Preceded by Constituency Created Children 3 Spouse Lucy Lopresti Political party Conservative Role Politician | Nationality British Name Jack Lopresti Majority 9,838 (20.0%) Website www.jacklopresti.com Party Conservative Party | |
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Born 23 August 1969 (age 54)
Southmead, Bristol, England ( 1969-08-23 ) Profiles | ||
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Giacomo "Jack" Lopresti (born 23 August 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician. In the 2010 general election he was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Filton and Bradley Stoke, a constituency newly created by changes made by the Boundary Commission for England.
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- Jack Lopresti MP speaks at Newroz reception in Parliament
- Early career
- Military
- Politics
- Personal life
- References
Jack Lopresti MP speaks at Newroz reception in Parliament
Early career
On leaving school, Lopresti worked in his family ice cream business for over ten years. After 1997, he worked as an estate agent and mortgage broker before working for the Conservative Party as a Regional Development Officer and in the Conservative Party Treasurer's Department.
Military
Lopresti served in the Territorial Army as a gunner with 266 Commando Battery, Royal Artillery. He served, as a mobilised reservist, with 29 Commando RA for a year and was deployed in Helmand Province, in Afghanistan, on Operation Herrick 9 for 5 months over Christmas and New Year 2008/9. Whilst in Afghanistan, Lopresti ran the Camp Bastion Half Marathon, for Help for Heroes, on New Years Day 2009. From 2011 to 2013, Lopresti served as a trooper in the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, an army reserve cavalry unit.
Politics
Lopresti previously represented the Stockwood Ward on Bristol City Council from 1999 to 2007. He also stood unsuccessfully for the Bristol East constituency in 2001, and for the South West at the European Parliament elections in 2004.
Lopresti was a member of the A-List. and is the former son-in-law of Lord Cope of Berkeley who was the Member of Parliament for Northavon from 1983-1997 and Paymaster General in John Major's government.
In 2011, he was a member of the special Select Committee set up to scrutinise the Bill that became the Armed Forces Act 2011. He also served on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
Lopresti is a member of the Conservative Friends of Israel group, and has attended delegations of that group including during the Operation Defensive Shield conflict when he visited for an Israeli military briefing on the Iron Dome air defence system.
In 2012 Lopresti was named by Conservative Home as one of a minority of loyal Conservative backbench MPs not to have voted against the government in any significant rebellions.
In 2013 Lopresti voted against same-sex marriage.
In the 2015 UK general election, he retained his seat with an increased majority of almost 10,000.
Lopresti supported Brexit in the 2016 European Union referendum.
Personal life
Lopresti is divorced from his former wife Lucy, the daughter of Lord Cope of Berkeley. Together they have three children. In December 2015 it was revealed that Lopresti was having an extramarital affair with fellow MP Andrea Jenkyns. Following his divorce Lopresti is now engaged to Jenkyns and they had a child together in March 2017. Lopresti has been a Freemason since about 2003.
Lopresti was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2013. He has received treatment at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.