Thérèse Anne Coffey is a British politician who has served as the United Kingdom’s Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since September 6, 2022. She formerly served as the Conservative Party’s Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2019 to 2022.
She went to Crosby’s St Mary’s College and Liverpool’s St Edward’s College.
Thérèse Coffey parents: Who are her father and mother?
Coffey was born in Billinge, Lancashire, on November 18, 1971, and grew up in Liverpool.
Her parents are undocumented.
She attended Somerville College in Oxford and was a member of the Oxford Union.
She subsequently went on to University College London, where she received her Ph.D. in chemistry in 1998. After graduation, Coffey worked for Mars, Incorporated in a variety of jobs, including financial director for Mars Drinks UK, before joining the BBC as a finance manager in the Property division.
In the 2005 general election, Coffey ran as the Conservative Party’s candidate for Wrexham. She received 6,079 votes (20% of the vote) and finished third.
Coffey worked as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs under Prime Minister Theresa May from 2016 to 2019, before becoming a Minister of State at the same department under Prime Minister Boris Johnson from July to September 2019.
Coffey was named Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in September 2019 after Amber Rudd resigned from Johnson’s Cabinet. Coffey endorsed Liz Truss’s candidacy to become Conservative leader after Johnson resigned in 2022.
Truss named Coffey as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and Deputy Prime Minister upon her election as Prime Minister. Coffey is the United Kingdom’s first female Deputy Prime Minister.
