Michael Richard Weatherley (2 July 1957 – 20 May 2021) was a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove in East Sussex from 2010 to 2015.

[7] Weatherley's first parliamentary candidacy was at the 2001 general election in the safe Labour seat of Barking in east London; he increased the Conservative vote share, but came a distant second.

In the event, the seat was held by the incumbent Labour MP, David Lepper, with a majority of over 5,000, and the Conservative vote share declined.

[10] In 2006, Weatherley secured a seat on his local Crawley Borough Council, winning the Conservative-held ward of Furnace Green, and defeating the Labour candidate, 2005 Big Brother contestant Eugene Sully.

[16] Weatherley rejected claims in March 2013 that, as originator of the legislation, he was responsible for a homeless man freezing to death while sleeping outside an empty bungalow.

[19] In April 2014, Weatherley called on then-prime minister David Cameron to commit to the permanent funding of the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit to extend its existence beyond 2015.

[24] Weatherley wrote to David Cameron in favour of same-sex couples gaining equal marriage rights, also advocating that religious organisations should be forced to register such ceremonies, which caused controversy.