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Dame Andrea Leadsom | |
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 Official portrait, 2020 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health, Start for Life and Primary Care | |
| In office 13 November 2023 – 5 July 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | Neil O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Gwynne |
| Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | |
| In office 24 July 2019 – 13 February 2020 | |
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
| Preceded by | Greg Clark |
| Succeeded by | Alok Sharma |
| In office 11 June 2017 – 22 May 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | David Lidington |
| Succeeded by | Mel Stride |
| Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | |
| In office 14 July 2016 – 11 June 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Liz Truss |
| Succeeded by | Michael Gove |
| Minister of State for Energy | |
| In office 11 May 2015 – 14 July 2016 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Matt Hancock |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Neville-Rolfe |
| Economic Secretary to the Treasury | |
| In office 9 April 2014 – 11 May 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Nicky Morgan |
| Succeeded by | Harriett Baldwin |
| In office 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Sarah Bool |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Andrea Jacqueline Salmon 13 May 1963 Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse |
Ben Leadsom (m. 1993) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Tonbridge Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of Warwick |
Dame Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom DBE (/ˈlɛdsəm/;[1] née Salmon; born 13 May 1963) is a British politician who served in various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak between 2014 and 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Northamptonshire from 2010 to 2024.[2][3] Leadsom served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2016 to 2017, Leader of the House of Commons from 2017 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2019 to 2020. She has twice run to become Leader of the Conservative Party, in 2016 and 2019.
Leadsom was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1963. After graduating with a degree in political science at the University of Warwick, she began a career in finance including working as Institutional Banking Director at Barclays,[4] and later as Senior Investment Officer and Head of Corporate Governance at Invesco Perpetual.[5] She was elected to the House of Commons at the 2010 general election. She served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister from 2014 to 2015[6] and Minister of State for Energy from 2015 to 2016. Leadsom was a prominent member of the Leave campaign during the 2016 referendum on EU membership, and gained standing in TV debates.[7]
Upon David Cameron's resignation, Leadsom became one of five candidates in the 2016 Conservative Party leadership election. In the second round of voting by MPs, she came second to Theresa May.[8] May appointed Leadsom as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in which position she served from 2016 to 2017. Following the snap 2017 general election, Leadsom was appointed Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council. On 22 May 2019, she resigned in protest at May's Brexit strategy. Two days later, May announced her resignation as party leader, taking effect on 7 June.[9] Leadsom stood as a candidate to succeed May as leader of the Conservative Party in June 2019 but was eliminated in the first round of voting, finishing 8th out of 10 candidates with 11 votes.[10]
Upon the appointment of Boris Johnson as prime minister, Leadsom was appointed Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. She left the Cabinet in the 2020 cabinet reshuffle and remained in the House of Commons as a backbencher, until 2023 when she returned to the frontbench as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health, Start for Life and Primary Care under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Leadsom announced that she would stand down from parliament at the 2024 general election.
- ^ Anna Firth (29 April 2016). "Andrea Leadsom on Newsnight". Archived from the original on 7 July 2016 – via YouTube.
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- ^ "Andrea Leadsom Institutional Banking Director" (PDF).
- ^ Mackintosh, James (8 July 2016). "Leadsom's Résumé Controversy Overblown, Her Former Supervisor Says". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
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- ^ "Who is Conservative leadership contender Andrea Leadsom?". 30 June 2016. Archived from the original on 10 July 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
- ^ Bulman, May (11 July 2016). "Andrea Leadsom quits Tory leadership contest". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 11 July 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
- ^ "Latest as May makes statement outside No 10". BBC News. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ "Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey out of race to be Tory leader". The Guardian. 13 June 2019.