CANDIDATE SELECTION: THE CHANGE NEEDED TO WIN
My journey onto the Conservative Party approved list and onwards as a Parliamentary Candidate in 2024’s General Election was brutal and baffling and was clearly not the way to put forward a winning team. This...
What is the National Conservative Convention?
I stood for the Chairmanship of the National Convention in an election held late summer of this year. I didn’t win, but I learnt a great deal and enjoyed a thoroughly worthwhile experience. But what is the National Convention, I hear you ask. Well, you’re not...
The Conservative Party: What Next?
We have just been roundly rejected by voters. Those seats we held, we fought hard for. Let’s go back to first principles. We need to rebuild, but let’s start from the beginning. Let’s define who we are. Let’s be clear about the principles we believe in. And then let’s...
Joanna has been Chair of Holborn and St Pancras Conservative Association since 2020, guiding the Association through Covid and out the other side, opposing the Leader of the Opposition and now the Prime Minister.
She ran to become Chair of the National Conservative Convention in 2024, receiving attention and coverage from the press due to her bold and outspoken campaign.
She stood for Parliament in the 2024 General Election, in Hackney South and Shoreditch.
Joanna is Chair of the Macmillan Cancer Support Annual Ball, now raising over £500k each year at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Joanna founded and chairs Conservative Friends of Neurodiversity and is Director of the Fellowship of Conservative Friends of Education.
Joanna is a member of the committee of the United and Cecil Club (a major Conservative fundraising group). She is a member of the Carlton Club.
Having graduated in Modern Languages and History from St Catharine’s College Cambridge Joanna took a PGCE at St Hilda’s College Oxford. She has been Chair of the St Catharine’s College Cambridge Alumni Society.
Joanna is a former teacher of Modern Languages. She has been been married to Martin since 1995 and they have two sons in their early twenties.