Sarah Bool is the Conservative MP for South Northamptonshire, having first been elected to parliament at the 2024 general election.

In the 2024 general election, Bool won 19,191 votes, representing 35.7% of the vote. The Labour Party candidate, Rufia Ashraf, received 15,504 votes (28.9%), while the Reform UK candidate, Paul Hogan, secured 8,962 votes (16.7%). Bool was duly elected with a majority of 3,687.

The South Northamptonshire constituency is located in Northamptonshire in the East Midlands. The seat, under various configurations, has historically been held by the Conservative Party.

Bool’s immediate predecessor as the MP for South Northamptonshire was Dame Andrea Leadsom of the Conservative Party.

Bool is one of 26 new Conservative MPs that entered parliament at the 2024 general election.

Political Career

Bool currently serves as a shadow parliamentary under secretary of state, jointly in the Conservative Home Office and Ministry of Justice teams, and as an opposition whip. Bool was appointed to these roles as part of the August/September 2026 shadow ministerial reshuffle, Kemi Badenoch’s second as Conservative leader.

Bool is also a member of the House of Commons environment, food and rural affairs select committee (since October 2024) – the committee responsible for scrutinising the work of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Bool previously served as a parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to the shadow Home Office team on the Conservative frontbench.

Bool is listed as a member of the all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) for diabetes, Formula 1 and motorsport, investment fraud and fairer financial services and Ireland and the Irish in Britain.

Bool delivered her maiden speech on 26 July 2024 in a debate on making Britain a clean energy superpower.

In it, she said: “South Northamptonshire is a constituency with a rich history – from Bozeat to Brackley, both of which were mentioned in the Domesday Book, and from Harpole to Deanshanger, the latter being the location of one of the 703 miracles that Thomas Becket performed, which led to his canonisation.”

She added: “I firmly believe that in all our debates we can disagree agreeably, and that was a message I advocated during my election campaign. Discussions nowadays are too polarised, too black and white, and far too hostile. We need robust debate and discussion, and we need to take the heat out of difficult issues so that we can reach the best resolution.”

Bool stood unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate for the Vauxhall constituency in the 2019 general election, placing third.

Bool has been active in the Conservative Party since childhood. She has served on the executive of the Society of Conservative Lawyers.

Political views

Leadership elections and loyalty

Tory leadership 2024: Bool supported Tom Tugendhat’s candidacy in the 2024 Conservative Party leadership election. The contest was triggered by the resignation of Rishi Sunak following the party’s defeat in the 2024 general election. Tugendhat, the then-shadow security minister, was eliminated in the third parliamentary ballot on 8 October 2024 after receiving 20 votes.

During the campaign, Bool said Tugendhat had “demonstrated a clear leadership vision”.

Brexit and Europe

Customs union vote (2025): In December 2025, Bool voted against the UK-EU Customs Union (Duty to Negotiate) Bill. The bill, introduced under the ten-minute rule procedure by Liberal Democrat Europe spokesperson Al Pinkerton, sought to mandate the government to enter into negotiations with the European Union to establish a bespoke customs union.

Assisted dying

Bool voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, better known as the assisted dying bill, at both second reading (November 2024) and third reading (June 2025).

In an April 2025 article for the House magazine, Bool said she had proposed amendments to the bill “to protect diabetics (like me) and those with anorexia from qualifying for an assisted death under the definition of terminal illness. One of these amendments to Clause 2(3) would mean that a terminal illness should not apply to those with a disability or mental health illness only.”

She added: “In a democracy, the integrity of our legislative process is not a sideshow but crucial to the end result of passing good and workable laws. When it comes to a matter as profound as assisted suicide, we cannot afford to cut corners, rush scrutiny or leave critical questions unanswered.”

Social values and conscience issues

Abortion decriminalisation (2025): Bool voted against a backbench amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that sought to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales in June 2025. The amendment, which was passed by a majority of 242 votes, removed women from the threat of prosecution for ending a pregnancy at any stage. As an issue of conscience, MPs were allowed to vote according to their personal beliefs.

Before Politics

Bool grew up in Rutland in the late 1980s. She attended English Martyrs Primary School and Stamford High School.

She read modern history at Oriel College, Oxford, and subsequently completed a law conversion course.  

Bool trained as a solicitor at Clifford Chance LLP, qualifying in 2014. She worked as an associate specialising in commercial real estate, including a period working in-house at Battersea Power Station advising on commercial property matters.

Bool later joined the law firm Forsters as an associate in 2017, remaining there until July 2024.

Personal Life

Bool’s father, Ken Bool, served as a Conservative councillor of Rutland County Council.

Sarah Bool began delivering leaflets for her father at the age of nine.

She has Type 1 diabetes.

In her 2024 maiden speech, Bool told the House: “I also want to be a champion for those with hidden disabilities, such as diabetes.

“Having myself been given the shock diagnosis of late-onset type 1 diabetes just three years ago, I understand the difficulties of adapting to life with a hidden condition. Technology has enhanced our quality of life, but it is still difficult to access that technology, and I want to help in whatever ways I can and to champion this cause, as Lady May has over the years.”

Trivia

Bool’s hobbies include ballroom and Latin dancing.