In 2005, Theresa was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Chipping Barnet. She lives in Arkley in her constituency and works hard on local campaigns.
Theresa was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in September 2012, a role she held until July 2016. In this role, she was responsible for delivering the successful G8 summit which took place in County Fermanagh in June 2013. As well as being the most peaceful G8 summit ever, the meeting delivered an international agreement aimed at ensuring that big multinational businesses pay their fair share of tax.
Theresa was part of the campaign to leave the EU and in 2019, she was one of just 27 Eurosceptic Conservative MPs to vote against Theresa May's EU Withdrawal Agreement three times because it would have kept the UK indefinitely subject to EU rules without any say over them.
Between summer 2019 and February 2020, Theresa served in Boris's first Cabinet as Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, presenting ground-breaking legislation to Parliament. That includes an Environment Bill to set demanding new targets on cleaning up air quality and protecting nature and biodiversity, as well as legislation on farming and fishing which will see the UK leave the EU's CAP and CFP and replace those programmes with a better greener alternative.
Theresa has been re-elected four times as Barnet's MP, in 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019, and keeps up a very busy programme of campaigning and engagements in her constituency.