Luke Evans (politician)


Luke Morgan Evans is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Bosworth in Leicestershire since the 2019 general election. He is also a general practitioner.

Early life and medical career

His father is a GP and his mother is a nurse. Evans qualified as a doctor from the University of Birmingham Medical School in 2007 and specialised as a GP in 2013.

Political career

Evans stood as a Conservative candidate in Birmingham Edgbaston in the 2015 general election, and came second to the incumbent Labour MP Gisela Stuart who had represented the constituency since 1997. He supported the UK leaving the EU in the 2016 UK EU membership referendum.
In September 2019, Evans beat constituency chairman and local councillor Peter Bedford in a secret ballot of around 100 Conservative Association members to be selected for the Bosworth seat.
He was elected as Bosworth MP in the 2019 general election replacing Conservative MP David Tredinnick. As of the 2019 election, Bosworth is the 51st safest Conservative seat.
Evans has served as a member of the Health and Social Care Select Committee since March 2020.

Personal life

Evans married Dr. Charlotte March in May 2019, who is a GP.