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Sarah Bool
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for South Northamptonshire
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byAndrea Leadsom
Majority3,687 (6.8%)
Personal details
BornSarah Anne-Marie Bool[1]
1987 or 1988 (age 37–38)[2]
PartyConservative
Alma materOriel College, Oxford
Websitewww.sarahbool.uk

Sarah Anne-Marie Bool[1] (born 1987 or 1988)[2] is a British Conservative Party politician and former solicitor who has been the Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire since the July 2024 general election.[3]

Early life and education

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Bool is the daughter of Kenneth and Maureen Bool and has two siblings. She grew up in Rutland and attended English Martyrs Primary School in Oakham and Stamford High School. Bool read Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford before completing a law conversion course at the College of Law in London[2] before embarking on her legal training. Her father, Ken Bool, was a Conservative councillor on Rutland County Council.[4]

She has Type 1 diabetes,[5] only being diagnosed aged 33. Bool called in Parliament for a paediatric screening programme for the disease in order to protect children from diabetic ketoacidosis and the risk to life this poses.[6] The topic was the subject of her first speaking opportunity at Prime Minister’s Questions.[7]

Political career

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In the 2019 general election she stood as the Conservative candidate for Vauxhall, coming third behind Labour and the Liberal Democrats.[8]

In 2024 general election she succeeded Andrea Leadsom as MP for South Northamptonshire. Bool is chair of the executive committee of the Society of Conservative Lawyers.[9]

Electoral history

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General election 2019: Vauxhall[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Florence Eshalomi 31,615 56.1 −1.2
Liberal Democrats Sarah Lewis 12,003 21.3 +0.8
Conservative Sarah Bool 9,422 16.7 −1.9
Green Jacqueline Bond 2,516 4.5 +2.5
Brexit Party Andrew McGuinness 641 1.1 New
Independent Salah Faissal 136 0.2 New
Majority 19,612 34.8 −2.0
Turnout 56,333 63.5 −3.6
Registered electors 88,659
Labour Co-op hold Swing −1.0
General election 2024: South Northamptonshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sarah Bool 19,191 35.7 −27.5
Labour Rufia Ashraf 15,504 28.9 +8.1
Reform Paul Hogan 8,962 16.7 New
Liberal Democrats Stewart Tolley 4,989 9.3 −1.8
Green Emmie Williamson 3,040 5.7 +1.9
Independent Ian McCord 1,556 2.9 New
Workers Party Mick Stott 246 0.5 New
Independent Stuart Robert 209 0.4 New
Majority 3,687 6.8 −35.6
Turnout 53,697 68.6 −4.3
Registered electors 78,233
Conservative hold Swing −17.8

References

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  1. ^ a b "Sarah Anne-marie Bool". Solicitors Regulation Authority. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  2. ^ a b c Greenwood, Darren (6 December 2019). "Former Oakham and Stamford pupil bids to be a London Conservative MP". Stamford Mercury. Archived from the original on 20 April 2025. Retrieved 27 January 2025. Sarah, 31, moved to the capital seven years ago, having read modern history at Oriel College, Oxford, and obtaining a law degree from the College of Law.
  3. ^ "South Northamptonshire results". BBC News.
  4. ^ "Agenda item - CONFERRING THE TITLE OF HONORARY ALDERMAN". www.rutland.gov.uk. 6 December 2023. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  5. ^ "About Sarah Bool". Sarah Bool. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  6. ^ "DRWF Women and Diabetes: Sarah Bool MP on type 1 diabetes diagnosis". Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  7. ^ "Prime Minister Volume 770: debated on Wednesday 2 July 2025". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 770. Commons.
  8. ^ "Vauxhall Parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Society of Conservative Lawyers". Society of Conservative Lawyers. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
  10. ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
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