Sir Ashley Peter Fox[1] (born 15 November 1969)[2][3] is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Bridgwater since July 2024.

Educated at The King's School, Worcester, Fox studied law at Bristol Polytechnic before working for a year as an English assistant in France.

[citation needed] Before being elected as an MEP, Fox worked for 15 years as a solicitor in Bristol, specialising in insurance litigation.

[7] This was a crossparty effort to scrap the expensive practice of the European Parliament moving from Brussels to Strasbourg every month.

[8] As part of this campaign, he co-authored the Fox-Hafner report which received widespread support and changed the official position of the Parliament in favour of having a single seat in Brussels.

Fox was active across the South West on a wide range of issues – from farming and environmental to industrial and business.

[20] Similarly he supported residents in North Somerset against plans by the Environment Agency to move the sea defences a mile inland to create salt marshes and mudflats between Clevedon and Kewstoke.

He opposed plans to build an offshore wind farm off the Jurassic Coast in Dorset on the grounds that it would have damaged the local tourist industry.