Anne-Marie Trevelyan

Anne-Marie Trevelyan was elected as Conservative MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed in 2015. She first contested the constituency in 2010, reducing the Liberal Democrat MP Sir Alan Beith’s majority from 8,632 to 2,690. Five years later, she took the seat with a swing of 4.4 per cent and a majority of 4,914, and joined the Public Accounts Committee shortly after her election. She also became vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Forestry and was appointed to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. She campaigned for Leave during the 2016 referendum and has been a member of Conservatives for Britain and the European Research Group. In January 2018, she became parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Gavin Williamson, the then defence secretary. She later became PPS to the Department for Education but resigned in protest at Theresa May’s draft withdrawal agreement. In July 2019, she was appointed parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Ministry of Defence, and after her second successive increase in her parliamentary majority was appointed minister of state there. In Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit reshuffle in February 2020, Trevelyan assumed the role of secretary of state for international development. Yet seven months later her department was absorbed by the Foreign Office and she returned to the backbencehs. Not for long, however, as the BEIS rejig in January 2021 saw a change of job title for Alok Sharma and Kwasi Kwarteng, and Trevelyan became minister of state for business, energy and clean growth. She is a trustee of the Belsay Trust and former governor of Northumbria Healthcare Trust and the Berwick Academy.