| Gideon Amos | |
| Parliament: | United Kingdom |
| Constituency Mp: | Taunton and Wellington |
| Term Start: | 4 July 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Constituency established |
| Majority: | 11,939 (23.7%) |
| Birth Name: | Gideon John Amos |
| Party: | Liberal Democrats |
| Children: | 4 |
| Alma Mater: | Oxford Brookes University |
Gideon John Amos is a British politician, architect, and urban designer. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton and Wellington since 2024. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he gained the seat from Rebecca Pow of the Conservative Party with a majority of 11,989 in the 2024 United Kingdom General Election.
Amos grew up in Somerset.[1] [2] He attended Wells Cathedral School and studied architecture at Oxford Polytechnic (later Oxford Brookes University).[3] Amos served as a member of the Territorial Army and has been an inspector and helper with the Army Cadet Force.[4]
After qualifying as an urban designer and a chartered architect, Amos designed and managed housing and listed-building developments in the private sector.[5] was appointed a development designer at Atkins in 1994. He became a director of Planning Aid for London in 1997 and was appointed the chief executive of the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) in 2000.[6] Amos sat on advisory groups for planning and eco-development at the Department for Communities and Local Government. He left the TCPA in 2010 to become a commissioner at the new Infrastructure Planning Commission.[7]
Amos worked on infrastructure planning as a civil servant at the Planning Inspectorate for five years, and co-founded Amos Ellis Consulting, a planning consultancy, in 2015.[8] [9] He has served as a council member at the National Infrastructure Planning Association.[10]
In the 2009 New Year Honours, Amos was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to sustainable development.
Amos was a Liberal Democrat member of Oxford City Council for the ward of Central from 1992 to 1996, serving on a planning committee.[11]
In the 2017 and 2019 general elections, Amos stood for election to Parliament in Taunton Deane, finishing in second place to Rebecca Pow of the Conservative Party on both occasions.[12] He defeated Pow in the new constituency of Taunton and Wellington at the 2024 general election, achieving 48.4 per cent of the vote and a majority of 11,939.[13]
Amos lives in Taunton with his wife Caroline and their four children.