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Tom Tugendhat | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2022 | |
Minister of State for Security | |
Assumed office 6 September 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Liz Truss Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Stephen McPartland |
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee | |
In office 12 July 2017 – 7 September 2022 | |
Preceded by | Crispin Blunt |
Succeeded by | Alicia Kearns |
Member of Parliament for Tonbridge and Malling | |
In office 7 May 2015 – 30 May 2024 | |
Preceded by | John Stanley |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
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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Website | tomtugendhat |
Military service | |
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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[2] MBE VR (born 27 June 1973) is a British-French politician who has served as Minister of State for Security since 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tonbridge and Malling from 2015 until the constituency was abolished in 2024.[3] Tugendhat was the chairman of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee from 2017 to 2022.
Before entering politics, he worked as a journalist and as a public relations consultant in the Middle East. He also had a part-time role as an officer in the British Army reserves, the Territorial Army; Tugendhat served in the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War.
In July 2022, Tugendhat stood in the Conservative Party leadership election, following Prime Minister Boris Johnson's resignation, and was eliminated in the third round of parliamentary voting.[4][5] He subsequently supported Liz Truss's bid to become Conservative leader. Following Truss's appointment as Prime Minister, she appointed Tugendhat as Minister of State for Security, a role in which he continues to serve under the subsequent Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.