Nigel Mills

The Conservative MP for Amber Valley since 2010, Nigel Mills is a former chartered accountant and an ex-employee of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte. This area of interest has no doubt informed his later work as an MP on issues such as combating tax fraud and increasing the personal allowance for income tax. Before entering parliament, Mills was a councillor for Amber Valley borough council and Heanor and Loscoe Town council. He was one of 15 MPs to win The Spectator’s “Parliamentarians of the Year” award in 2013 on the basis of his opposition to restrictions on the press. He has been a supporter of the pro-Brexit group Leave Means Leave, alongside fellow parliamentarians including Jacob Rees-Mogg and Peter Bone. Mills backed Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement, although favoured leaving the EU without a deal if no agreement could be reached. He doubled his 2017 winning margin of 8,300 to 16,886 in December 2019, solidifying the Derbyshire constituency which was until 2010 held by Labour. Mills currently sits on the Work and Pensions, Backbench Business and Procedure Committees, as well as the Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union.