adam james harold holloway (born 29 july 1965) is a british conservative party politician who has been the member of parliament (mp) for gravesham since 2005.he served as government whip from september to october 2022, and as assistant government whip from july to september 2022.he currently serves on the home affairs select committee and european scrutiny committee.he was a vocal supporter of pro-brexit lobby group leave means leave.before he was a member of parliament, he served in the british army's grenadier guards for five years, serving in the gulf war and in germany.after serving in the army he was a reporter for itn and itv where he produced the award-winning programme 'no fixed abode' (1991), in which he spent three months homeless on the streets of london.he was privately educated at cranleigh school in surrey.he then spent his gap year with the afghan resistance during the soviet-afghan war.he attended magdalene college, cambridge, where he studied social and political sciences, with his degree promoted by tradition to an ma.he returned to afghanistan, visited nicaragua during the nicaraguan revolution and taught in soweto and south africa during his university summer holidays.he later completed an mba at imperial college london.he served as an armoured infantry officer in the british army on the rhine.holloway served in the gulf war as a captain in 1st battalion, grenadier guards.the grenadier guards fought in the battle of norfolk as part of the 1st armoured division.with itv, he produced an award-winning documentary series for the itv programme world in action, called 'no fixed abode' (1991).in this series he locked access to his bank account and 'slept rough' on the streets of london, for three months, in order to shed light on the difficulties experienced by the city's homeless, particularly those who are mentally ill. whilst a member of parliament in 2018, he rough slept for seven days to experience how homelessness has changed in the past three decades.in the itv serie's disguises, adam was trained by two clinical pyschiatrists and posed as a schizrophrenic in various english cities.he also went undercover as a bosnian muslim fleeing ethnic cleansing in the balkans and experienced people smuggling firsthand.with itn, holloway was their bosnian correspondent during the siege of sarajevo.holloway was also with itv's news at 10, where, as the lead investigator, he exposed a filipino child prostitution ring by posing as a paedophile.his other journalistic work includes living in the sangatte refugee camp in calais while pretending to be an economic migrant and being a war reporter in iraq alongside marie colvin of the sunday times.this was the first time since the second world war that gravesham (or its predecessor gravesend constituency) had not been held by the party of government.he delivered his maiden speech in the house of commons on 28 june 2005, praising his constituency's multicultural community and raising issues of local crime.in a 2009 report written by holloway, he described how some of the claims about iraq having weapons of mass destruction, used to support the uk government's case for war in 2003, originated from an iraqi taxi driver.particularly the claim about their ability to be 'ready to launch in 45 minutes,' which was one of the 'central planks' of the government's case.according to holloway, the unreliability of some sources was not expressed by mi6 while preparing the case for war because of pressure from downing street.while in parliament, holloway has taken a close interest in the war in afghanistan and has visited, at his own expense, about a dozen times.in 2009 he wrote a paper for the centre for policy studies titled 'in blood stepp'd in too far' which outlined the policies that he thought should be implemented during the war in afghanistan: establishing an 'honest government,' ensuring that 'tribal structures are supported, and 'maintaining low levels of allied troops.
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