The Baroness Sanderson of Welton | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 8 October 2019 Life Peerage | |
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Born | 24 May 1971 |
Political party | Conservative |
Elizabeth Jenny Rosemary Sanderson, Baroness Sanderson of Welton (born 24 May 1971) [1] is a British political advisor, life peer, and former journalist.
As a journalist, she worked at the Mail on Sunday for 17 years. [2] She was a special adviser and Head of Features to Prime Minister (formerly Home Secretary) Theresa May from 2014 to 2019. [3] [4] [5]
In September 2019, it was announced that she would be made a Conservative Party life peer in the 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. [6] On 8 October 2019, she was made Baroness Sanderson of Welton, of Welton in the East Riding of Yorkshire. [7] She was introduced to the House of Lords on 22 October 2019. [8] She made her maiden speech on 31 October 2019 during the Lords consideration of the Phase 1 Report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. [2]
In September 2022, she was appointed by the Government as the independent chair of an advisory panel to help develop a new strategy for public libraries. [9]