Shadow Minister of State for Health role for Leicestershire MP

Another Leicestershire MP has been given a role in the Conservatives' new team. Dr Luke Evans has taken on the role of Shadow Health Minister.

Dr Evans, the Member of Parliament for Hinckley and Bosworth, will work alongside Shadow Health Secretary and fellow Leicestershire MP for Melton and Syston Edward Argar. Earlier this month, it was announced that Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP Neil O’Brien would serve as shadow education minister.

He made headlines at the end of October when he claimed Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered "broken promises" in her budget speech. He said he believed it was "clear" that Labour had "deceived the public" in promising not to raise taxes.

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The MP suggested the chancellor and Labour's ideas had gone against manifesto pledges in the General Election. He claimed many people in the Hinckley and Bosworth area were worried for their future in the aftermath of the budget.

Dr Evans said: “I am delighted to accept the position of Shadow Health Minister and I'm looking forward to working with the Shadow Health team. I will continue to make representations to the Government so that we can improve healthcare both locally and nationally."

The politician trained and worked as a junior doctor in the NHS in Birmingham, qualifying in 2007, a spokesperson for the Conservative member said. From 2013 he worked as a GP before standing in the General Election in December 2019, they added.

In 2022 he was made Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Home Secretary Priti Patel, before being moved to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to assist the Secretary of State at the time, Jacob Rees-Mogg, the spokesperson said.

When Rees-Mogg went to the backbenches, Dr Evans became PPS to Grant Shapps in the Department. Dr Evans stayed with Shapps when he was made Secretary of State for the Ministry of Defence. After he was re-elected, Dr Evans was made Shadow Minister of State for Creative Industries, Media and Tourism in Rishi Sunak’s interim Shadow Cabinet, the spokesperson added.

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