Lucy Frazer was first elected as the Conservative MP for South East Cambridgeshire in 2015 being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 11,490.
The South East Cambridgeshire constituency covers a rural belt between Cambridge and Newmarket. It contains the small cathedral city of Ely alongside a number of affluent villages such as Waterbeach, Fulbourn, and Burwell dotted amongst the Cambridgeshire countryside. Many of the local population commute into Cambridge to work. This constituency has supported the Conservatives ever since it was first created, and was once represented in Parliament by the former Conservative Foreign Secretary, Frances Pym.
Lucy Frazer was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport in February 2023.
She previously served as Minister of State in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Minister of State for Transport in September and October 2022, Financial Secretary to the Treasury between September 2021 and September 2022. She was Minister of State for Prisons and Probation between 2019 and 2021, being appointed Solicitor General in 2021 following Suella Braverman”s maternity leave. She was previously the Under Secretary of State for Justice between 2018 and 2019.
Before being elected to Westminster, Frazer worked as a barrister in commercial law and became a QC at the age 40.
She was previously described by Michael Gove as “one of the future stars of the Conservative Party”.
She supported Remain in the 2016 EU referendum, and backed Boris Johnson in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election.
Born in 1972, Lucy Frazer studied law at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was President of the Cambridge Union Society.
Frazer is married with two children. In 2021, she described how her father had died from Covid 19.
Email: lucy.frazer.mp@parliament.uk
Personal Website: http://www.lucyfrazer.org.uk/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/FrazerLucy
