Welcome to Fareham and Waterlooville, a new parliamentary constituency in Hampshire.

The Fareham and Waterlooville constituency comprises parts of the former Fareham and Meon Valley constituencies and was contested for the first time at the 4 July 2024 general election.

At that election, the seat was won by the Conservative and Unionist Party's Suella Braverman, who is best known for her "dream" of sending immigrants to Rwanda and whose rhetoric is described by Baroness Warsi (former co-Chair of the Conservative Party) as "racist".

Braverman, ironically, is herself an economic migrant having been boated into the former Fareham constituency to fulfil the relatively simple task, for a Tory, of winning a safe Tory seat. How safe a seat? So safe she doesn't even live in the constituency. Instead, she lives a two-hour drive away at her £1.2m home in Bushey, Hertfordshire (£1.2m at time of purchase in roughly July 2020; i.e., more than four times the value of properties owned by her constituents). Braverman, in effect, is both economic migrant and absentee landlord.

On 26 January 2026, Braverman defected to Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party. However, she has yet to announce when she will resign her seat to trigger a by-election, which would seem the honourable thing to do, as the electorate in Fareham and Waterlooville, when given the chance to vote for a Reform UK candidate in 2024, decisively failed to do so.

More to follow!