Jonathan Gullis
Jonathan Edward Gullis is a Conservative Party politician, who has served as the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent North since 2019.Education
Guillis attended Princethorpe College, an independent school near Rugby. He studied International Relations with Law at Oxford Brookes University and PGCE Secondary Citizenship at UCL Institute of Education.Career
Gullis was elected as a Conservative councillor in the Shipston ward of Stratford-upon-Avon in May 2011, until he resigned in October 2012 after starting a teaching job in London. He is reported as encouraging people to vote Labour around this time.
Gullis stood in Washington and Sunderland West at the 2017 general election but lost to incumbent Labour MP Sharon Hodgson.
Gullis was elected as the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North in the 2019 general election. He unseated Labour's Ruth Smeeth and became the first Conservative to represent the constituency. Upon his election, Gullis worked as a school teacher and head of year at Fairfax School in Sutton Coldfield and served as the school's trade union representative.
On 30 April 2020, Gullis was criticised after he complained of the media's 'sick obsession' with the number of deaths during the coronavirus pandemic and called comparisons with the number of deaths in other countries 'lazy' in a now deleted tweet. He later apologised for his 'poor choice of words'.
In June 2020, Gullis introduced a Ten Minute Rule bill which would introduce custodial sentences of up to 14 years for those who desecrate war memorials.
Gullis is a member of the European Research Group and is a parliamentary backer of Freer, an initiative run by the neoliberal Institute of Economic Affairs.Personal life
In March 2020, Gullis revealed that he has suffered with depression, self-harm and suicidal thoughts throughout his life. In June 2020, in a parliamentary debate on divorce law reform, Gullis revealed that he is currently going through a divorce.
