Charlotte Vere, Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Charlotte Sarah Emily Vere, Baroness Vere of Norbiton is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords. She serves also as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport and was Executive Director of the Girls' Schools Association from 2013 to 2016.Education
Vere was educated at Stover School, University College London and at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.Political career
She was the Conservative candidate in the constituency of Brighton Pavilion at the 2010 general election. She finished third with 23.7 percent of the vote.
She served as a director of the No 2 AV campaign during the UK's 2011 referendum on changing its voting system, later working as Executive Director of 'Conservatives In', an unsuccessful campaign supporting a remain vote in the 2016 European Union membership referendum.
She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours and was created Baroness Vere of Norbiton, of Norbiton in the Royal London Borough of Kingston upon Thames, on 30 August 2016.
On 21 December 2016, she was appointed as a Baroness in Waiting.
She became a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport on 23 April 2019, with responsibility for:
- roads and motoring
- buses and taxis
- devolution
- housing
- light rail