Tessa Munt

Tessa Munt
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Wells and Mendip Hills
Assumed office
5 July 2024
Preceded byJames Heappey
(Wells[a])
Majority11,121 (22.08%)
Member of Parliament
for Wells
In office
6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015
Preceded byDavid Heathcoat-Amory
Succeeded byJames Heappey
Member of Somerset Council for Wells
Assumed office
4 May 2017
Serving with Theo Butt-Philip (Since 2022)
Preceded byJohn Osman
Majority1,494 (38.7%)
Personal details
Born (1959-10-16) 16 October 1959 (age 65)
Surrey, England
Political partyLiberal Democrats (after 1997)
Other political
affiliations
Labour (mid-1990s)
Spouse
Martin Munt
(m. 1992, separated)
Children2
EducationSutton High School, London
Websitetessamunt.co.uk

Tessa Jane Munt (née Vasey) (born 16 October 1959)[3] is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Wells and Mendip Hills in Somerset, having previously been elected as the MP for Wells from 2010 to 2015 and serving as the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable.[4] As a councillor on Somerset Council, she was the executive member for Children, Families and Education from 2022 until 2023.

  1. ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – South West | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  2. ^ "South West: New Constituency Boundaries 2023". Electoral Calculus. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Tessa Munt". politics.co.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  4. ^ Tessa Munt (27 April 2017). "Tessa Munt". Libdems.org.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2017.


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