Marco Longhi

Marco Andrea Longhi[1] (1967) is a British Conservative Party politician and property entrepreneur who has served as the Member of Parliament for Dudley North since 2019.

Marco Longhi

MP
Member of Parliament
for Dudley North
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded byIan Austin
Majority11,533 (31.5%)
Personal details
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
OccupationPolitician
Websitewww.marcolonghi.org.uk

Early life

Longhi grew up in Rome, the son of an Italian airline worker. He trained as a pilot and later studied engineering at Manchester University, before working in the oil and gas industry.[2]

Political career

In 1999, Longhi was elected as a Conservative councillor in Walsall, where his grandfather Wilfred Clarke had been Mayor in 1978, and became Mayor in 2017 and again in 2018.[2] In the 2005 general election he ran for election in Dudley South, gaining an increased vote share but losing to the Labour incumbent by around 4,000 votes.

He ran again in Dudley North at the 2019 general election, gaining the seat after the incumbent, Ian Austin (independent, formerly Labour) stood down.[3]

On 22 April 2020, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, he became the first ever MP to speak in the Commons chamber via remote video link,[4] asking a question of the Welsh Secretary, Simon Hart.[5]

Business career

Longhi is the director of property management company Justmove (Lettings) Limited and owns nine houses in Walsall.[1][6]

gollark: Also, "OS" is wrong 99% of the time in CC, sooo...
gollark: I'd recommend against unicode stuff in CC, though.
gollark: Delta is such an overused greek letter...
gollark: ^ Delta
gollark: reee nonsense

References
  1. "JUSTMOVE (LETTINGS) LIMITED - Officers". Companies House. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  2. Madeley, Peter (1 November 2019). "Brexiteer Marco Longhi sets sights on Parliament in Dudley North campaign". Express and Star. Midlands News Association.
  3. "Dudley North parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". BBC News. 13 December 2019.
  4. Poole, Danielle. "Marco Longhi MP makes history by asking first question in virtual Parliament". Worcester News. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  5. "Welsh minister attacks Raab over target comments". BBC News. 22 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  6. "Marco Longhi MP, Dudley North". TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Ian Austin		 Member of Parliament for Dudley North
2019–present		 Incumbent
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