Daniel Kawczynski was elected as the Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham in 2005, and was reelected in 2019 with a majority of 11,217.
The constituency of Shrewsbury and Atcham is located in the centre of Shropshire close to the Welsh border. Although the seat contains a number of small villages in the southern part of the Shropshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the majority of the electorate live in the county town of Shrewsbury. Shrewsbury is a Conservative leaning seat but it is not outside Labour’s reach and was held by the party between 1997 and 2005.
Kawczynski was born in Poland in 1972, and he is currently the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Poland. He then grew up in Surrey, before reading Business Studies with French and Spanish at Stirling University.
At six foot seven inches tall, he is currently Westminster’s tallest MP.
Kawczynski worked in telecommunications for ten years as an international account manager before being elected to Westminster. According to the Register of Members Interests, he is now a consultant providing general advice to The Electrum Group LLC, a mining group based in the USA.
He was a stronger supporter of Brexit in the 2016 European referendum.
Kawczynski came out as bisexual in 2013. He married his Brazilian partner, Fernando, in 2019 in a ceremony at the House of Commons. He has a daughter from a previous marriage. He enjoys golf.
In 2020 he attracted attention for speaking at a National Conservatism event which included Hungary’s far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán and Italy’s populist leader Matteo Salvini.
In 2021 he was required to apologise in the Commons chamber after claims that he had bullied Commons staff in a dispute over some IT issues, doing so after consuming alcohol.
Daniel Kawcyznski is Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Zoos and Aquariums; Liechtenstein; Morocco; Norfolk Island; and San Marino.
Email: daniel.kawczynski.mp@parliament.uk
Personal Website: www.daniel4shrewsbury.org.uk
Twitter: @KawczynskiMP
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Daniel-Kawczynski/
