Luke Taylor (politician)

Luke Alexander Taylor is a British politician. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton and Cheam since 2024.^[1] He has been a Liberal Democrat councillor on Sutton London Borough Council for Sutton West and East Cheam since 2022.^[2]

Taylor currently sits on the Liberal Democrat frontbench team as the Spokesperson for London.^[3]

Taylor grew up in rural Lincolnshire. His parents were both teachers, and his father, Neil Taylor, was a Liberal Democrat councillor in West Lindsey in Lincolnshire.^[4]

His father had taught Geography at Middlefield School in Gainsborough since 1981.^[5][6] At the school, his father took much interest in Ruth Wetton of the Castle Hills school, who was hit by a car and killed, outside Middlefield School on 1 April 1994.^[7][8][9] His father lived on Velden Way in the 1980s, then Chapman Street in the 1990s,^[10] until May 2002.^[11]

His mother Julie taught at De Aston School from 1976,^[12] becoming head of history by the early 1990s, under headmaster Tony Neal,^[13] and head of sixth form from January 1997.^[14] Both of his parents were De Aston school governors in the 1990s.

His father was a parliamentary candidate in the 1992 United Kingdom general election for Gainsborough and Horncastle.^[15]

He was educated at De Aston School in Market Rasen, with Robbie Moore (politician),^[16] and later graduated with a Master of Engineering in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2004.^[17][18]

Prior to entering Parliament Taylor works at Ricondo (Aviation Consulting), a position he left shortly after his election and for which he was paid £5,953.34 a month.^[19]

• Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Voting record at Public Whip
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
• Profile at the Liberal Democrats