Gregory Stafford's election in Farnham and Bordon in 2024 was a Conservative hold with a warning siren bolted to it. He won the new cross-county constituency with 18,951 votes, 35.7 percent of the vote and a majority of 1,349 over the Liberal Democrats. On paper, he became the first MP for a newly created seat. In practice, he inherited territory drawn from areas that had been much more comfortably Conservative and held it by a sliver. Reform took 6,217 votes and the Liberal Democrats came close enough to make the next election look dangerous rather than distant.

He was not the only Stafford in Parliament that night. His younger brother Alexander had served as Conservative MP for Rother Valley since 2019. Alexander lost his seat on 4 July 2024. Gregory won his. One family, opposite results, the same evening.

Before Parliament, Stafford was educated at St Benedict's School, a Catholic independent school, and studied Modern History at St Peter's College, Oxford. He served as an Ealing councillor from 2007 to 2024, led the Conservative group and was Leader of the Opposition on the council from 2014 to 2022. Professionally, his constituency website describes him as a former senior NHS director who contributed to reducing waiting times, improving patient care and saving billions of pounds in taxpayer money. He also helped recruit former clinicians to staff emergency hospitals during the Covid pandemic. That background gives him more substance than the average first-term MP.

His early Commons record has followed that profile. He sits on the Health and Social Care Committee and serves as an Opposition Assistant Whip. He has served on public bill committees including the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, where he registered his one rebellion against the Conservative majority in January 2025. He is a member of the Pro-Life APPG, consistent with his Catholic education, and voted against assisted dying on a free vote.

Stafford has already been reselected for the next election. That shows confidence from the local association but does not change the arithmetic. The Liberal Democrats finished 1,349 votes behind in a seat that crosses the Hampshire-Surrey boundary, exactly the kind of affluent, educated, formerly safe Conservative territory where the Lib Dems have been gaining ground since 2019. Farnham and Bordon gave Stafford entry. It did not give him comfort. His task is to turn administrative competence into visible local delivery before the constituency decides that a cautious operator is too small a prize for such a marginal seat.