Witney (UK Parliament constituency) Witney (UK Parliament constituency) Witney is a county constituency in Oxfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election, and was created for the 1983 general election. It is a safe Conservative Party seat. The constituency was represented from 2001-2016 by David Cameron, who was Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005-2016 and Prime Minister from 2010-2016. On 12 September 2016, Cameron resigned as the MP with immediate effect, triggering the 2016 Witney by-election, at which the seat was retained for the
Premiership of David Cameron became the leader, David Cameron promised a brand of "modern compassionate Conservatism" for the Conservative party. He embarked on a "hug a husky" trip to highlight the impact of climate change and consistently underlined the NHS as his priority. Under Cameron, the selection panels were banned from asking would-be-MPs about their sexuality. In government, Cameron introduced a number of policies which was traditionally opposed by the Conservative party, including: Electorally, Cameron led the Conservatives to become the largest party in the United Kingdom general election, 2010 and won an outright majority in United Kingdom general election, 2015. The UK economy