Charlotte Vere, Baroness Vere of Norbiton

Official portrait, 2017

Charlotte Sarah Emily Vere, Baroness Vere of Norbiton (born 9 March 1969) is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords. She serves also as Executive Director of the Girls' Schools Association.

Education

Vere was educated at University College London (BSc, 1989) and at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (MBA, 1997).[1]

Political career

She was the Conservative candidate in the constituency of Brighton Pavilion at the 2010 general election. She finished third with 23.7 percent of the vote.[2] She served as Executive Director of 'Conservatives In', an unsuccessful campaign supporting a remain vote in the 2016 European Union membership referendum.

She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours and was created Baroness Vere of Norbiton, of Norbiton in the Royal London Borough of Kingston upon Thames, on 30 August 2016.[3]

On 21 December 2016, she was appointed as a Baroness in Waiting (i.e. government whip in the House of Lords).[4]

References

  1. ↑ ‘VERE OF NORBITON’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017
  2. ↑ "Election 2010 – Brighton Pavilion". BBC News.
  3. ↑ "No. 61694". The London Gazette. 5 September 2016. p. 18840.
  4. ↑ "Ministerial appointments: 21 December 2016". 10 Downing Street. 21 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
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