Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Baroness Sanderson of Welton | |
Office5: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start5: | 8 October 2019 Life Peerage |
Birth Date: | 24 May 1971 |
Party: | Conservative Party |
Elizabeth Jenny Rosemary Sanderson, Baroness Sanderson of Welton (born 24 May 1971)[1] is a British political advisor, life peer, and former journalist.
As a journalist, she worked at the Mail on Sunday for 17 years. She was a special adviser and Head of Features to Prime Minister (formerly Home Secretary) Theresa May from 2014 to 2019.[2] [3] [4]
In September 2019, it was announced that she would be made a Conservative Party life peer in the 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.[5] On 8 October 2019, she was made Baroness Sanderson of Welton, of Welton in the East Riding of Yorkshire. She was introduced to the House of Lords on 22 October 2019.[6] She made her maiden speech on 31 October 2019 during the Lords consideration of the Phase 1 Report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.[7]
In September 2022, she was appointed by the Government as the independent chair of an advisory panel to help develop a new strategy for public libraries.[8]