Mackrory, Cherilyn

Cherilyn Mackrory is the Conservative MP for Truro and Falmouth, having first been elected to Parliament in 2019.

This area was for many years one of the most reliable Liberal strongholds in England, but after a series of boundary changes, this new seat was won by the Conservatives in 2010.  Containing a number of coastal settlements, the seat houses the University of Falmouth and a campus from Exeter university.  Unusually for a Cornish seat, a tenth of the electorate are said to be students.  The Conservatives won here in 2019 with a majority of 4,561 over the Labour Party.

Born in 1976, Cherilyn Mackrory grew up in in Scarborough and moved to Falmouth in 2011. She worked as an IT project manager in London and Bristol before being elected to Parliament. She was elected to Cornwall County Council in 2017.

Mackrory supported Brexit in the 2016 EU referendum.

A campaigner against plastics she is Vice Chair of the All Party Group on Ocean Conservation.

She is married with a daughter.

She is Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Baby Loss, having lost a baby herself, an experience which she has described publicly. She is also a a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Broadband and Digital Communication, the Celtic Sea, and Local Democracy,

Email – cherilyn.mackrory.mp@parliament.uk

Website – www.cherilynmackrory.org.uk

Twitter-@thisischerilyn