Jack Lopresti

Jack Lopresti
MP
Member of Parliament
for Filton and Bradley Stoke
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Constituency Created
Majority 6,914 (14.3%)
Personal details
Born 23 August 1969[1]
Southmead, Gloucestershire, England
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Lucy Lopresti
Website Official website

Giacomo (Jack) Lopresti[2] (23 August 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician, and a member of the Conservative Friends of Israel group. In the 2010 general election he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Filton and Bradley Stoke, a constituency newly created by changes made by the Boundary Commission for England.[3]

Early career

On leaving school, Lopresti worked in his family ice cream business for over ten years. After 1997, he worked as an estate agent and mortgage broker before working for the Conservative Party as a Regional Development Officer and in the Conservative Party Treasurer’s Department .

Military

He has also served in the Territorial Army in the 266 Battery, Royal Artillery as a gunner, serving with the 29 Commando for a year, which culminated in a 5-month tour in Afghanistan.[4] From 2011 to 2013, Lopresti served as a trooper in the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, an army reserve cavalry unit. Prior to that, Lopresti was a gunner with 266 Commando Battery, which is based in Whiteladies Road. During that time, Lopresti served, as a mobilised reservist, with 29 Commando RA for a year and was deployed in Helmand Province, in Afghanistan, on Operation Herrick 9 for 5 months over Christmas and New Year 2008/9. Whilst in Afghanistan, Lopresti ran the Camp Bastion Half Marathon, for Help the Heroes, on New Years Day 2009.

Politics

Lopresti previously represented the Stockwood Ward on Bristol City Council from 1999 to 2007. He also stood unsuccessfully for the Bristol East constituency in 2001, and for the South West at the European Parliament elections in 2004.

Lopresti was a member of the A-List.[5] and is the son-in-law of Lord Cope of Berkeley who was the Member of Parliament for North Avon from 1983-1997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cope,_Baron_Cope_of_Berkeley

In 2011, he was a member of the special Select Committee set up to scrutinise the Bill that became the Armed Forces Act 2011.[6] He also served on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee[7]

Lopresti has been part of a number of delegations of the Conservative Friends of Israel group,[8] including during the Operation Defensive Shield conflict when he visited for an Israeli military briefing on the Iron Dome defence system.[9]

In 2012 Lopresti was named by Conservative Home as one of a minority of loyal Conservative backbench MPs not to have voted against the government in any significant rebellions.[10]

Lopresti was treated for bowel cancer in 2013[11]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U251250/
  2. ↑ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59418/notices/1118281/from=2010-05-06;to=2010-05-19;all=returned+westminster/
  3. ↑ "Election 2010: Filton and Bradley Stoke result". politics.co.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  4. ↑ "Biography". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  5. ↑ http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/2009/04/the-18-of-the-original-100-alisters-selected-for-conservative-seats-.html
  6. ↑ "Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill". parliament.uk. Retrieved 20 Sep 2013.
  7. ↑ "Jack Lopresti". Parliament UK. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  8. ↑ http://www2.cfoi.co.uk/Delegations/RecentDelegations/
  9. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/30/tory-mps-visit-israel-condemned-bad-timing
  10. ↑ Barrett, Matthew. "The 24 Conservative MPs who are still on the backbenches and have never rebelled". Conservative Home. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Filton and Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti has cancer". 6 June 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2015.

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