Adam Holloway

Adam Holloway, Conservative MP for Gravesham since 2005, holds an MBA from Imperial College, London and has a background in the military. Having spent time as a teacher in the township of Soweto, South Africa during the first State of Emergency, Holloway subsequently attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1987. His military career took him to both Germany and Iraq, and he resigned in 1991 with the rank of Captain. Holloway then pursued a career in journalism and created the award-winning 1991 ITV documentary series “No Fixed Abode” where he lived homelessness in London. After becoming MP in 2005, Holloway joined the Defence Committee and then became parliamentary private secretary to the minister of state for Europe and NATO in 2010. Holloway was an early proponent of a referendum on membership of the EU and has voted against air strikes targeting in Iraq and Syria. He has served as deputy-chair of the Conservative Middle East Council and is currently parliamentary private secretary to the minister for housing, communities and local government, Robert Jenrick as well as serving on the Home Affairs Committee.