As the Conservative MP for Dover & Deal, Charlie works hard for us to get our fair share so we can all be better off. Charlie enjoys chatting to people at community days, speaking up for us in the House of Commons and going to Deal's Pier cafe for a good fry up with the kids.
Locally, Charlie lives on the seafront in Deal. Charlie's father used to live at Bossington, near Aylesham before he passed away. Married with two children, Charlie lived in Sandwich before moving to Deal. Charlie believes in honest expenses - so he pays for his housing, food and furniture. And he pays for this website.
Like Dover's much loved former Conservative MP, the late Peter Rees, Charlie was a tax lawyer before he was elected. This means he knows a lots about our laws (especially that we should have less of them) and a lot about tax (and he thinks we should have less of those too!). Charlie also previously worked in the pharmaceutical research industry and also set up and ran an award winning small business.
A research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and expert on tax and pensions, he is most concerned by the impact of high taxes on families - particularly for the least well off - and how Britain could and should achieve its potential as one of the richest and most prosperous countries in the World.
Most of all, Charlie cares about our community, serving our people and the nation. Charlie says his view of public life is summed up by the words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth." People who forget about the interests of constituents and what is right for the nation very rapidly lose the public trust.
The aim of this website is to tell more about what Charlie is doing, what the Conservatives stand for and to enable people to have their say and get involved. Please feel free to get in touch with your thoughts and ideas, or if you want Charlie Elphicke to help you out with a problem you have. It's really easy - just email Charlie at charlie.elphicke.mp@parliament.uk or see contact details here. You can also comment on just about every page on this website - and please do, as what you think really matters.
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Nice to see a prospective Parliamentary candidate who has had a life before politics and has started and run a small business. We desperately need politicians who have experience of both. Good luck at the General Election.
- Donna
FEWER!
- Chris
Seconded! NuLabour is full of apparatchiks who've known nothing else but politics and have never dirtied their hands with running a business. I knew Charlie when he was at Nottingham Uni in the early 90's. He was a real grafter then, and he'd get my vote now - if I lived in Dover, that is.
- DavidG
Yes Chris you are right. It should be 'fewer' laws not 'less' laws. It all depends on whether the item is single or plural. e.g. Charlie's recent photograph shows him to have less hair and fewer hairs. I presume that this means that Charlie shops in Tesco Dover (10 items or less - in spite of my regular complaint to customer services) rather than the more up-market Deal Sainsbury (fewer than 10 items). :-)
- Bob
Gee thanks! Now I really do feel old. Although I do like the Deal Sainsburys I'll have you know, as I can walk to it! :-)
- Charlie Elphicke
I would just like to say that I am 22 so this is the first general election I am voting in and you definately have my vote. You are awesome and definately good for all of us around here x
- Tascha
Congratulations on winning the Dover/Deal seat Charlie , let's hope your beloved "bosses" will back you up to keep your campaign promises
- H.H.B.
I plan to do all I can to deliver on our priorities. Obviously it won't be easy - but I am very determined. Besides we've been waiting for our fair share for some 70 years - it's high time things got done.
- Charlie Elphicke
The word 'less' has been used with countable nouns for centuries; 'fewer' came into existence in the 19th century. It is perfectly correct to use 'less' with countable nouns, although some newspapers, publishing houses etc. will have style guides insisting on 'fewer' with countable nouns. It's a question of style and register, not grammar.
- Tony
Thank you for raising the issue of childrens rights to see both of their parents after a relationship breakdown. I am in the middle of trying to get access to my children having not seen them for 18 months and have often felt like a lonely voice. The children should always come first and this is a particularly senstive topic that no party has ever taken a lead on. For so many years having put up with Blair and his cronies perched in their ivory towers it felt like no-one was listening.
- Darren
charlie People would like to meet you at a surgery, but looking through your web site there appears to be no surgery dates, do you not hold them anymore?
- keith
Keith, Surgeries are held near to every other Friday. Just contact the office if you would like a surgery.
- Charlie Elphicke