Chris Philp

Chris Philp
Official portrait, 2020
Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire
Assumed office
26 October 2022
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byJeremy Quin
Minister for the Cabinet Office
Paymaster General
In office
14 October 2022 – 25 October 2022
Prime MinisterLiz Truss
Preceded byEdward Argar
Succeeded byJeremy Quin
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
6 September 2022 – 14 October 2022
Prime MinisterLiz Truss
Preceded bySimon Clarke
Succeeded byEdward Argar
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy
In office
16 September 2021 – 7 July 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byMatt Warman
Succeeded byDamian Collins
Minister for London
In office
18 December 2019 – 13 February 2020
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byNick Hurd
Succeeded byPaul Scully
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts[a]
In office
10 September 2019 – 16 September 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byEdward Argar
Succeeded byTom Pursglove
Member of Parliament
for Croydon South
In office
7 May 2015 – 30 May 2024
Preceded byRichard Ottaway
Succeeded byTBC
Majority12,339 (20.8%)
Camden Borough Councillor
for Gospel Oak
In office
4 May 2006 – 6 May 2010
Preceded byRaj Chada
Succeeded byTheo Blackwell
Personal details
Born (1976-07-06) 6 July 1976 (age 47)
West Wickham, London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Elizabeth Philp
(m. 2009)
Children2
Alma materUniversity College, Oxford
Websitewww.chrisphilp.com

Christopher Ian Brian Mynott Philp[1] (born 6 July 1976) is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire since October 2022.[2] He previously served in Liz Truss's cabinet from September to October 2022 as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon South from 2015 to 2024.

In August 2019, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid. In September 2019, he was appointed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice and in February 2020 at the Home Office. He was also briefly the Minister for London from December 2019 to February 2020. He was moved to the position of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy by Johnson in the September 2021 reshuffle. He resigned from this post during the July 2022 government crisis.

After Johnson resigned in July 2022, Philp supported Liz Truss’s bid to become Conservative leader. Following Truss's appointment as Prime Minister, she promoted Philp to the cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in September 2022. In October 2022, when Kwasi Kwarteng was dismissed as Chancellor as a result of his "mini-budget", Philp was demoted to Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General.[3] After Rishi Sunak succeeded Truss as Prime Minister, Philp was demoted from the cabinet and became a Home Office minister.


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  1. ^ "Election of a Member of Parliament for Croydon South" (PDF). Croydon.gov.uk. 7 May 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Ministerial Appointments commencing: 25 October 2022". GOV.UK. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Treasury chief secretary Chris Philp moved aside and replaced by Edward Argar amid economic chaos". Sky News. 14 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.

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