Adam Holloway

Adam James Harold Holloway (born 29 July 1965) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gravesham since 2005. He served as Government Whip from September to October 2022, and as Assistant Government Whip from July to September 2022. He currently serves on the Home Affairs Select Committee and European Scrutiny Committee. He was a vocal supporter of pro-Brexit lobby group Leave Means Leave. Before he was a Member of Parliament, he served in the British Army's Grenadier Guards for five years, serving in the Gulf War and in Germany. After serving in the army he was a reporter for ITN and ITV where he produced the award-winning programme "No Fixed Abode" (1991), in which he spent three months homeless on the streets of London. Early life and education Holloway was born in Faversham, Kent, the son of the Revd Roger Holloway OBE (died 2010). He was privately educated at Cranleigh School in Surrey. He then spent his gap year with the Afghan Resistance during the Soviet-Afghan War. He attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he studied social and political sciences, with his degree promoted by tradition to an MA. He returned to Afghanistan, visited Nicaragua during the Nicaraguan Revolution and taught in Soweto and South Africa during his university summer holidays. He later completed an MBA at Imperial College London.