Anne Marie Morris (born 5 July 1957)[1] is a former British Conservative politician and lawyer, who represented Newton Abbot as a Member of Parliament (MP) between May 2010 and May 2024.

[2] Morris was privately educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, and then went to the University of Oxford, where she studied law at Hertford College.

[3] After a career working as a corporate lawyer, Morris became a marketing director for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst and Young.

[4][5] In December 2006, Morris was selected by the local Conservative Association as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Newton Abbot.

[10] In August 2013, Morris was one of 30 Conservative rebels whose votes helped defeat the government's plans for military action in Syria.

[25] However, she was subsequently unseated by the Liberal Democrat, Martin Wrigley, when her vote share from the previous General Election declined sharply from 55.6% to just 27% following a turnout of 65.2%.

[26] In July 2017, Morris faced calls for the Conservative whip to be withdrawn from her after being recorded on a parliamentary panel using the idiom "nigger in the woodpile" to describe the threat of leaving the EU without a deal, at the launch of a report into the future for the UK's financial sector after Brexit.

[32] In January 2022, it was reported by Politico that she had again lost the Conservative whip, for voting for an opposition day motion on a VAT cut for energy bills.

[33] Morris said she was "disappointed", but "won't apologise for supporting measures that would help my hard-working constituents at a time when the cost of living is rising.