Hamish Falconer

The Honourable
Hamish Falconer
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 July 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byThe Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Member of Parliament
for Lincoln
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byKarl McCartney
Majority8,793 (20.8 %)
Personal details
Born
Hamish Nicholas Falconer

(1985-12-20) 20 December 1985 (age 38)
Political partyLabour
Parents
Education
Websitehamishfalconer.co.uk

Hamish Nicholas Falconer (born 20 December 1985[1]) is a British Labour Party politician and former diplomat, who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln since 2024.[2] He has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan since July 2024.[3][4]

The son of Charlie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, who served as Lord Chancellor under Tony Blair, Falconer attended Westminster School and then St. John's College, Cambridge, graduating in 2008 in Human, Social and Political Science,[5] before joining the diplomatic service. Falconer worked in the UK government's Department for International Development from 2009 to 2013, and then the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until 2022.[6] His diplomatic career centred on national security and humanitarian relief, including hostage recovery.[7][8] Whilst in the Foreign Office, he spent a year at Yale University as a "World Fellow".[9]

Since leaving the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, Falconer worked as an associate fellow at the IPPR,[7] and was a Policy Fellow at the think tank Labour Together alongside standing as a candidate for Parliament.[10] [11]

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  2. ^ "Lincoln - General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Ministerial Appointments: July 2024". GOV.UK. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan) - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  5. ^ "SPS - Hamish Falconer | St John's College, University of Cambridge". www.joh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  6. ^ Rea, Ailbhe (29 June 2024). "Hamish Falconer: "We will be forming a government under much harder conditions than 1997"". New Statesman. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  7. ^ a b "Hamish Falconer". IPPR. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  8. ^ "Former Cabinet Office, Treasury and DWP civil servants among today's election candidates". Civil Service World. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Hamish Falconer – Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program". Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  10. ^ ""Greatest privilege of my life": Lincoln's Labour candidate named". The Lincolnite. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  11. ^ ""National Securonomics": National Securonomics". LabourTogether. 18 December 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2024.