Darren Mott, Baron Mott
The Lord Mott | |
|---|---|
Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Lord-in-Waiting Government Whip | |
| In office 2 June 2023 – 14 November 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 19 June 2023 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Darren James Mott 15 January 1973 |
| Party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Olivia Leechman (m. 2024)[1] |
Darren James Mott, Baron Mott, OBE (born 15 January 1973)[2] is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.[3] In November 2022, he stood down as chief executive of the Conservative Party,[4] after having worked for the party for more than 30 years.[5]
Mott was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for political service.[6]
In the 2023 Special Honours, Mott was made a life peer and appointed as a lord-in-waiting and whip for the Sunak ministry in the House of Lords, alongside former MEP Kay Swinburne, on 2 June.[7] He was created Baron Mott, of Chatteris in the County of Cambridgeshire, on 19 June 2023,[8] and was introduced to the House of Lords on 22 June.[9]
In October 2024, Mott was given a paid trip to Azerbaijan by an Azerbaijani group with connections to the authoritarian regime in the country. Mott was pictured laying a wreath at the grave of Azerbaijan's dictator Heydar Aliyev.[10][11]
References
- ^ "Lord Mott OBE and Miss O. T. Leechman". Register. The Times. No. 74586. London. 7 December 2024. col. 2, p. 82.
- ^ "Darren James Mott". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ^ "Darren Mott OBE". The Conservative Party Foundation Limited. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
- ^ "Darren Mott stands down as Tory Party chief executive". Kent Online. 4 November 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
- ^ "Darren Mott stands down as Tory Party chief executive". Belfast Telegraph. 4 November 2022. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
- ^ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N13.
- ^ "Ministerial Appointments: June 2023". gov.uk. 2 June 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "No. 64094". The London Gazette. 22 June 2023. p. 12314.
- ^ "Introduction: Lord Mott". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 831. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Lords. 22 June 2023. col. 319.
- ^ Dyer, Henry; Dowsett, James (20 December 2024). "String of UK peers accepted free trips to authoritarian Azerbaijan". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ^ "Ahead of COP29, Azerbaijan Cultivated Allies in the U.K.'s House of Lords Who Praised its Leadership". OCCRP. Archived from the original on 20 December 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
External links
- Profile at UK Parliament