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by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Guy_Opperman" title="Guy Opperman">Guy Opperman</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Under-Secretary_of_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State">Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Culture,_Media_and_Sport" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Culture, Media and Sport">for Tourism and Heritage</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />13 May 2010 – 4 September 2012</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Hodge" title="Margaret Hodge">Margaret Hodge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Office abolished</i></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> <br /> for <a href="/wiki/Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Weston-super-Mare (UK Parliament constituency)">Weston-super-Mare</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />5 May 2005 – 30 May 2024</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Cotter" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Cotter">Brian Cotter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dan_Aldridge" title="Dan Aldridge">Dan Aldridge</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1964-06-22</span>) </span>22 June 1964<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 60)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Sudbury,_Suffolk" title="Sudbury, Suffolk">Sudbury, Suffolk</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Dido_Harding" title="Dido Harding">Dido Harding, Baroness Harding</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px">​</div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;">​</div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1995)<wbr />​</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence(s)</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Winscombe,_Somerset" class="mw-redirect" title="Winscombe, Somerset">Winscombe, Somerset</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Downing_College,_Cambridge" title="Downing College, Cambridge">Downing College, Cambridge</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Business_School" title="Columbia Business School">Columbia Business School</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.johnpenrose.org/">www.johnpenrose.org</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John David Penrose</b> (born 22 June 1964) is a British politician who served as <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) for <a href="/wiki/Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Weston-super-Mare (UK Parliament constituency)">Weston-super-Mare</a> from 2005 until 2024. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a>, he was the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion at the <a href="/wiki/Home_Office" title="Home Office">Home Office</a> from 2017 until 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He resigned on 6 June 2022 as the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion due to the <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a> <a href="/wiki/Partygate" title="Partygate">Partygate</a> scandal.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Penrose previously served as <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Under-Secretary_of_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State">Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Department_for_Culture,_Media_and_Sport" title="Department for Culture, Media and Sport">Department for Culture, Media and Sport</a> from 2010 to 2012 and <a href="/wiki/Lord_Commissioner_of_the_Treasury" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Commissioner of the Treasury">Lord Commissioner of the Treasury</a> from 2014 to 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Office" title="Northern Ireland Office">Minister of State for Northern Ireland</a> from 2018 to 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Penrose&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>John Penrose was born in <a href="/wiki/Sudbury,_Suffolk" title="Sudbury, Suffolk">Sudbury, Suffolk</a>, on 22 June 1964. He was privately educated at <a href="/wiki/Ipswich_School" title="Ipswich School">Ipswich School</a> and studied at <a href="/wiki/Downing_College,_Cambridge" title="Downing College, Cambridge">Downing College, Cambridge</a>, receiving a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a> in law in 1986. He received an <a href="/wiki/MBA" class="mw-redirect" title="MBA">MBA</a> from <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Business_School" title="Columbia Business School">Columbia Business School</a>, New York in 1991. </p><p>He was a bank trading floor <a href="/wiki/Financial_risk_management" title="Financial risk management">risk manager</a> at <a href="/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase" title="JPMorgan Chase">JPMorgan Chase</a> from 1986 to 1990, then a <a href="/wiki/Management_consultant" class="mw-redirect" title="Management consultant">management consultant</a> at <a href="/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company" title="McKinsey & Company">McKinsey & Company</a> from 1992 to 1994. </p><p>He was commercial director of the Academic Books Division at Thomson Publishing in <a href="/wiki/Andover,_Hampshire" title="Andover, Hampshire">Andover</a> from 1995 to 1996, then managing director of schools book publishing at <a href="/wiki/Longman" title="Longman">Longman</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pearson_plc" title="Pearson plc">Pearson plc</a>), publishing school textbooks for the UK and parts of Africa. He was chairman of Logotron Ltd in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a> (also owned by Pearson). In 1998, he was in charge of research at the <a href="/wiki/Bow_Group" title="Bow Group">Bow Group</a> – a UK-based independent think tank, promoting conservative opinion internationally. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parliamentary_career">Parliamentary career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Penrose&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Parliamentary career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Penrose stood as the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> candidate in <a href="/wiki/Ealing_Southall" class="mw-redirect" title="Ealing Southall">Ealing Southall</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997 general election</a>, coming second with 20.8% of the vote behind the incumbent <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> MP <a href="/wiki/Piara_Khabra" title="Piara Khabra">Piara Khabra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus1997_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus1997-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001 general election</a>, Penrose stood in <a href="/wiki/Weston-super-Mare_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Weston-super-Mare (UK Parliament constituency)">Weston-super-Mare</a>, coming second with 38.7% of the vote behind the incumbent <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrat</a> MP <a href="/wiki/Brian_Cotter" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Cotter">Brian Cotter</a>. He was elected at the <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 general election</a> as MP for Weston-super-Mare, winning with 40.3% of the vote and a majority of 2,079.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged April 2024">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup> </p><p>Penrose served on the <a href="/wiki/Work_and_Pensions_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Work and Pensions Committee">Work and Pensions Committee</a> from July 2005 to January 2009, and in 2006 was appointed joint chairman of the <a href="/wiki/All-Party_Parliamentary_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="All-Party Parliamentary Group">All-Party Parliamentary Group</a> (APPG) on Further Education and Lifelong Learning. In 2006 he was also appointed <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Private_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Private Secretary">Parliamentary Private Secretary</a> to <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Letwin" title="Oliver Letwin">Oliver Letwin</a> MP and in 2009 was promoted to Shadow Minister for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a>, Penrose was re-elected as MP for Weston-super-Mare with an increased vote share of 44.3% and an increased majority of 2,691.<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus2010_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus2010-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the formation of the <a href="/wiki/Cameron%E2%80%93Clegg_coalition" title="Cameron–Clegg coalition">coalition government</a>, Penrose served as the <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Tourism_and_Heritage" title="Minister for Tourism and Heritage">Minister for Tourism and Heritage</a> from 2010 to 2012 during which he wrote and implemented the government's tourism strategy,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> removed licences on live entertainment<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> sold <a href="/wiki/The_Tote" title="The Tote">The Tote</a> bookmaker<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and protected the Lloyd's of London building with a 'Grade 1' listing.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Penrose returned to the backbenches in 2012. He wrote a paper (We Deserve Better) on how to give people a better deal on their utilities.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Less than a year later <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a> brought Penrose back to a government role with a new position as assistant whip at the <a href="/wiki/HM_Treasury" title="HM Treasury">Treasury</a>, before he was promoted in February 2014 as one of the <a href="/wiki/Lords_Commissioners_of_the_Treasury" title="Lords Commissioners of the Treasury">Lords Commissioners of the Treasury</a> (whip). In May 2015 he became <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Secretary_for_the_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Secretary for the Constitution">Parliamentary Secretary for the Constitution</a>, a role he held until July 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Penrose was again re-elected at the <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015 general election</a> with an increased vote share of 48% and an increased majority of 15,609.<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was opposed to Brexit prior to the <a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" title="2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum">2016 referendum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-thespectatorwhichtorympsbackbrexit_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thespectatorwhichtorympsbackbrexit-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the result was announced, Penrose supported the official position of his party as an advocate of leaving the European Union.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the snap <a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017 general election</a>, Penrose was again re-elected, with an increased vote share of 53.1% and a decreased majority of 11,544.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was appointed the Prime Minister's Anti-Corruption Champion in December 2017, and then reappointed in July 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-gov.uk-acc_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gov.uk-acc-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Penrose was a Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office from November 2018 to July 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-gov.uk-acc_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gov.uk-acc-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Penrose came under criticism for voting to change lobbying rules in order to defend his Conservative colleague <a href="/wiki/Owen_Paterson_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Owen Paterson controversy">Owen Paterson</a>, who had been found to have "repeatedly used his privileged position to benefit two companies for whom he was a paid consultant". One of the companies that Paterson was paid to lobby for, <a href="/wiki/Randox" title="Randox">Randox</a>, was awarded contracts from the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Department of Health and Social Care">Department of Health and Social Care</a> during the pandemic. Penrose defended the government's issuing of such contracts to Conservative donors, associates and inexperienced companies.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The High Court also ruled that the-then Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a>'s appointment of Dido Harding, Penrose's wife, to chair the National Institute for Health Protection, overseeing the Test and Trace initiative was illegal; <sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the scheme cost £37bn which was allocated to Serco and other private companies, before it failed in its primary objectives.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2020 he attracted media attention by suggesting that "chaotic parents" are to blame for sending their children to school hungry.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Penrose resigned as the Anti-Corruption Champion on 6 June 2022, the same day as the vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson. He said he could not defend "a fundamental breach of the ministerial code." He also confirmed he would be voting against Johnson in the <a href="/wiki/2022_vote_of_confidence_in_the_Conservative_Party_leadership_of_Boris_Johnson" title="2022 vote of confidence in the Conservative Party leadership of Boris Johnson">vote of no confidence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 United Kingdom general election</a>, he was unseated by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Aldridge" title="Dan Aldridge">Dan Aldridge</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Penrose&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Penrose met <a href="/wiki/Dido_Harding" title="Dido Harding">Dido Harding</a> (who was made Baroness Harding of Winscombe in 2014), only daughter of <a href="/wiki/John_Harding,_2nd_Baron_Harding_of_Petherton" title="John Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton">Lord Harding of Petherton</a>, while both worked at McKinsey. The couple married in October 1995, and have two daughters. Penrose has a house in his Weston-super-Mare constituency and a flat in London.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Harding is the chair of NHS Improvement,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the former head of <a href="/wiki/NHS_Test_and_Trace" title="NHS Test and Trace">NHS Test and Trace</a>, and the former <a href="/wiki/Chief_Executive" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Executive">Chief Executive</a> of <a href="/wiki/TalkTalk_Group" title="TalkTalk Group">TalkTalk Group</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, Penrose, who lives in <a href="/wiki/Winscombe" title="Winscombe">Winscombe</a>, caused some local controversy over the design of a proposed swimming pool complex at his home. Winscombe and Sandford Parish Council formally objected to the 'ugly and massive' design on the grounds it would harm local views. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> reported that this was noteworthy as Penrose had argued in 2013, in a previous ministerial role, for greater protection of historic views, suggesting some of the finest urban views in the country should be listed like buildings. 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