British politician
Felicia Jane "Flick" Beatrix Drummond
[3]
(
nee
Shepherd
; born 16 June 1962) is a British
Conservative Party
politician. She has been the
Member of Parliament
(MP) for
Meon Valley
since
2019
, having previously represented
Portsmouth South
from
2015
to
2017
.
Early life
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Drummond was born on 16 June 1962 in
Aden
, then part of the
Aden Protectorate
. She is the daughter of diplomat George Anthony Shepherd (1931-1996), who had served in the
4th Royal Tank Regiment
,
Trucial Oman Scouts
, and
2nd Royal Tank Regiment
,
[4]
and Sarah Eirlys, nee Adamson.
[5]
She was privately educated at
Roedean School
, before studying at both
Hull University
and
Southampton University
. Drummond is also a graduate of the
Royal College of Defence Studies
and has completed two terms on the
Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme
Political career
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Drummond sat on
Winchester City Council
from 1996 to 2000, before being expelled from the council after failing to attend a meeting for six months.
[6]
During this time, she moved to the
United States
.
Drummond returned to the UK in 2004, and was selected to stand for Parliament in
Southampton Itchen
in the
2005 general election
, where she won 26.8% of the vote and came second behind the incumbent
Labour
MP
John Denham
.
[7]
At the
2010 general election
, Drummond stood for Parliament in
Portsmouth South
, where she won 33.3% of the vote and came second behind the incumbent
Liberal Democrat
MP
Mike Hancock
.
[8]
[9]
At the
2015 general election
, Drummond contested Portsmouth South again, and was elected to Parliament, winning 34.8% of the vote and a majority of 5,241 over the Liberal Democrats'
Gerald Vernon-Jackson
.
[10]
From 2015 to 2017, Drummond was a member of the
Women and Equalities Committee
.
Drummond campaigned to remain in the European Union in the 2016 Referendum.
[11]
She stated in 2016 that the
referendum result
diminished and would lessen Britain's influence in Europe.
[12]
At the
2017 general election
, Drummond was defeated in Portsmouth South by Labour's
Stephen Morgan
, coming second with 37.6% of the vote.
[13]
In October 2018, Drummond was elected Voluntary Director of the Conservative Policy Forum by the
National Conservative Convention
.
In November 2019, Drummond was selected as the
prospective parliamentary candidate
for the
safe Conservative seat
of
Meon Valley
to replace the retiring incumbent
George Hollingbery
. At the
2019 general election
, she was elected as MP for Meon Valley with 64.3% of the vote and a majority of 23,555.
[14]
As a consequence she stood down as the Conservative candidate for
Hampshire
at the
2020 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections
.
[15]
Between February and September 2020 Drummond served as
Parliamentary Private Secretary
to
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
as
Secretary of State for International Development
[16]
before becoming PPS to
Therese Coffey
at the
Department for Work and Pensions
.
[17]
In October 2022, Drummond was appointed to the Commons
Public Accounts Committee
and the
Education Select Committee
.
Under the
2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies
, her Meon Valley constituency is set to be dissolved and its territory divided between several new or revised constituencies. On 5 April, she faced a vote of local party members to become the candidate for the new seat of
Fareham and Waterlooville
, which takes in the majority of the current Meon Valley constituency; her opponent was Fareham MP and then
Home Secretary
Suella Braverman
.
[18]
Braverman won the vote by 77 votes to 54.
[19]
In July 2023, Drummond was selected to contest the
next general election
as the Conservative candidate for the neighbouring
Winchester constituency
, which will have its boundaries changed to include slightly less than a quarter of Meon Valley.
[20]
[21]
Personal life
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In 1987, she married Heneage Drummond, a descendant of the
Jacobite
soldier
William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan
, of the family of the
Earls of Perth
. They have four children and three grandchildren.
[22]
Before entering politics, Drummond was a lay inspector for
Ofsted
. She has also served as Chair of Governors at Milton Park Primary School and a trustee of Salterns Academy Trust in Portsmouth.
Publications
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- 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)
- The Future of Education
, One Nation Conservatives (2020)
References
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- ^
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3107
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Dale, Iain; Smith, Jacqui (2019).
The Honourable Ladies : Volume II: Profiles of Women MPs 1997-2019
. La Vergne: Biteback Publishing.
ISBN
9781785904479
.
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"No. 61230"
.
The London Gazette
. 18 May 2015. pp. 9124?9125.
- ^
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3107
- ^
Who was Who, St Martin's Press, 1996, p. 527
- ^
"Gearing up for a good, clean fight"
.
Daily Echo
. 19 April 2000
. Retrieved
12 October
2023
.
- ^
"Election Data 2005"
.
Electoral Calculus
. Archived from
the original
on 15 October 2011
. Retrieved
18 October
2015
.
- ^
"Election Data 2010"
.
Electoral Calculus
. Archived from
the original
on 26 July 2013
. Retrieved
17 October
2015
.
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"Politics"
.
the Guardian
.
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"Portsmouth South parliamentary constituency - Election 2019 - BBC News"
. Retrieved
8 February
2024
.
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Goodenough, Tom (16 February 2016).
"Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence?"
.
The Spectator
. Archived from
the original
on 22 October 2016
. Retrieved
11 October
2016
.
- ^
Elgot, Jessica; Mason, Rowena (2 October 2016).
"Don't trust Brexit 'three blind mice', says Tory former minister"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
2 October
2016
.
- ^
"Portsmouth South parliamentary constituency - Election 2019"
.
BBC News
. Retrieved
8 February
2024
.
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"Meon Valley parliamentary constituency"
.
BBC News
.
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"New MP Flick Drummond stands down as Tory PCC candidate"
.
Hampshire Chronicle
. 3 January 2020
. Retrieved
20 February
2020
.
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"Flick appointed PPS"
. Conservative and Unionist Party. 25 February 2020
. Retrieved
24 December
2021
.
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"Flick joins Department for Work and Pensions"
. Conservative and Unionist Party. 22 February 2023
. Retrieved
22 February
2023
.
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Atkinson, William (28 February 2023).
"Braverman, Drummond, and Fareham. The Home Secretary is not the local champion that some party members are looking for"
.
Conservative Home
. Retrieved
19 March
2023
.
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James, Liam (5 April 2023).
"Suella Braverman wins 'battle of Waterlooville' in Tory contest for new seat 6 April 2023"
.
Independent
. Retrieved
6 April
2023
.
- ^
"Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?"
.
House of Commons Library
. Retrieved
14 November
2023
.
- ^
"Conservatives choose candidate for the next General Election"
.
Hampshire Chronicle
. 21 July 2023
. Retrieved
23 July
2023
.
- ^
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3107
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