DR THERESE COFFEY, who has been the Member of Parliament for Suffolk Coastal since 2010, was re-elected at the General Election held on on 8th June 2017. She succeeded John Selwyn Gummer, who had been the MP between 1979 and 2010.

MRS THERESA MAY, MP for Maidenhead in Berkshire, became Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister in July 2016. She had been the UK's longer serving Home Secretary from 2010 until 2016.