Lauren Sullivan

Lauren Sullivan
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Gravesham
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byAdam Holloway
Majority2,712 (6.3%)
Personal details
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
ProfessionPolitician

Lauren Sullivan is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament for Gravesham since the 2024 general election. Before being elected as a Member of Parliament, she was a scientist and a chemistry teacher.[1][2][failed verification]

Early career

Sullivan researched neglected tropical diseases under Regius Professor Michael Ferguson at the University of Dundee, specialising in African sleeping sickness.[3] She graduated from the University of Dundee with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 2012 with a doctoral thesis titled "Discovery and development of diagnostic biomarkers for human African trypanosomiasis".[4] She then worked on malaria under Jean Langhorne at the Francis Crick Institute in London, having held a Daphne Jackson fellowship. She is also qualified as a secondary school science teacher.[3]

She has served as Borough Councillor at Gravesham Borough Council and Leader of the Opposition at Kent County Council

Political career

In the 2024 General Election, Sullivan was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Gravesham with 16,623 votes (38.5%) and a majority of 2,712 over the second place Conservative candidate and incumbent, Adam Holloway.[5]

Sullivan has been a Councillor on Gravesham Borough Council since 2015. She has been a Cabinet Member since 2019 and resigned as a Cabinet Member following her election to Parliament.

Sullivan has been a Councillor on Kent County Council since 2017. Since 2021, she has been the Leader of the Opposition at Kent County Council, a position from which she resigned following her election to Parliament.

On 24 July 2024, Sullivan made her maiden speech in the House of Commons during a debate on education and opportunity.[3]

Sullivan has been criticised for her vote to cut the winter fuel allowance for pensioners. Sullivan has also been criticised for keeping her roles as a Councillor at Gravesham and Kent councils, securing the nickname three jobs Sullivan from constituents. It is believed that Sullivan will stand down from both positions for the 2025 local elections. Sullivan also received criticism for a Twitter post detailing the location of child refugees during the 2024 UK riots.

References

  1. ^ "Gravesham - General election results 2024". BBC News.
  2. ^ "New Gravesham Labour parliamentary candidate Dr Lauren Sullivan calls for General Election this year". Kent Online. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Dr Lauren Sullivan (24 July 2024). "Education and Opportunity". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 752. United Kingdom: House of Commons. col. 761–763.
  4. ^ Sullivan, Lauren (2012). Discovery and development of diagnostic biomarkers for human African trypanosomiasis (PhD thesis). University of Dundee. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  5. ^ "Gravesham results - General election results 2024". BBC News. July 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
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