Daisy Cooper is the Liberal Democrat MP for St Albans, having first been elected to Parliament in 2019. Cooper became the first Liberal to hold the St Albans seat since 1906, gaining the seat from the Conservatives with a majority of 6,293 over the Conservative Party.
The constituency of St Albans covers the Cathedral city in Hertfordshire. It has a strong commuter population, with three fifths of the population said to be under 45. This seat was previously won by the Labour Party in its landslide years of 1945, 1997 and 2001.
Daisy Cooper has served as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats since September 2020, and is tipped as a future party leader. She previously stood unsuccessfully in 2014 for the position of President of the Liberal Democrat Party.
Born in 1981, Cooper was educated at the University of Leeds and the University of Nottingham. Before being elected to Parliament, she worked as Campaigns Director of More United. She has also served as a Director of Hacked Off, the campaign group in favour of greater press regulation. For a number of years, Cooper also worked at the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Previously a borough councillor in Lewes in Sussex, Cooper is Vice President of the Local Government Association.
In her spare time Cooper enjoys music, and plays both the violin and the piano.
She is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Chalk Streams, Climate Change, Legal Aid, and the Night Time Economy. With the real ale pressure group, CAMRA, based in St Albans, she is also Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group.
Email – cooper.mp@parliament.uk
Website –www.daisycooper.org.uk
Twitter – @libdemdaisy
