In 2020, she acquired right into a spat with footballer Marcus Rashford, who compelled the Tories to U-turn on their stance towards free faculty meals throughout the holidays in a high-profile marketing campaign.
Following England crashing out of the Euro 2020 finals, she apologised after suggesting he ought to have spent extra time “perfecting his recreation” moderately than “taking part in politics”.
She is the vice chair of the All Social gathering Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Ports and has additionally been a ministerial aide for defence, housing and well being and in 2015 was awarded an OBE within the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her companies to housing.
Mrs Elphicke grew up in Kent, studied on the College of Kent at Canterbury, and spent 20 years as a lawyer.
She had robustly defended her now ex-husband all through the trial in addition to following his conviction.
After his conviction, she gave an interview saying the allegations have been “false” and he had been punished for being “charming, rich, charismatic and profitable”. She additionally advised the BBC she thought the sentence was “extreme” and criticised the court docket as being “on a little bit of a mission”.
Mrs Elphicke was certainly one of 5 senior Tory MPs who improperly tried to affect the trial choose, which the Commons requirements committee later described as “egregious behaviour”, exterior that was “corrosive to the rule of regulation”.
