Tom Rutland | |
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Member of Parliament for East Worthing and Shoreham | |
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Tim Loughton |
Majority | 9,519 (19.4%) |
Member of Lambeth London Borough Council for Streatham Common and Vale | |
In office 5 May 2022 –2 May 2024 | |
Personal details | |
Born | February 1992 (age 32) |
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | Jesus College,Oxford (PPE) |
Website | Official website |
Thomas William Rutland [1] (born February 1992) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for East Worthing and Shoreham since July 2024. [2]
Rutland was born in February 1992. [3] He was educated at The Skinners' School,an all-boys grammar school in Tunbridge Wells. He read philosophy,politics,and economics (PPE) at Jesus College,Oxford between 2010 and 2013,graduating with an upper second class honours degree. [4] [5] He was Junior Common Room president at Jesus College and subsequently president of Oxford University Student Union from 2013 to 2014. [6] [7]
After university,Rutland worked on Tessa Jowell's unsuccessful 2015 campaign to be chosen as Labour's candidate for Mayor of London and then as a parliamentary researcher for Andrew Adonis,Baron Adonis,a Labour member of the House of Lords. [8] From 2015 to 2016,he was an analyst at Deloitte. [9] He then worked as an executive support officer at Tower Hamlets London Borough Council from 2016 to 2017,an as a public affairs officer at Imperial College London from 2017 to 2019. [9] [10] He has worked as a press officer for the Financial Conduct Authority,and the Prospect trade union. [11] He left Prospect in July 2024,having been elected an MP. [12]
Rutland was a councillor for Streatham Common and Vale ward on Lambeth London Borough Council from 2022 to 2024. [13] When he resigned to concentrate on becoming an MP,local website Brixton Buzz accused him of being an absentee councillor,saying that "he attracted criticism from local residents after failing to show up for his local surgeries in Lambeth." [14]
In the 2024 United Kingdom general election,Rutland was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for East Worthing and Shoreham with 22,120 votes (45.1%) and a majority of 9,519 over the second place Conservative candidate. [15] On 28 October 2024,he made his maiden speech in the House of Commons during a debate on Remembrance and Veterans. [16]
Rutland is gay, [17] and this led to his interest in politics as a teenager. [16]
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I think everyone in this place had that moment when they switched on to politics and realised the difference that it could make. For me, it was realising as a teenager that I was gay