Pippa Heylings | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2024 | |
Member of Parliament for South Cambridgeshire | |
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Anthony Browne |
Majority | 10,641 (19.0%) |
Liberal Democrat portfolios | |
2024–present | Energy Security and Net Zero |
Member of South Cambridgeshire District Council for Histon and Impington | |
In office 8 May 2018 –5 September 2024 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Phillippa Frances Heylings Kingston upon Hull,England [1] |
Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Alma mater | Rhodes University |
Phillippa Frances Heylings, [2] known as Pippa Heylings,is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire since 2024. A member of the Liberal Democrats,she previously represented Histon and Impington on the South Cambridgeshire District Council from 2018 to 2024. [3]
Heylings was born in Kingston upon Hull, [1] her mother a nurse and her father a GP,and grew up with three brothers. In 1997,Heylings graduated from Rhodes University in South Africa with a master's degree in environmental education. [4]
Heylings was elected as MP for South Cambridgeshire at the 2024 general election. She won 25,704 votes (46.8%),with a majority of 10,641 over the second-placed Conservative candidate. There were six candidates and a turnout of 71%. [5] Following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies,the constituency's boundaries had changed,so that the 2024 seat was made up of parts of the previous South Cambridgeshire constituency (67.4% by area and 72.2% by population of the new seat),South East Cambridgeshire (31.9% by area and 18.8% by population) and Cambridge (0.7% by area and 9.0% by population). [6] The notional 2019 result for the new seat was a narrow Conservative win over Liberal Democrat (43.5% to 41.0%), [7] and Heylings's result in the new seat was described as a Liberal Democrat gain from the Conservatives. [5]
She gave her maiden speech on 26 July 2024, [8] and resigned her seat on the South Cambridgeshire District Council a few months later. She was later appointed as the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Energy Security and Net Zero in September 2024. [9]
In November 2024,Heylings voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill,which proposes to legalise assisted suicide,citing her reasons on her website. [10]
Heylings moved to Impington in the South Cambridgeshire District in 2012. [11] [12]