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A British barrister elected Labour MP for Finchley and Golders Green in 2024 — the seat once held by Margaret Thatcher — who was appointed HM Solicitor General for England and Wales within months of taking office, becoming one of the government's two chief law officers. She moved to Minister of State for Courts and Legal Services that December, bringing a career built on employment and public law directly into the machinery of the justice system she had spent years arguing in front of.