Laura Trott

**Laura Trott**  (born 7 December 1984) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Shadow Education Secretary since November 2024. Before, she was the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Trott was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sevenoaks at the 2019 general election.

Trott was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions until November 2023, when she was named the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in a cabinet reshuffle during the Rishi Sunak ministry. In November 2024, she was named Shadow Education Secretary under the shadow cabinet of Kemi Badenoch.

## Early career

Trott was a Conservative Party Councillor for Frognal and Fitzjohns on Camden London Borough Council between 2010 and 2014.

In January 2009, she became a political adviser for the Conservatives, before becoming a special adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron's advisor Francis Maude in May 2010. She was then made a political adviser for Prime Minister Cameron. Trott helped create her party's tax-free childcare policy.

After the 2015 general election, Trott was made director of strategic communication. In 2016, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in Cameron's Resignation Honours for her political and public service. After the election of Prime Minister Theresa May, she left government service.

## Parliamentary career

Trott was selected as the Conservative candidate for Sevenoaks in Kent on 10 November 2019. At the 2019 general election, Trott was elected as MP for Sevenoaks with a majority of 20,818 and 60.7% of the vote. Trott is the first woman to represent the constituency in its 134 year history.

In February 2020, Trott presented her Private Member's Bill, which was to stop access to botulinum toxin and filler cosmetic surgery for people under 18. It became law in October 2021.

Trott was a member of the Health and Social Care Select Committee between March 2020 and November 2022.

In July 2022, after the resignations of Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid from the Boris Johnson ministry, Trott resigned as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department for Transport. Two days later, after Johnson's resignation as Conservative Party leader, she supported Sunak's first campaign to replace him in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. She also supported his successful campaign to replace Liz Truss in the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election.

Trott was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions on 27 October 2022.

In November 2023, Trott was promoted to Chief Secretary to the Treasury during Sunak's second cabinet reshuffle.

She was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council on 13 December 2023 at Buckingham Palace. This gave her the honorific prefix "_The Right Honourable_" for life.

After the 2024 general election, Trott was appointed Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the Shadow Cabinet of Rishi Sunak.

Trott endorsed the campaign of Kemi Badenoch in the 2024 Conservative Party leadership election. After Badenoch won the election, Trott was became the Shadow Secretary of State for Education in November 2024.

## Personal life

Laura Trott was born on 7 December 1984  in Oxted, Surrey. She studied at Oxted School. She then studied history and economics at the University of Oxford. Trott joined the Conservative Party when she was a teenager and said that former prime minister John Major is an insperation.

Trott is married to Bahador "Bids" Mahvelati. They have one daughter and twin sons.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **image**: Laura Trott Official Cabinet Portrait, November 2023 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2023
- **office**: Shadow Secretary of State for Education
- **leader**: Kemi Badenoch
- **term start**: 4 November 2024
- **predecessor**: Damian Hinds
- **office1**: Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
- **leader1**: Rishi Sunak
- **predecessor1**: Darren Jones
- **successor1**: Richard Fuller (Conservative politician), Richard Fuller
- **term start1**: 8 July 2024
- **term end1**: 4 November 2024
- **office2**: Chief Secretary to the Treasury
- **term start2**: 13 November 2023
- **term end2**: 5 July 2024
- **primeminister2**: Rishi Sunak
- **predecessor2**: John Glen (politician), John Glen
- **successor2**: Darren Jones
- **office3**: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions
- **term start3**: 27 October 2022
- **term end3**: 13 November 2023
- **primeminister3**: Rishi Sunak
- **predecessor3**: Alex Burghart
- **successor3**: Paul Maynard
- **office4**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
for Sevenoaks (UK Parliament constituency), Sevenoaks
- **term start4**: 12 December 2019
- **majority4**: 5,440 (10.9%)
- **predecessor4**: Michael Fallon
- **name**: Laura Trott
- **birth name**: Laura Trott
- **birth place**: Oxted, Surrey, England
- **party**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative
- **spouse**: Bahador Mahvelati
- **children**: 3
- **education**: Oxted School
- **alma mater**: University of Oxford