Arise Sir Alec

Our sitting MP – Alec Shelbrooke – has been honoured in the New Year Honours List with a knighthood. The honour was given in the resignation honours list of Liz Truss, our shortest serving Prime Minister. Sir Alec has been our sitting Conservative MP for the constituency of Elmet and Rothwell for the past fourteen years. More recently he has been leader of the UK delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.