Jacques Arnold

Jacques Arnold

Jacques Arnold Arnold (born 27 August 1947) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gravesham in Kent from 1987, when he succeeded Tim Brinton, until he lost his seat in the landslide 1997 election. He is now a consultant and lecturer on Latin American Affairs, and is the author of two book series on political and genealogical subjects.

Unlike many of his fellow former Tory MPs, he refought the seat at the 2001 election - only to come second place to Labour's Chris Pond. The Tories regained the seat in 2005 with Adam Holloway becoming the MP, the first time since the 1951 that the seat had not been held by the winning party.

In 2012 he unsuccessfully stood for the Conservative nomination in the England and Wales Police and Crime Commissioner elections, 2012 for the Kent area, where he did not make the shortlist.