Christopher Pincher was first elected as the Conservative MP for Tamworth in 2010, being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 19,634.
The constituency of Tamworth is found in south east Staffordshire. It is largely based on the market town of Tamworth close to the M6 Toll motorway. Well served by transport links this is an economically active constituency, some thirteen miles north east of Birmingham.
The former Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, represented this area between 1830 and 1850. It lent its name to the 1834 Tamworth manifesto from which historians regularly trace the early principles of the modern Conservative Party.
However paying little attention to its historical pedigree, Labour held this seat under Tony Blair between 1997 and 2010. Although the Conservatives obtained a sizeable two thirds of the vote here in 2019, this had historically been a bell-weather marginal which voted with the government of the day. Some two thirds of the Tamworth electorate backed Brexit in the 2016 EU referendum.
Pincher is currently the Deputy Government Chief Whip. He was previously appointed as the Minister for Housing in 2020.
He previously served as Minister of State at the Foreign Office between 2019 and 2020. Prior to that he was Government Deputy Chief Whip during the Parliamentary Brexit disputes in Parliament of 2018 and 2019.
Christopher Pincher was born in 1969 in Walsall and grew up in Wombourne near Wolverhampton. He studied history at the London School of Economics and worked for an IT consultancy firm before being elected to Parliament. He previously worked in Saudi Arabia.
Pincher supported Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.
He is known for his opposition to the HS2 rail scheme.
He describes his interests as playing golf, watching horse racing and motor racing, and reading. He writes a wine column for Critic Magazine.
Email: christopher.pincher.mp@parliament.uk
Personal Website: www.christopherpincher.com
Twitter: @ChrisPincher
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ChristopherPincherMP
