Parliamentary career
Latham was added to the A-List of high priority Conservative candidates created by David Cameron, [10] and she was selected as the candidate for Mid Derbyshire. [11] At the 2010 general election,Latham was elected to Parliament as MP for Mid Derbyshire with 48.3% of the vote and a majority of 11,292. [12] [13]
In Parliament,she has served on the select committee for International Development. [14]
At the 2015 general election,Latham was re-elected as MP for Mid Derbyshire with an increased vote share of 52.2% and an increased majority of 12,774. [15]
Latham voted for Brexit in the 2016 referendum. She subsequently became a member of the European Research Group. [16]
In February 2017,Latham said that other governments across Europe should be looking after refugee children from Calais in their jurisdictions,not Britain. She said that refugee children were not under threat of murder,that they were in safe countries,and other governments should deal with them. [17]
At the snap 2017 general election,Latham was again re-elected,with an increased vote share of 58.6% and a decreased majority of 11,616. [18]
Latham voted for then Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement on 29 March 2019. [19] She supported Esther McVey in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election. [20]
Latham was again re-elected at the 2019 general election,with an increased vote share of 58.8% and an increased majority of 15,385. [21]
In the fifty-seventh Parliament,she sponsored the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill,which would raise the legal age for marriage from 16 to 18. [22]
Following an interim report on the connections between colonialism and properties now in the care of the National Trust,including links with historic slavery,Latham was among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph in November 2020 from the "Common Sense Group" of Conservative Parliamentarians. The letter accused the National Trust of being "coloured by cultural Marxist dogma". [23]
In March 2023,Latham announced she would stand down at the 2024 general election. [2]
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