party in the 2019 general election, campaigning on a pro-Brexit platform in an area that voted 66.6% in favour of leave in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. He won the seat from incumbent Julie Cooper (9.7% swing, 3.4% majority), becoming the first Conservative MP for the constituency since Gerald Arbuthnot in 1910.[10][11]

Higginbotham and the Burnley Council submitted a bid in June 2021 for £20m to improve constituency life through three construction projects.[12]

He is a member of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, which includes 12 months of courses on military affairs to help improve parliamentary knowledge on the military.[13]

Higginbotham endorsed Liz Truss during the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, citing her views on tax, education and 'levelling up'.[14]

Personal life

Higginbotham is openly gay and one of 20 LGBT+ Conservative MPs.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Facebook". www.facebook.com.
  2. ↑ Brunskill, Ian (19 March 2020). The Times guide to the House of Commons 2019 : the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574.
  3. ↑ "Burnley parliamentary constituency - Election 2019" – via www.bbc.com.
  4. ↑ "About Antony Higginbotham". Antony Higginbotham MP. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "About Antony Higginbotham". Antony Higginbotham MP. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "About Antony Higginbotham". Antony Higginbotham MP. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  7. ↑ "About Antony Higginbotham". Antony Higginbotham MP. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  8. ↑ Bond, Daniel (16 December 2019). "Class of 2019: Meet the new MPs". Politics Home. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  9. ↑ Dominic Moffitt (7 December 2019). "All the Conservative Party General Election candidates standing in Lancashire". Lancs Live. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  10. ↑ Sophie-May Clarke (13 December 2019). "Burnley turns blue after more than a century". Lancashire Telegraph. Newsquest Media Group. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  11. ↑ Bill Jacobs (20 November 2019). "Burnley: Who can seize Labour's divided former fortress". Lancashire Telegraph. Newsquest Media Group. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  12. ↑ Jacobs, Bill (11 June 2021). "Burnley town centre £20million upgrade bid". Archived from the original on 11 June 2021.
  13. ↑ "East Lancs MP Antony Higginbotham falls in for army training to learn more about the UK military and what they do as part of special armed forces Parliamentary scheme". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  14. ↑ Jacobs, Bill (2 August 2022). "East Lancs MPs back Liz Truss as next PM". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  15. ↑ "The new UK Parliament reportedly has the highest number of LGBTQ MPs in the world". Attitude.co.uk. 16 December 2019. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
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