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Martin Vickers

Not to be confused with Matt Vickers.
Martin Vickers
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Brigg and Immingham
Cleethorpes (2010–2024)
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byShona McIsaac
Majority3,243 (7.6%)
Personal details
Born
Martin John Vickers

(1950-09-13) 13 September 1950 (age 74)[1]
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England
Political partyConservative
SpouseAnn Gill
Children1
ResidenceCleethorpes
Alma materUniversity of Lincoln
Websitewww.martinvickers.org.uk

Martin John Vickers[2] (born 13 September 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brigg and Immingham since the 2024 general election. He previously represented the Cleethorpes constituency from 2010 until its abolition in 2024.

Early life

Born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, Vickers was educated at Havelock Technical School and Grimsby College.[3] He gained a politics degree at the University of Lincoln after six years as a part-time student in 2004.[4] His father, Norman Vickers of 140 Heneage Road in Grimsby, died, aged 71, in May 1988, having worked for 42 years with British United Trawlers, and served in World War II in the Army.[5]

In 1979, he stood as a Conservative candidate for the Cromwell ward on Great Grimsby Borough Council, but was not successful. The following year, he elected as a councillor for the Weelsby ward on that council.[6] Having only narrowly held his seat in 1986 by just 74 votes, he changed seats in 1990 to the Scartho ward (even then, only winning by an even narrower 30 votes) while Labour comfortably gained his old seat. In May 1994, he lost his seat in Scartho to the Liberal Democrats.[7][8]

In 1995, he stood for the Scartho ward (with boundaries similar to the former Humberside County Council division) on the then-newly created unitary authority North East Lincolnshire Council which replaced the Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes borough councils, but was unsuccessful. He did, however, gain the seat from Labour in May 1999[9] and remained on the authority until 2011[10]

Before being elected an MP, he served as full-time Conservative agent for Edward Leigh.[citation needed] He had a newsagents on Freeman Road,[11] the Card Cabin.[12]

Parliamentary career

Vickers was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cleethorpes in the 2010 general election, by a majority of 4,298.[13] On 24 October 2011, Vickers was one of 81 MPs to rebel against the government to vote for a national referendum on the European Union.[14] He was re-elected in the 2015 election and 2017 election.[15]

Political views and parliamentary voting record

Vickers opposes the legalisation of same-sex marriage. He voted against Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 which introduced it in England and Wales.[16] Vickers also voted against similar legislation which introduced it in Northern Ireland in 2019.[17] In the same year, Vickers was one of 21 MPs who voted against LGBT inclusive sex and relationship education in English schools.[18] He also voted against the legalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland in 2019.[17]

Despite his social conservative views on gay rights and abortions, Vickers has maintained he opposes the reintroduction of the death penalty.[19]

Vickers supported Brexit in the 2016 EU membership referendum.[20] He voted for then Prime Minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement.[21]

He is a member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship.[22][better source needed] As of 31 July 2019, Vickers is the vice chair of the APPGs for Albania, Azerbaijan, Central America, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Isle of Man, East Coast Main Line, Economic Development, Fair Fuel for UK Motorists and UK Hauliers, Fisheries, Football, Rail in the North, Transport Across the North, and Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire. He is the secretary of the APPG for Australia and New Zealand and the treasurer for the APPG for Heritage Rail. He is also the chair of the APPG for Kosovo, North Macedonia, Freeports, Oil Refining Sector, Rail. Vickers is co-chair of the APPG for Montenegro and an officer for the APPG for Serbia and River Thames.[23]

Following an interim report on the connections between colonialism and properties now in the care of the National Trust, including links with historic slavery, Vickers was among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph in November 2020 from the "Common Sense Group" of Conservative Parliamentarians. The letter accused the National Trust of being "coloured by cultural Marxist dogma, colloquially known as the 'woke agenda'".[24]

Personal life

He married Ann Gill[25] on Saturday 3 October 1981 at St Peter's church in Cleethorpes,[26] and they have one daughter.[27][28] His wife works in his parliamentary office as a part-time junior secretary.[29]

References

  1. ^ "Martin Vickers MP". BBC Democracy Live. BBC. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
  2. ^ "2010 Parliamentary Elections". North East Lincolnshire Council. Archived from the original on 11 May 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  3. ^ "Martin Vickers". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  4. ^ "Vickers, Martin". Politics.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  5. ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 13 May 1988, page 5
  6. ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Wednesday 7 October 1981, page 12
  7. ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 6 May 1994, page 2
  8. ^ "Great Grimsby Borough Council Elections 1973-1994" (PDF).
  9. ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 7 May 1999, page 6
  10. ^ "Cllr Vickers, Martin". North East Lincolnshire Council. Archived from the original on 30 January 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  11. ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Saturday 15 June 1991, page 9
  12. ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Wednesday 3 July 1991, page 55
  13. ^ "Cleethorpes". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  14. ^ Wintour, Patrick (25 October 2011). "Full list of MPs who voted for an EU referendum". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  15. ^ "Cleethorpes parliamentary constituency". BBC News. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  16. ^ "MP-by-MP: Gay marriage vote". BBC News. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  17. ^ a b Baynes, Chris (10 July 2019). "All the MPs who voted against lifting abortion ban and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland". The Independent. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  18. ^ Butterworth, Benjamin (28 March 2019). "MPs vote for LGBT inclusive sex and relationship education from primary school". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  19. ^ "Death penalty would not prevent another Huntley says MP". BBC News. 12 July 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  20. ^ "Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence? – Coffee House". The Spectator. 16 February 2016.
  21. ^ "How MPs voted on May's withdrawal deal defeat". Financial Times. 29 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019.
  22. ^ "Martin John VICKERS - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  23. ^ "Register of All-Party Parliamentary Groups" (PDF). parliament.uk. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  24. ^ "Britain's heroes". Letter to the Daily Telegraph. 9 November 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2021.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  25. ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Tuesday 22 September 1981, page 7
  26. ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 2 October 1981, page 2
  27. ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Tuesday 20 April 1999, page 5
  28. ^ Leonard, Simon (9 June 2017). "This is what Martin Vickers is pledging for Cleethorpes after his General Election win". Scunthorpe Telegraph. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  29. ^ "Register of Members' Financial Interests as at 12 August 2019" (PDF). parliament.uk. p. 509. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
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