About Adam Holloway
Adam James Harold Holloway (born 29 July 1965) is a British politician and military veteran who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gravesham from 2005 until 2024. He resigned from the Conservative Party in 2025 to join Reform UK. A staunch supporter of pro-Brexit lobby group Leave Means Leave, Holloway was elected to the Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee and European Scrutiny Committee. Appointed as Assistant Government Whip in July 2022 by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he was promoted Government Whip from September to October 2022. A former British Army Captain, Holloway was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards (1987–92) and served on attachment to the SAS during the First Gulf War. Producer of the World in Action award-winning programme No Fixed Abode (1991) after just three months' experiencing homelessness on the streets of London, Holloway established himself in undercover journalism becoming a television broadcaster with ITN/ITV and Sky News before entering parliament at the 2005 general election by unseating Labour's Chris Pond. == Early life and education == Scion of a West Country family, including collateral ancestor Admiral John Holloway, he was born in 1965 at Faversham in Kent to Roger Holloway and Anne Matthews née Alsop. After attending Cranleigh School in Surrey, Holloway spent his gap year with the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War. He then went up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read social and political sciences, graduating BA (proceeding MA). As an undergraduate Holloway spent his summer holidays revisiting Afghanistan then witnessing the Nicaraguan Revolution before teaching at Soweto, South Africa. Holloway later pursued further studies at Imperial College London, being awarded MBA. == Military career == After Cambridge, Holloway entered RMA Sandhurst and in 1987 was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.
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