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Vikki Slade
British politician (born 1972) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vikki Slade (born 17 December 1972) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Mid Dorset and North Poole since 2024.[1] She unsuccessfully contested the same seat in 2015, 2017 and 2019.[2]
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Slade was the leader of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council from 2023 until her resignation in July 2024.[3][4] She previously served as leader from the 2019 election to September 2020.[5] She was head of the "Three Towns Alliance" coalition.[6]
She has represented Broadstone ward as a local councillor since 2011,[7] including when the ward was part of Poole Borough Council prior to 2019.[8]
In the 2015 general election, her campaign to succeed Annette Brooke was supported by Lord Oakeshott.[9]
In the 2024 general election, she unseated Conservative Michael Tomlinson, who had been the Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration.[10] After being elected she said she wouldn't have stood for a fifth time had she lost.[11]
In Parliament, Slade was a member of the frontbench Team of Ed Davey as the party's local government spokeswoman shadowing Steve Reed,[12] before departing the frontbench in a reshuffle and being replaced as Local Government spokeswoman by Zöe Franklin, following the Liberal Democrat Conference in Bournemouth in September 2025.[13] Slade opposed the government's cut to the Winter Fuel Payment.[14] In her first year in parliament, she has worked on issues such as the closure of Wareham Crossing and shoplifting in Wimborne.[15]
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Personal life
Slade was educated at Tonbridge Grammar School.[16] She is married to Paul Slade, who is a councillor for Creekmoor ward,[17] and they have four children.[18] They have also fostered children, including unaccompanied asylum seekers, and have hosted a refugee from the War in Ukraine under the British government's Ukraine Family Scheme.[19]
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