First elected as the Member of Parliament for Hitchin and Harpenden in 2017 and was re-elected in 2019.
Educated at Oxford University, before entering Parliament I spent ten years in the City of London; first as a corporate lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, then moving into banking in restructuring and strategy as a Senior Executive (Vice President) at HSBC. In Parliament I have been the Chair of several cross-Party groups, including the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Renewable and Sustainable Energy and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Financial Markets & Services, as well as being the founder and Chairman of the Regulatory Reform Group, a group of leading Conservative MPs working to reform the British regulatory system.
Until the summer of 2022, I served as Conservative Party Vice Chairman and since November 2023 I have served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, trustee of several charities, with a particularly focus on creating opportunities for young people. I am father to three little boys and husband to Henrietta.
Photo credit: Photos 3-14, Penny Bird