Laura Wyld, Baroness Wyld Explained

The Baroness Wyld
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start:26 June 2017
Life Peerage
Birth Date:13 January 1978
Party:Conservative
Alma Mater:Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Laura Lee Wyld, Baroness Wyld (born 13 January 1978) is a British communications specialist and life peer. She served as head of the Prime Minister's Appointments Unit from 2013 to 2016, and has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2017.

Wyld was educated in Newcastle upon Tyne and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where she read history.[1] She was nominated for a life peerage as part of David Cameron's Resignation Honours in 2016, but the creation of her peerage was set to be delayed until the start of the next parliamentary session.[2] She was created Baroness Wyld, of Gosforth in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, on 22 June 2017.

Notes and References

  1. https://view.publitas.com/p222-4564/sidney-sussex-annual-2016/page/102-103 'Sidney Sussex College Annual Review 2016'
  2. Web site: Resignation Peerages 2016. Cabinet Office. 4 August 2016. 29 June 2017.