John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling MP)

Sir John Paul Stanley (born 19 January 1942)[1][2] is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tonbridge and Malling from 1974 to 2015.

He was made Minister of State with responsibility for housing at the Department of the Environment following the Conservative victory at the 1979 general election.

[4] In May 2014, The Independent reported that Stanley had received fees worth thousands of pounds for consultancy work for one of the big City investors[which?]

[5] In July 2023, declassified UK government documents from the period after the September 11 2001 attacks in the USA showed that Stanley had warned the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, that there was a high risk of terrorist attacks in the UK, possibly even using a 'dirty bomb' or other acquired weapon of mass destruction.

Stanley urged Blair to strengthen domestic UK security and improve civil defence preparedness.