James Cartlidge

In 2019 Cartlidge was one of only 73 MPs to vote against equal marriage in Northern Ireland. He has publicly expressed his strong support for equal marriage but voted against imposing this law in Northern Ireland 'in absentia'.

Cartlidge's professional background is as an entrepreneur, having founded Share to Buy ltd, a shared ownership property portal, mortgage broker and host of the ‘London Home Show’, the capital's biggest event for first time buyers.

In January 2018 he was appointed as PPS to the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, and remained his PPS when Hunt was promoted as Foreign Secretary. In August 2019 he was appointed as PPS to the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace (politician).

Cartlidge is married to Emily, with whom he has four children. His father-in-law is the former Conservative MP, Gerald Howarth, Member of Parliament for Aldershot until 2017.

Cartlidge was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.

Cartlidge was elected to the Public Accounts Commission in November 2015 and the Work and Pensions Committee in October 2016.

Cartlidge stood for parliament in Lewisham Deptford in the 2005 general election finishing third with 12.4% of the vote. He was also an elected member of Babergh District Council before his election to the House of Commons in May 2015.

James Roger Cartlidge (born 30 April 1974) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Suffolk since May 2015.

James Cartlidge was born on 30 April 1974. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, a state grammar school for boys in the market town of Chipping Barnet in north west London, followed by the University of Manchester, where he studied Economics.