Stephen Dorrell

Personal detailsBorn (1952-03-25) 25 March 1952
PartyLiberal Democrats (2019–present)Conservative (before 2019)
Change UK (2019)SpousePenelope TaylorEducationBrasenose College, OxfordWebsiteOfficial website

Stephen James Dorrell (born 25 March 1952) is a British politician. He served as the ConservativeMember of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough between 1979 and 1997 and then for Charnwood from 1997 to 2015, before joining the Liberal Democrats in 2019.

Dorrell most recently served for four years as Chairman of the House of CommonsHealth Select Committee from 2010 to 2014. In the 1990s he was a full member of John Major's Cabinet for almost three years, whilst serving as both Secretary of State for National Heritage and then Secretary of State for Health until the 1997 general election. He did not contest the 2015 general election and retired from the House of Commons. Returning to politics in 2019, he left the Conservatives and stood as a Change UK candidate at the 2019 European Parliament election. After failing to be elected, he defected to the Liberal Democrats and was the unsuccessful Liberal Democrat candidate for Buckingham in the 2019 general election.