David Johnston (British politician)

David Johnston
Official portrait, 2019
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing
In office
31 August 2023 – 5 July 2024
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byClaire Coutinho
Succeeded byJanet Daby
Member of Parliament
for Wantage
In office
12 December 2019 – 30 May 2024
Preceded byEd Vaizey
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
David Mervyn Johnston

(1981-11-27) 27 November 1981 (age 42)
Whitechapel, London, England
Political partyConservative
EducationBalliol College, Oxford[1]
Websitewww.david-johnston.org.uk

David Mervyn Johnston OBE (born 27 November 1981) is a British politician who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing from August 2023 to the general election of July 2024.[2] A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wantage from 2019 until 2024 when the seat was abolished.[3][4]

On 6 July 2022, he resigned from his position as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Education amid the Chris Pincher scandal which led to Boris Johnson’s resignation as Prime Minister.

  1. ^ "Class of 2019: Meet the new MPs". Politics Home. 25 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Ministerial Appointments: 31 August 2023". GOV.UK. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Johnston, David Mervyn, (born 27 Nov. 1981), MP (C) Wantage, since 2019". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2020. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u294103. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Wantage parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 13 December 2019.