Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Mott | |
Office: | Lord-in-Waiting Government Whip |
Primeminister: | Rishi Sunak |
Term Start: | 2 June 2023 |
Term End: | 14 November 2023 |
Predecessor: | The Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist |
Office2: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start2: | 19 June 2023 Life peerage |
Birth Name: | Darren James Mott |
Birth Date: | 1973 1, df=y |
Party: | Conservative |
Darren James Mott, Baron Mott, (born 15 January 1973)[1] is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.[2] In November 2022, he stood down as chief executive of the Conservative Party,[3] after having worked for the party for more than 30 years.[4]
Mott was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for political service.
In the 2023 Special Honours, Mott was made a life peer and appointed as a lord-in-waiting and whip for the Sunak ministry in the House of Lords, alongside former MEP Kay Swinburne, on 2 June.[5] He was created Baron Mott, of Chatteris in the County of Cambridgeshire, on 19 June 2023, and was introduced to the House of Lords on 22 June.[6]