 | Friday, 29th November 2024 at Davenport Golf Club, Poynton
Esther McVey is a businesswoman, broadcaster and the Member of Parliament for Tatton. She also founded Blue Collar Conservatism, with the focus on championing the issues that mattered to those voters. Originally from Liverpool, Esther trained as a lawyer before working as a producer and broadcaster for the BBC, after which she established her own business and was nominated for Woman of the Year both in Cheshire and Merseyside.
In 2010 she became the first and only Conservative MP on Merseyside since 1997, and from 2012 to 2015 she joined the Government, becoming Minister for Employment and was made a Privy Counsellor. In 2017 she was elected as the MP for Tatton, and was the Deputy Chief whip, before being promoted to be the Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions. She resigned from that role when she couldn’t support the draft EU Withdrawal Agreement in November 2018.
She rejoined the Cabinet in July 2019 as Minister for Housing, serving under her third Prime Minister, before becoming a backbench MP in February 2020. In 2023, she was asked to join the Cabinet by the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak and became Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet Office and was dubbed the ‘Minister for Common Sense’.
A champion of social mobility, through her charity, ‘If Chloe Can’ Esther provides career support, inspiration and ambition for school pupils. She has written several careers books for girls and boys which have been turned into plays by the National Youth Theatre and have been performed around the country as well as in London’s West End. |
