1. Sarah Elizabeth Dines was born on 27 May 1965 and is a British Conservative Party politician who was Member of Parliament for Derbyshire Dales from 2019 to 2024.
30 Facts About Sarah Dines
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Sarah Dines served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding from October 2022 to November 2023.
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Sarah Dines served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from September to October 2022.
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Sarah Dines was born on 27 May 1965 in Billericay, and raised in Basildon.
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Sarah Dines's mother served as a Conservative councillor on Basildon District Council and subsequently on Maldon Town Council, Maldon District Council and Essex County Council.
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Sarah Dines studied at Brunel University from 1983 to 1987, and at the Inns of Court School of Law between 1987 and 1988.
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Sarah Dines is a member of Lincoln's Inn and was called to the Bar in July 1988.
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Sarah Dines worked as a family law practitioner, latterly at 3 Paper Buildings, dealing with divorce, including financial and business assets, care, adoption, international child law and child abduction and related issues.
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Sarah Dines is a member of the Family Law Bar Association and the British Academy of Forensic Sciences.
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Sarah Dines declared herself to be "passionately committed to the countryside and the environment".
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Sarah Dines stated that "people need to vote blue to be green".
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Sarah Dines is a member of the 'Vote Blue, Go Green' movement within the Conservative Party.
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In February 2020, Sarah Dines raised the issue of funding for Ashbourne's long-awaited A515 bypass, stating: "For over 100 years, in one form or another, the Ashbourne bypass in Derbyshire Dales has been endlessly discussed, debated, consulted on and promised".
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In March 2020, Sarah Dines was elected as a member of the Justice Select Committee.
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Sarah Dines spoke out in November 2020 on the "truly despicable online abuse" to which parliamentarians have been subjected, stating that "attacks on physical appearance, seems to be predominantly aimed at women MPs".
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The newspaper accused Sarah Dines of "charging the taxpayer thousands of pounds for regular stays at a four-star hotel".
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On 17 September 2021, Sarah Dines was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, alongside Andrew Griffith, in the second cabinet reshuffle of the second Johnson ministry.
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Sarah Dines's appointment was described by a senior Conservative Party MP as an 'absolutely disgraceful decision'.
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In May 2022, Sarah Dines said that some of the abuse she had received had to be dealt with by the police, and that in one case an online abuser admitted the crime of harassment and had accepted a police caution.
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In July 2022, Sarah Dines was criticised for her handling of allegations involving the then Deputy Chief Whip, Chris Pincher.
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In June 2023 Sarah Dines complained unsuccessfully to the press regulator IPSO about claims made in Matthew Parris's Notebook column in January 2023 that Boris Johnson wanted to stand for election in her own constituency of Derbyshire Dales.
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On 7 August 2023, Sarah Dines appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme speaking about the migrant crisis.
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Sarah Dines said that for "operational reasons" she could not give specific details about when the first asylum seekers would be boarding the refitted accommodation barge Bibby Stockholm but that it would be "pretty soon".
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Sarah Dines said that those coming into Britain by unauthorised means "can't expect to stay in a four-star hotel".
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Sarah Dines is a member of numerous All-Party Parliamentary Groups, including Policing and Security, Environment, Pacific Islands and Norfolk Island, Sovereign Defence Manufacturing Capability, Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Farming, Peak District, Trade and Export Promotion, Rural Business, Small and Micro Business, Caribbean, Commonwealth, Ireland and the Irish in Britain, Social Media, Women in Parliament and Endometriosis.
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Sarah Dines is a member of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly.
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Sarah Dines has a particular interest in the Armed Forces and veterans and is a member of the Armed Forces, Armed Forces Covenant and Veterans All-Party Parliamentary Groups.
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Sarah Dines is on the right of the Conservative Party and supported Liz Truss's election as leader.
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Sarah Dines is a supporter of the Blue Collar Conservatism group in Parliament, which exists to "champion working people".
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Sarah Dines's husband is David Hoile, a public relations adviser.