Penny Mordaunt is rarely out of the news, but who is the MP? Read more on Grazia ahead of the general election.
Penny Mordaunt is rarely out of the news day to day, which is perhaps why she's often trending on Google. Now that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called a snap general election to take place on 4 July this summer, there's no doubt we will hear from the Leader of the House of Commons even more.
Yet, surely a highly visible political career didn’t warrant this much responsibility in royal proceedings. So, let's dig deeper into what's going on. Mordaunt is a Tory MP, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Privy Council. Because of her third role, which she's occupied since September 2022, she's heavily involved in royal proceedings and carried the 17th century Sword of State into Westminster Abbey as part of the coronation procession.
Before her UK political career, she spent a time working for Diabetes UK, Kensington and Chelsea Council and the Freight Transport Association.Historically, she has voted against smoking bans and taxing the rich – and for military action She voted against a banker’s bonus tax, against upped tax rates for those with income higher than £150,000 per year; she voted for reducing capital gains tax, too. Interesting that she almost always voted in support of increasing the rate of VAT, then.
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