Aaron Stuart Bell (born 25 February 1980) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 2019 to 2024.
He was a senior trading performance analyst from 2006 to 2019 for the online betting company Bet365, and co-founded DivideBuy, a financial technology firm which employs 40 staff in Newcastle.
[18] In January 2022, in the wake of the Partygate controversy, Bell publicly criticised Boris Johnson by asking: "Does the Prime Minister think I'm a fool" for properly following COVID-19 regulations during his grandmother's funeral the year before.
[19] On 31 May 2024, Bell announced he would stand down at the 2024 United Kingdom general election due to personal and family reasons.
[20] In October 2024, and following a complaint in February 2024, parliament's Independent Expert Panel reprimanded him for "brazen and drunken" sexual misconduct in parliament’s Strangers' Bar in December 2023 by touching a young female member of staff's thigh, waist and bottom without her consent.