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Pauline Latham
OBE
Official portrait, 2020
Member of Parliament
for Mid Derbyshire
In office
6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Preceded byConstituency created
Succeeded byJonathan Davies
Personal details
Born (1948-02-04) 4 February 1948 (age 76)
Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England
Political partyConservative
SpouseDerek Latham
Websitepaulinelatham.co.uk

Pauline Elizabeth Latham, OBE (born 4 February 1948)[1] is a British Conservative Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Derbyshire, serving until she stood down at the 2024 general election.

Early life

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Pauline Latham was born on 4 February 1948 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.[2] She grew up in Nottinghamshire, and her early education was at Bramcote Hills Technical Grammar School.[3][4] Latham moved to Derbyshire in 1970.[4]

Political career

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Latham was a Conservative member of Derbyshire County Council from 1987 to 1993, and was a Derby City Councillor from 1992 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2010. She held the position of Mayor of Derby during 2007/08.[5] She was also a governor of Ecclesbourne School for 12 years.[6]

Latham stood as a Conservative candidate for the 1999 European Parliament election for the East Midlands, but was not elected.[7] She again stood for the East Midlands in the 2004 European Parliament election, but was again not elected.[8]

At the 2001 general election, Latham stood as the Conservative candidate in Broxtowe, coming second with 36.7% of the vote behind the incumbent Labour MP Nick Palmer.[9]

Parliamentary career

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Latham was added to the A-List of high priority Conservative candidates created by David Cameron,[10] and she was selected as the candidate for Mid Derbyshire.[11] At the 2010 general election, Latham was elected to Parliament as MP for Mid Derbyshire with 48.3% of the vote and a majority of 11,292.[12][13]

In Parliament, she has served on the select committee for International Development.[14]

At the 2015 general election, Latham was re-elected as MP for Mid Derbyshire with an increased vote share of 52.2% and an increased majority of 12,774.[15]

Latham voted for Brexit in the 2016 referendum. She subsequently became a member of the European Research Group.[16]

In February 2017, Latham said that other governments across Europe should be looking after refugee children from Calais in their jurisdictions, not Britain. She said that refugee children were not under threat of murder, that they were in safe countries, and other governments should deal with them.[17]

At the snap 2017 general election, Latham was again re-elected, with an increased vote share of 58.6% and a decreased majority of 11,616.[18]

Latham voted for then Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement on 29 March 2019.[19] She supported Esther McVey in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election.[20]

Latham was again re-elected at the 2019 general election, with an increased vote share of 58.8% and an increased majority of 15,385.[21]

In the fifty-seventh Parliament, she sponsored the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill, which would raise the legal age for marriage from 16 to 18.[22]

Following an interim report on the connections between colonialism and properties now in the care of the National Trust, including links with historic slavery, Latham was among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph in November 2020 from the "Common Sense Group" of Conservative Parliamentarians. The letter accused the National Trust of being "coloured by cultural Marxist dogma".[23]

In March 2023, Latham announced she would stand down at the 2024 general election.[2]

Personal life

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Latham has lived in Derbyshire since 1970.[2] She is married to the architect Derek Latham.

Their son Ben died aged 44 in 2018 of an aortic dissection. She has since campaigned for greater awareness of the condition.[24]

Honours and awards

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References

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  1. ^ Brunskill, Ian (19 March 2020). The Times guide to the House of Commons 2019 : the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. HarperCollins Publishers Limited. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574.
  2. ^ a b c "Pauline Latham: Tory MP for Mid-Derbyshire to retire". BBC News. 9 March 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Pauline Latham MP". BBC News. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Joint Delegation of Whips from the Parliaments of Ghana & Kenya" (PDF). parliament.uk. p. 15.
  5. ^ "Profile: Pauline Latham". ukpolitics.telegraph.co.uk. Telegraph Website. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011.
  6. ^ "MP Pauline Latham backs University of Derby Youth Work Programme". University of Derby. 21 November 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  7. ^ "1999 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Archived from the original on 28 August 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.
  8. ^ "2004 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.
  9. ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  10. ^ "Where are the original A-Listers now? The 18 who have been selected for Conservative seats". conservativehome.blogs.com. Conservative Home.
  11. ^ "Election 2010: Mid Derbyshire". Belper News. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  12. ^ "Election 2010 | Derbyshire Mid". BBC News. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  13. ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  14. ^ "Pauline Latham". Parliament UK. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  15. ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  16. ^ Sutherland, Rachel (2 April 2019). "Derbyshire MP calls for Theresa May's resignation over Brexit shambles". Derby Telegraph. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  17. ^ O'Carroll, Lisa (23 February 2017). "Stop being sentimental about child refugees, says Tory MP". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  18. ^ "Derbyshire Mid parliamentary constituency - Election 2017" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  19. ^ "Division 395, United Kingdom from the European Union". Hansard. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  20. ^ Latham, Pauline (4 June 2019). "Pauline Latham: Why I am voting for McVey". Conservative Home.
  21. ^ "Derbyshire Mid Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  22. ^ "MP Pauline Latham's bid to criminalise child marriage under 18". BBC News. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  23. ^ "Britain's heroes". Letter to the Daily Telegraph. 9 November 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2021.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  24. ^ "Derbyshire MP shares devastating tale of son's death". Derbyshirelive. 31 March 2021.
  25. ^ "Jack Laurenson: Ukraine's Friend and Foe of the Week". KyivPost. 5 September 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
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