Dover & Deal Lib Dems Annual Lunch

Our Annual Lunch take place on Saturday February 8, 2025 from 12.30 - 3pm, with speaker, Mike Martin, our recently elected MP for Tunbridge Wells.  

Mike was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tunbridge Wells in July 2024 with 43.6 per cent of the vote and a majority of 8,687 over the second-placed Conservative candidate. He is the first non-Conservative to win the constituency since it was first contested in February 1974. 

Mike describers himself as a pro-European, internationalist, "explicitly pro-green", and is in favour of a strong stance on defence. He is an ex-soldier, military strategist, and author and served multiple tours in Helmand Province during the War in Afghanistan.

He has a degree in biological sciences from the University of Oxford and a Doctor or Philosophy (PhD) degree in war studies from King's College London. which he completed in 2013 with a thesis entitled War on its Head: An Oral History of the Helmandi Conflict 1978-2012.  He is also a senior visiting research fellow at King's College London.