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Andrew Iain Lewer is a British Conservative Party politician born in Burnley, Lancashire in July 1971. He represented Northampton South as Member of Parliament from 2017 until 2024, when he lost his seat to Labour's Mike Reader in the General Election. Prior to his time in Westminster, Lewer served as Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands from 2014 to 2017.
During his parliamentary career, Lewer chaired seven All Party Parliamentary Groups, demonstrating his wide-ranging policy interests across motor neurone disease, Venezuela, independent education, devolution, publishing, SME housebuilders, and the private rented sector. He brought additional expertise to housing and education policy through his membership of both the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee and the Education Select Committee. Andrew Lewer writes commentary for Comment Central.