Philip Dunne (Ludlow MP)

Philip Martin Dunne (born 14 August 1958) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ludlow constituency in Shropshire from 2005 to 2024.

He was elected in 2001 as a councillor on the South Shropshire District Council, of which he was the Conservative leader in 2003–2005.

Philip Dunne was born in Ludlow, Shropshire, and has an ancestry of politicians and courtiers.

[4] Prior to the Conservative leadership election of 2005, he balloted his constituents about whom he should vote for in the contest.

[16] In November 2019, at a hustings held in Church Stretton, Dunne told the Labour candidate, Kuldip Sahota, that he was "talking through his turban".

[18] On 29 January 2020, Dunne was elected as chairman of the Environmental Audit Committee, spearheading the examination of government policies' impact on the environment.

[19] In this remit, he proposed a private member's bill aiming at sanctioning water companies "that discharge sewage into Britain's rivers".