A Cambridgeshire MP has been promoted to Culture Secretary in the latest government reshuffle. Lucy Frazer, MP for South East Cambridgeshire, had been promoted to the post in the slimmed down Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Lucy Frazer is the 12th person to be appointed Culture Secretary in the past 13 years. The Sunak loyalist was previously was given a ministerial job in the Levelling Up Department when he entered No 10 in October.

Last night, Ms Frazer posted from her official Twitter account saying: "Absolutely delighted to be appointed Secretary of State at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

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"Such a critical department in Whitehall, and the home of some of the most exciting and fastest growing parts of the UK economy - so can’t wait to get stuck in."

Before being elected as the MP for South East Cambridgeshire in 2015, she previously worked as a barrister in commercial law. Born in Yorkshire in 1972, Ms Frazer studied Law at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was elected President of the Cambridge Union

The 50-year-old Remainer’s prior posts include minister in the transport and justice departments, financial secretary to the Treasury and solicitor general.

Ms Frazer worked as a barrister for more than 10 years before going into politics. She has held a number of ministerial positions since she was first elected as South East Cambridgeshire MP in May 2015.

Her most recent high-level post was as a Minister of State in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Planning. She also served as Solicitor General, Minister of State for Prisons and Probations, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice.

As the new head of DCMS, Frazer will assume responsibility for overseeing the UK's varied creative industries, including the UK’s arts industry, its museum sector and its many heritage sites. The UK's creative sector as a whole employs more than 235,000 people across the UK.

One of Frazer's key questions will be about potential reforms to the broadcaster Channel 4, and what position the government should take on the contentious Online Safety Bill.

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