Andrew Murrison MP: The Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Morocco

Andrew served for 18 years as a medical officer in the Royal Navy, leaving in October 2000 as a Surgeon Commander. In 2003 he was recalled to serve in Iraq. After serving as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Westbury from 2001 to 2010, at the 2010 general election he was elected for the new seat of South West Wiltshire. In November 2003 he was appointed to the Conservative front bench as a health spokesman, transferring in July 2007 to defence. In May 2010 Andrew became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Health and was asked by the Prime Minister to review and make recommendations on health care for members of the services community.

Andrew previously served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence and Minister for International Security Strategy from September 2012 until July 2014. He then served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office from July 2014 to March 2015.

In July 2017, Murrison was elected chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. In May 2019, he was appointed Minister of State at the Department for International Development and Minister for the Middle East at the Foreign Office, a post he held until the reshuffle of February 2020. He was appointed as the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Morocco and Tunisia between 2016 and 2019 and re-appointed as Trade Envoy to Morocco in 2020.