Tugendhat vill leda Tories – utmanar James Cleverly

Thomas Georg John Tugendhat (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 as a journalist for The Daily Star, before becoming an officer in the British Army reserves in 2003, the Territorial Army; serving 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 in the election. After Truss's election as party leader and appointment as Prime Minister, she appointed Tugendhat to a cabinet attending role as Minister of State for Security in September 2022. 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.