Paul Holmes is the Conservative Party MP for Eastleigh, having first been elected to Parliament in 2019, with a majority of 15,607.
The Eastleigh constituency is found within the county of Hampshire, and has its epicentre at the point where the M27 joints the M3 motorway. It covers the railway town of Eastleigh, the town of Hedge End and some of the north eastern suburbs of Southampton itself. The Rose Bowl, the home of Hampshire Cricket Club is found within this constituency, and so too, are the estuary villages of Hamble and Bursledon, once the location for the BBC TV yachting drama, Howards Way. Although Eastleigh now has a large Conservative majority, for over twenty years up until 2015, the seat was represented in Parliament by the Liberal Democrats.
Born in 1988, Paul Holmes grew up on a council estate in Lewisham. He studied politics at the University of Southampton.
Having spent most of his working life in politics, he worked as a Special Adviser to the former Conservative Party Chairman Patrick McLoughlin and former First Minister of State, Damian Green. He also worked as a researcher for the Conservative MP, Stephen Hammond. He latterly worked as Head of Public Affairs at the social housing provider, Clarion, before being elected to Parliament.
A former Southampton City Councillor between 2008 and 2012, Holmes supported Brexit in the 2016 EU referendum.
He is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Housing Market and Delivery, South Western Railway, and Business in a Pandemic.
Email – paul.holmes.mp@parliament.uk
Website – www.voteholmes.co.uk
Twitter – @pauljholmes
