Rt Hon Claire Coutinho MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy, Shadow Minister for Equalities, and Member of Parliament for East Surrey
The Rt Hon Claire Coutinho MP is Shadow Secretary of State for Energy, Shadow Minister for Equalities, and Member of Parliament for East Surrey. First elected in 2019, she was appointed to Cabinet as Energy Secretary in 2023 after serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Treasury and Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing.
Claire started her career at Merril Lynch, before leaving the City to work on poverty and opportunity at the Centre for Social Justice and in Government as a Special Adviser to Rishi Sunak. She is a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and holds an MA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Exeter College, Oxford. In 2022 she founded a charity, ‘The Friendship Project’, to tackle loneliness in her constituency.
