[8] The report also showed that inequality in income had "barely changed" since 1996–1997, though a Treasury spokesman pointed out that the UK continued "to top global investment league tables".

[12] At the 2010 general election Elphicke won with a 10.4% swing, the 31st-largest from Labour to Conservative and the seventh-highest figure in the South East excluding the Speaker.

Secondly they deemed that its doctrine of separation, which limits the time members spend with outsiders, may harm rather than benefit family life, though they accepted this was based on possibly outdated criticisms, not evidence.

[27] On 15 October 2012, Downing Street announced Elphicke's appointment as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Minister for Europe David Lidington.

Elphicke argued in the House of Commons that the process of taking back control from the EU should be carried out in a manner that respected the sovereignty of Parliament.

[31][32] The instigation of additional border security following the 2016 Nice truck attack caused much publicised seven-mile queues, taking up to fourteen hours to process, on the A2 and A20.

[33] In August 2016, Elphicke called for light naval forces including the Royal Marines to prevent cross-channel people-trafficking.

He compared the requirements with those of the First World War Dover Patrol, which used older ships to detect and deter enemy submarines from using the Channel.

[34] In August 2017 Elphicke organised a letter to be sent by 40 MPs to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, calling for the return of duty-free sales once the UK leaves the EU.

[35] He became vice-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group FairFuelUK – an organisation committed to reducing fuel duty[36] – having previously served as its chairman.

He set out the board structure and steps needed to ensure an enduring solution in the key areas of community involvement, commercial development and regeneration.

[51] The first change has been that the Crown Prosecution Service has now specified for prosecutors that, in dealing with cases of fentanyl, they need to take into account the potency of this drug.

During a debate called by Elphicke in Parliament, Justice Minister Rory Stewart announced Robert's Law, saying: "I really want to pay tribute to the honourable member for Dover and Deal.

He published 'Ready on Day One' which called for:[54][53] resilient roads to the Channel Ports, efficient processing of customs controls, a new Entente Cordiale to extend the Le Touquet Treaty to cover customs co-operation and build a new era of deeper co-operation with France, a Brexit Infrastructure Bill and one government at the border to ensure order.

[53] Finally he published 'The Withdrawal of the UK from the EU – Analysis of Potential Financial Liabilities', with the assistance of Martin Howe QC, on behalf of the European Research Group.

[63] During the second reading of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill in the House of Commons on 5 November,[64] Elphicke reiterated the rates of tax paid to HMRC by some US multinationals.

Many of the leading companies (including Starbucks,[65] Google and Amazon.com) have been called to give evidence over this issue, most recently raised by Elphicke, in front of the Public Accounts Select Committee in November 2012.

At the same time as Elphicke pushed this issue up the domestic UK news agenda, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, raised it at the G20 meeting in Mexico City.

[70][better source needed] On 24 May 2013 Elphicke wrote an article for The Daily Telegraph concluding: "Amazon, Google and Starbucks are just the very small tip of a very, very large iceberg.

"[71] In June 2014 Elphicke was one of a number of Conservative MPs who criticised Oxfam's Twitter and poster campaign against the government's austerity programme.

Oxfam had called for all parties to reduce food poverty in the UK; its posters highlighted a "perfect storm", which included references to zero-hour contracts, unemployment and benefit cuts.

[74] The Charity Commission ruled that, although Oxfam's motives were not intentionally political, it could have done more to show its tweets related to its own report on food poverty.

[76] In August 2016, ahead of intergovernmental discussions with the French – possibly involving the Le Touquet Agreement – Elphicke advised ministers to remember that France had genuine concerns about terrorism and that both countries should concentrate on getting a long-term solution to problems rather than "threatening tit for tat".

[79] His wife, Natalie Elphicke, immediately defended him, asserting that the manner of his suspension was a threat to British values and an injustice.

"[81] In April 2018, The Sunday Times reported that a rape allegation had been made against Elphicke in November 2017, at the height of the Westminster sex scandals, but that the police had not informed him of it for about five months.

[82] After The Sunday Times published its report that Elphicke was under police investigation, he sued in order to shut the story down, using libel and privacy laws.

[87] In their statement, the CPS emphasised that Elphicke "has a right to a fair trial" and that "there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings".

[93] His ex-wife Natalie Elphicke and four other MPs (Sir Roger Gale, Theresa Villiers, Adam Holloway and Bob Stewart) were found to have breached their code of conduct by the Commons Select Committee on Standards for improperly trying to influence a judge, when they had signed a letter on parliamentary notepaper to the Lord Chief Justice pressing Mrs Justice Whipple not to disclose character statements in his trial at Southwark in 2021.