Anthony Mangnall

Mangnall was selected as the Conservative candidate for Totnes on 20 July 2019. Prior to his selection, he was working as a special adviser to then Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns. He had previously contested the notionally safe Labour constituency of Warley in the West Midlands in the 2017 general election. Mangnall was elected in the 2019 general election with a majority of 12,724. The seat had previously been represented by Sarah Wollaston who had left the Conservatives in February to join Change UK, and subsequently stood as a Liberal Democrats candidate in the constituency. He has been a member of the Procedure Committee and Regulatory Reform Committee since March 2020.

Mangnall moved to Singapore in 2012 to work as a broker for shipbroking company Braemar ACM. He joined Poten and Partners in London in 2014. Mangnall then returned to politics in 2016 and worked in Hague's office as a special adviser.

Anthony James Holland Mangnall (born 12 August 1989) is a British Conservative Party politician, who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Totnes since the 2019 general election. Prior to his parliamentary career, Mangnall worked in shipbroking and as a special adviser.

Mangnall was born on 12 August 1989. His early childhood was spent in Zimbabwe and Northern Ireland. Mangnall was privately educated at the Shrewsbury School in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. After this, he spent three months as a shepherd on the Lochbuie Estate on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. Mangnall then studied history, politics, and sociology at the University of Exeter. During his time at university, he worked as a researcher in the parliamentary office of former Richmond (Yorks) MP and Foreign Secretary William Hague.