Tom Tugendhat | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister for Security | |
| Assumed office 8 July 2024 | |
| Leader | Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | Dan Jarvis |
| Minister of State for Security | |
| In office 6 September 2022 – 5 July 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Liz Truss Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | Stephen McPartland |
| Succeeded by | Dan Jarvis |
| Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee | |
| In office 12 July 2017 – 6 September 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Crispin Blunt |
| Succeeded by | Alicia Kearns |
| Member of Parliament for Tonbridge Tonbridge and Malling (2015–2024) | |
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |
| Preceded by | John Stanley |
| Majority | 11,166 (22.2%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Thomas Georg John Tugendhat 27 June 1973 London, England |
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| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Anissia Morel[1] |
| Children | 2 |
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| Relatives | The Lord Tugendhat (uncle) |
| Education | St Paul's School, London |
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| Signature |  |
| Website | tomtugendhat |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Branch/service |  British Army |
| Years of service | 2003–2013 |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Unit | Adjutant General's Corps Intelligence Corps |
| Battles/wars | Iraq War War in Afghanistan |
| Awards | MBE (2010) VR (2013) |
Thomas Georg John Tugendhat MBE VR (born 27 June 1973) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tonbridge, previously Tonbridge and Malling, since 2015. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Shadow Minister for Security since 2024. He previously served in the Cabinet as Minister of State for Security from September 2022 to July 2024.
Born in Westminster, Tugendhat attended St Paul's School. He studied at the University of Bristol and went on to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He then briefly worked in Beirut as a journalist for The Daily Star, before becoming an officer in the British Army reserves, the Territorial Army, in 2003; he served in both the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War. He later served as one of the military assistants to the Chief of the Defence staff. Tugendhat was elected to Parliament for the Conservative party as the MP for Tonbridge and Malling in the 2015 general election. He was reelected in both the 2017 general election and the 2019 general election, and was also the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee between 2017 and 2022.
Following the resignation of Boris Johnson in July 2022, Tugendhat stood in the Conservative Party leadership election to succeed him. He was eliminated in the third round of parliamentary voting, and subsequently endorsed Liz Truss, serving in her government as Minister of State for Security. Following Truss's resignation the next month, Tugendhat endorsed Rishi Sunak in the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election and retained his ministerial position in Sunak's cabinet. After the Conservative Party's defeat in the 2024 general election, Tugendhat became the Shadow Minister for Security in Sunak's shadow cabinet, and later launched his bid to become Leader of the Conservative Party. He was eliminated in the third round of Conservative MP voting.
- ^ Olphin, Olivia (11 July 2022). "Who is Tom Tugendhat's wife Anissia Morel? Meet the PM hopeful's family". TheFocus. GRV Media. Archived from the original on 11 July 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2022.