Laura Trott (politician)

Laura Trott (born 7 December 1984) is a British politician currently serving as Shadow Education Secretary since November 2024. She previously served as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from July to November 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sevenoaks since 2019. Born in Oxted, Trott attended Oxted School and later studied history and economics at the University of Oxford. She worked as a special adviser between 2009 and 2016, before becoming a partner at Portland Communications. Trott joined the Conservative Party in her teens, and was a councillor for the party on Camden London Borough Council between 2010 and 2014. She was elected to the House of Commons at the 2019 general election for Sevenoaks, becoming the first woman to represent the constituency. She was later appointed a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Department for Transport, before resigning during the July 2022 government crisis. Trott endorsed Rishi Sunak in his unsuccessful bid for party leader in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. She later endorsed his successful bid in the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, and was appointed to the government frontbench as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions in Sunak's government after he became Prime Minister in the same month. In the November 2023 cabinet reshuffle, she was promoted to the cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. After the defeat of the Conservative Party in the 2024 general election, Trott became Shadow Chief Secretary of the Treasury in Sunak's shadow cabinet.