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Nusrat Ghani

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Nusrat Ghani is the Conservative MP for Wealden and Vice-Chair of the powerful Conservative backbench 1922 Committee. Nusrat is the first woman in her family to receive a formal education. After state schooling, she studied at Birmingham City University, then Leeds for a master's degree. She’s had a career outside of politics, working for NGOs and the BBC World Service, which took her abroad to some of the world’s most difficult countries.

Within the constituency, she is proud to be the patron of the Hospice in the Weald, a patron of the Hailsham Cadets, President of Crowborough Cadets, Honorary Vice President of the Dorset Arms Angling Club, and a Breast Cancer Now Ambassador. Nusrat also holds a position as a Trustee of The Seafarers’ Charity. She Chaired the Government’s Rural Affairs Group and works closely with farmers and the NFU. She is a supporter of the community shed program and championed the local amateur choirs throughout the pandemic.

Nusrat has run many successful campaigns in the constituency, managing to keep Fletching School and Ridgewood, Mayfield, Groombridge, and Hailsham post offices open. She also secured a vital £1.3 million for Beacon Academy’s new roof and a further £1.3 million to fix roads in East Sussex.

In the 2015 general election Nusrat became the first female MP to hold the Wealden seat, elected with a majority of 22,967. In the 2017 general election she won 61.2% of the votes in Wealden, increasing her majority to 23,628. Again, she increased the party’s majority in the constituency to 25,655 at the 2019 general election.

Within Westminster, Nusrat has held a wide range of roles as a whip. As Transport Minister, she oversaw a large portfolio in the Department for Transport as Minister for Maritime and Minister for the Year of Engineering. It covered maritime, HS2, buses and taxis, as well as accessibility across all modes of transport. She also made British history as the first ever female Muslim woman to speak from the Dispatch Box in 2018.

Nusrat now sits on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee, where she scrutinises the Government's response to Covid-19, UK supply chains, private sector competition, industrial strategy and COP26. She led an inquiry on supply chain transparency which exposed slave labour in UK value chains and the data harvesting of British consumers. For this, she was sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party in March 2021, the only woman in Parliament who was, in an unprecedented move by the CCP to intimidate British MPs.

Nusrat was instrumental in leading on the Genocide Amendment to the UK’s flagship Trade Bill, aiming to stop the British Government pursuing preferential trade agreements with countries committing real time genocide. She was nominated for the 2021 NATO PA Women for Peace and Security Award and came runner up to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

You can often catch her walking or riding in the Forest, or having a drink in one of the many amazing pubs scattered around beautiful Wealden.

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Wealden's MP, Nus Ghani, MP convenes meeting with Southern Water and local authorities over Hellingly's ongoing flooding concerns

Wealden's MP, Nus Ghani, slams Southern Water and Environment Agency over inaction to tackle Hellingly sewage flooding

Thursday, 16 February, 2023

Conservatives continue to work to hold Southern Water to account over their ongoing failures to address and prevent issues with sewage flooding parts of Hellngly although Wealden's MP says she's disappointed that certain agencies have failed to provide answers. 

Conservatives tour Wealden's cottage hospitals and welcome plans for a new medical centre in Mayfield

Conservatives tour Wealden's cottage hospitals and welcome plans for a new medical centre in Mayfield

Friday, 20 January, 2023

Plans for a new GP surgery together with a brand new community hall for Mayfield have been approved by a Wealden planning committee this week.

All aboard for bus bonanza as £2 flat fare introduced to drive us out of cars

All aboard for bus bonanza as £2 flat fare introduced to drive us on to buses

Wednesday, 11 January, 2023

A Government scheme to slash bus fares until the end of March has been warmly welcomed by Wealden's Conservative MP, Nus Ghani. 

Wealden's MP visits the Ukraanian Community Support Group in Hellingly

Wealden's MP visits the Ukraanian Community Support Group in Hellingly

Monday, 28 November, 2022

Nusrat Ghani, Conservative MP for Wealden, has visited the Ukrainian community support and social group, which meets weekly at the Hellingly Community Hub, to support Ukrainian families living in the Hailsham area.

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East Sussex MPs gather to discuss "unfeasibly high" housing targets set for Wealden

Tuesday, 15 November, 2022

Wealden's MP continues to support the Conservative-run Wealden District Council in pressing the Housing Secretary to reduce the area's housing target.

Conservative MPs in Sussex demand an end to ‘unacceptable’ Sewage Discharge in strongly-worded letter

Conservative MPs in Sussex demand an end to ‘unacceptable’ Sewage Discharge in strongly-worded letter

Thursday, 18 August, 2022

Conservative MPs from across Sussex have written to Southern Water and the Environment Agency demanding that the Sussex waterways and coast ‘are respected and protected.’

Richard Hallett MBE, Vice President & Trustee, Friends of Crowborough Hospital, Matron Nicolette McCarthy and Nusrat Ghani MP

Conservative MP for Wealden, Nus Ghani, celebrates the reopening of Crowborough Birthing Unit

Saturday, 25 June, 2022

Conservative MP for Wealden, Nusrat Ghani,  has visited the Birthing Centre at the War Memorial Hospital in Crowborough to meet the team of midwifes and celebrate its reopening.

Ukrainian refugee families welcomed to Mayfield by Conservative council leader, Ann Newton, and Nus Ghani MP

Ukrainian refugee families welcomed to Mayfield by Conservative council leader, Ann Newton, and Wealden MP Nus Ghani

Tuesday, 24 May, 2022

The new Conservative leader of Wealden District Council visited the Ukrainian Support Hub in Mayfield with local MP, Nus Ghani, to welcome Ukrainian families to Wealden and to thank volunteers who have been coordinating local support.

East Sussex MPs' pressure on Government to reduce housing numbers is welcomed by Wealden's new leader, Ann Newton

East Sussex MPs' pressure on Government to reduce housing numbers is welcomed by Wealden's new leader, Ann Newton

Monday, 23 May, 2022

Councillor Ann Newton, who took over as leader of the authority this month, and is also the portfolio holder for Planning, has welcomed the input from Wealden MP Nus Ghani and Huw Merriman, the MP for Bexhill and Battle, whose constituency includes part of the Wealden district.

Wealden's MP, Nus Ghani, and leading Conservative councillors force further Government meeting over housing numbers

Wealden's MP, Nus Ghani, and leading Conservative councillors force further Government meeting over housing numbers

Thursday, 5 May, 2022

Conservative leaders at Wealden District Council have intensified their campaign to persuade the Government to lower the number of homes the area is obliged to provide in future years is continuing.

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