British Conservative politician and convicted sex offender
Charlie Elphicke
Official portrait, 2017
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
In office 13 May 2015 – 17 July 2016
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Preceded by
Mark Lancaster
Succeeded by
Robert Syms
Member of Parliament for Dover
In office 6 May 2010 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by
Gwyn Prosser
Succeeded by
Natalie Elphicke
Personal details
Born
Charles Brett Anthony Elphicke
(1971-03-14) 14 March 1971 (age 53)[1] Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
Political party
Conservative Party (before November 2017; December 2018 – July 2019 expelled) Independent (November 2017 – December 2018; July 2019–)
Spouse
Natalie Elphicke
(m. 1995; div. 2021)
[citation needed]
Children
2
Alma mater
University of Nottingham
Profession
Solicitor
Website
elphicke.com
Charles Brett Anthony Elphicke[2] (born 14 March 1971) is a British former politician and convicted sex offender. As a member of the Conservative Party and later an independent, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover from 2010 to 2019.
Elphicke studied law at the University of Nottingham before working as a solicitor. He was first elected as Conservative MP for Dover at the 2010 general election and served as a government whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 2015 to 2016. He did not stand for re-election at the 2019 general election and was succeeded by his then wife, Natalie Elphicke.
Elphicke was suspended from the Conservatives in November 2017 after he was accused of sexual offences against two members of his staff but had the Conservative whip reinstated prior to a December 2018 confidence vote in Theresa May. In July 2019, the whip was withdrawn again after he was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service with three counts of sexual assault against two women. In July 2020, he was found guilty of all three counts, sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and ordered to pay £35,000 within a year towards the costs of the prosecution.[3] He served half of his term and was released in September 2021 from an open prison in Gloucestershire.[4]
^"Former MP jailed for sexual assault". Metropolitan Police. 15 September 2020. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
^"No. 59418". The London Gazette. 13 May 2010. p. 8742.
^Topping, Alexandra (19 November 2021). "Ex-MP Charlie Elphicke jailed for sexual assault now claiming universal credit". The Guardian.
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