Luke Hall

Born in South Gloucestershire, Luke Hall began his career in Lidl, becoming manager of their Yate store and later area manager for farmfoods. He joined the Conservative Party aged 23 and became constituency chairman in South Gloucestershire and deputy chairman of the Bristol and South Gloucestershire Conservatives. In 2013, he was nominated for the National Conservatives Excellence Awards for his local campaigning. After being selected as the Conservative candidate for Thornbury and Yate, he unseated Liberal Democrat pensions minister Steve Webb at the 2015 general election, winning by 1,495 votes. After his election he joined the Environmental Audit Committee and soon after the Work and Pensions Committee. Hall voted Remain in the 2016 referendum but has since backed government efforts to leave the EU. He was re-elected in 2017 with an increased majority of 28,008 and made a parliamentary private secretary to the ministerial team in the DfE. In a reshuffle of parliamentary private secretaries in 2018, Hall became PPS to Brandon Lewis, then Conservative chairman. In 2019, he was appointed as vice chair of the Conservative Party for candidates. In 2019, Hall was appointed parliamentary under-secretary for rough sleeping and housing. In this position, he rubbed critics and homelessness activists up the wrong way by calling for the homeless to “move in with friends and family” during the coronavirus pandemic. In September 2020, he was appointed minister of state for regional growth and local government. Hall launched the Towns Fund campaign the next month, spending over £170m on funding for seven towns across the UK.