Chris Loder

Christopher Lionel John Loder[2] (born 5 September 1981)[3] is a British Conservative politician who has been the MP for West Dorset since the 2019 general election.[4] He succeeded the independent MP Sir Oliver Letwin, who did not stand for reelection. He had previously worked as head of new trains for South Western Railway.[5]

Chris Loder
MP
Official portrait, 2020
Member of Parliament
for West Dorset
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded byOliver Letwin
Majority14,106 (23.2%)
Personal details
Born (1981-09-05) 5 September 1981
Sherborne, Dorset, England [1]
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
OccupationPolitician

Early life

Loder was born in Sherborne in September 1981. He grew up near Folke in Dorset on his parents' farm and attended The Gryphon School in Sherborne. Aged 18, he joined South West Trains as a train guard. He stayed in the rail industry, rising to becoming “Head of New Trains” until his election to Parliament in 2019.[1]

Political career

Loder became Parish Clerk for Bishops Caundle in 1998, and was awarded the young person's merit award for commitment to the local community.[1] He was elected to West Dorset District Council to represent the ward of Cam Vale in 2013, the seat was subject to a boundary review and Loder was not re-elected when the seat became a multi-member ward in 2015. Loder was Chairman of West Dorset Conservatives for more than three years until August 2019.

He is a member of the Common Sense Group of Conservative Parliamentarians;[6] part of their mission is to "ensure institutional custodians of history and heritage, tasked with safeguarding and celebrating British values, are not coloured by cultural Marxist dogma, colloquially known as the 'woke agenda'". Following an interim report on the connections between colonialism and properties now in the care of the National Trust, Loder was among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph from the group asking that "History must neither be sanitised nor rewritten to suit 'snowflake' preoccupations".[7][8]

Personal life

One of Loder's hobbies is bell ringing at local churches in Dorset.[9]

References
  1. "About Chris Loder". Conservative Party (UK). Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  2. "Members Sworn". Hansard.parliament.uk. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  3. Brunskill, Ian (19 March 2020). The Times guide to the House of Commons 2019 : the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574.
  4. "Dorset West Parliamentary Constituency results". BBC News. 12 December 2019.
  5. Lea, Martin (1 October 2019). "Chris Loder new Conservative Parliamentary candidate for West Dorset". Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  6. "Brexiteer Wants Our Supply Chain to Collapse". Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  7. "Britain's heroes". Letter to the Daily Telegraph. 9 November 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2021.CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. "Letter to the Telegraph". Sir Edward Leigh. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  9. "Bell ringing in Dorset". Twitter.com. 27 October 2019.


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