Culture Lucy Frazer, the current Culture Secretary, will be standing once again in the Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency for the Conservatives. The change comes as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak detached the digital arm of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Frazer has been heading up a streamlined Culture, Media and Sport since a cabinet reshuffle in February 2023.
So who is Lucy Frazer? On the eve of the general election, which is taking place on July4, here’s everything to know about the Culture Secretary. Born in Yorkshire in 1972, Frazer was educated privately at Gateways School for Girls and Leeds Girls’ High School before going on to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was President of the Cambridge Union. She met her husband David Leigh, who runs a recruitment company, while at university and the couple share two children.
Frazer had a successful career as a barrister in commercial law, and was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2013 at the age of 40. She decided to go into politics because she wanted to make a difference, “I am simply someone who has been lucky in her professional career who feels it is important to contribute to society,” she said. Frazer, the Conservative MP for South East Cambridgeshire, was first elected to the position in 2015.
Since then she’s held numerous governmental positions including Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Paymaster General (2016), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (2018 to 2019), Minist.
