Anne Marie Morris

Anne Marie Morris was elected as the Conservative MP for Newton Abbot in 2010. A former lawyer, Morris was elected as a councillor on West Sussex County Council in 2005, going on to chair their Health Scrutiny Committee, before entering parliament in 2010. She was criticised in 2016 when she was one of 72 MPs who were also landlords who voted down a Labour amendment to the Housing and Planning Bill that would require landlords to provide housing that was “fit for human habitation.” In 2018, Morris joined calls for Theresa May to step down as leader, submitting a letter of no confidence. She told the BBC, “I am not alone and I do it with a heavy heart, but now it’s the country that matters more than absolutely anything else.” A staunch Brexiter, Morris hinted in April 2019 that she might vote for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in the European elections. Morris nonetheless kept her seat for the Conservatives in 2019, upholding her 17,000-strong majority after winning an identical share of the vote which she had achieved two years earlier. She currently sits on the European Scrutiny Committee.