Flick Drummond

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Drummond returned to the UK in 2004, and was selected to stand for Parliament in Southampton Itchen in the 2005 general election, where she won 26.8% of the vote and came second behind the incumbent Labour MP John Denham. At the 2010 general election, Drummond stood for Parliament in Portsmouth South, where she won 33.3% of the vote and came second behind the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock.

At the 2015 general election, Drummond contested Portsmouth South again, and was elected to Parliament, winning 34.8% of the vote and a majority of 5,241 over the Liberal Democrats' Gerald Vernon-Jackson. From 2015 to 2017, Drummond was a member of the Women and Equalities Committee.

Drummond campaigned to remain in the European Union in the 2016 Referendum. She stated in 2016 that the referendum result diminished and would lessen Britain's influence in Europe.

At the 2017 general election, Drummond was defeated in Portsmouth South by Labour's Stephen Morgan, coming second with 37.6% of the vote.

In October 2018, Drummond was elected Voluntary Director of the Conservative Policy Forum by the National Conservative Convention.

In November 2019, Drummond was selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Safe seat of Meon Valley to replace the retiring incumbent George Hollingbery. At the 2019 general election, she was elected as MP for Meon Valley with 64.3% of the vote and a majority of 23,555. As a consequence she stood down as the Conservative candidate for Hampshire at the 2020 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections.

Between February and September 2020 Drummond served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Anne-Marie Trevelyan as Secretary of State for International Development before becoming PPS to Thérèse Coffey at the Department for Work and Pensions. In October 2022, Drummond was appointed to the Commons Public Accounts Committee and the Education Select Committee.

As a result the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, her Meon Valley constituency was dissolved ahead of the 2024 general election, with its territory divided between several new or revised constituencies, and not forming the majority or largest segment of any new constituency. On 5 April 2023, she faced a vote of local party members to become the candidate for the new seat of Fareham and Waterlooville, which took in the largest segment (45.7%) of her dismembered Meon Valley constituency; her opponent and then Home Secretary Suella Braverman, whose Fareham constituency formed the (slight) majority of the new seat. Braverman won the vote by 77 votes to 54.

In July 2023, Drummond was selected to contest the 2024 general election as the Conservative candidate for the redrawn Winchester constituency, which had its boundaries changed to include slightly less than a quarter of Drummond's abolished Meon Valley seat. The election took place on 4 July 2024; she lost to Liberal Democrat Danny Chambers by a margin of 13,821 votes (24.2%).