Laura Rose Farris (née McNair-Wilson; born 13 June 1978) is a British
Conservative
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politician who has been the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Newbury since the
2019 general election. Prior to her parliamentary career, she worked as a journalist and later as a barrister.
Early life
Farris was born and grew up in
Bucklebury,
West Berkshire
West Berkshire is a local government district in Berkshire, England, administered from Newbury by West Berkshire Council.
History
The district of Newbury was formed on 1 April 1974, as a merger of the borough of Newbury, Bradfield Rural Distric ...
, England.
Both her father
Michael McNair-Wilson and uncle
Patrick McNair-Wilson
Sir Patrick Michael Ernest David McNair-Wilson (born 28 May 1929) is a British former Conservative Member of Parliament and consultant.
Early life and career
McNair-Wilson is the son of Dr Robert McNair-Wilson. He was educated at Eton College a ...
were Conservative MPs. She studied
philosophy, politics and economics at
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
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, graduating in 2000 with an upper second class degree.
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when she was a United States Senator for New York.
She qualified as a barrister in 2007, practising mainly in employment law. Farris was appointed to the panel of counsel operated by the
in 2015.