Background
Morris was born on 4 February 1967 in Nottingham.
Morris was born on 4 February 1967 in Nottingham.
Morris was educated at Nottingham High School, an independent school for boys in his home city of Nottingham, followed by the University of Birmingham, where he obtained a degree in English Literature. He then undertook Postgraduate research at the University of Oxford, where he also represented the University at cricket, ending up with a first class batting average of 12. He later studied at Cranfield School of Management, from which he obtained an Master of Business Administration.
He has served on the Communities and Local Government Select Committee since his election. Before becoming involved in politics in Halesowen and Rowley Regis, Morris had a successful career as a small businessman specialising in computer software. In 2003 he founded Mind the Gap, an independent campaign to promote civic action and to encourage more grass roots involvement in politics.
In 2004 he wrote a pamphlet entitled - Change Starts Small - which explored how to get more local grass roots involvement in politics and argued that the British political system needed fundamental change.
Morris is married to Anna and they have two young children. Political career He was selected as the seat"s Conservative candidate after previous candidate Nigel Hastilow stepped down in November 2007 following Hastilow"s controversial remarks claiming that warnings of "rivers of blood" by Enoch Powell in 1968 had been proven correct.
He served on the Communities and Local Government Committee between 2010 and 2014. In March 2011, the Sunday Mercury confirmed that Morris had the best attendance record of all 57 West Midlands MPs – attending 96% of votes.
In the local area, Morris has been a supporter of the successful campaign to Save Rowley Hospital which secured and maintained in-patient facilities at the hospital.
He has also raised questions over the future for Halesowen Abbey in Parliament. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Esther McVey but resigned his position in January 2015 in order to vote for a change in the law that would require planning permission to demolish or change the use of local publications
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He is a member of a number of APPGs, including Youth Affairs, United Nations and Mental Health.
