The Lord Mott | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2023 | |
| 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 Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 19 June 2023 Life peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Darren James Mott 15 January 1973 |
| Political 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]
