Why Was Charles Walker Knighted? Who Is The MP for Waltham Cross?

Sir Charles Ashley Rupert Walker KBE is a British politician who served as chair of the House of Commons Procedure Committee from 2012 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Broxbourne in Hertfordshire since 2005.

On 1 February 2022, Walker announced he would be standing down at the next general election, saying there had been “a lot of grief and pain” in the country which meant politics had become a “pretty toxic environment”.

Walker endorsed Penny Mordaunt during the 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. He became the fifth Conservative MP to publicly call for Prime Minister Liz Truss to resign. During the government crisis on 19 October 2022, Walker called the Truss ministry ‘an absolute disgrace, expressing that he ‘had enough of talentless people… achieving ministerial position’.

Why Was Charles Walker Knighted?

Walker was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for political service, and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in Theresa May’s resignation honours on 10 September 2019, “for political and public service”.

Who Is The MP for Waltham Cross?

The Right Honourable Eleanor Laing MP.