Natalie Evans, Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Evans of Bowes Park PC |
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Leader of the House of Lords Lord Privy Seal |
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Assumed office 14 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Deputy | The Earl Howe |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Stowell of Beeston |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
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Assumed office 18 September 2014 Life Peerage |
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| Born | 29 November 1975 |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | New Hall, Cambridge |
Natalie Jessica Evans, Baroness Evans of Bowes Park, PC (born 29 November 1975) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as Leader of the House of Lords. She was made a life peer in 2014.
She was educated at Rockport School, Henrietta Barnett School and at the New Hall, Cambridge, where she studied social and political sciences and graduated in 1998.
In May 2010, she stood for election to the London Borough of Haringey as a Conservative Party candidate to be one of three councillors in the Bounds Green Ward. She achieved 647 votes and was not elected.
On 5 November 2010, as Deputy Director at Policy Exchange, she introduced Theresa May at a speech about immigration hosted by Policy Exchange.
Evans was the Director of the New Schools Network from January 2013 until May 2015, where she had previously been its Chief Operating Officer from 2011. The New Schools Network is a registered charity, and supports groups who wish to set up free schools.
Previously Evans was head of policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, and deputy director of the Conservative Research Department.
She was made life peer as Baroness Evans of Bowes Park, of Bowes Park in the London Borough of Haringey, on 12 September 2014. Baroness Evans was formally introduced to the House of Lords along with Lord Cashman on 28 October 2014. She was, at the time, the youngest female peer.
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