Joanna Penn, Baroness Penn
British Conservative politician
Joanna Carolyn Penn, Baroness Penn (born 1985), known as JoJo Penn, is a British politician and political advisor. She was a baroness-in-waiting (a government whip) from March 2020 to September 2022. From November 2023 to March 2024, she was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Biography
Penn studied history and politics at the University of Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 2006. She later studied at Harvard University, completing a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree in 2015.
She served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from 2016 to 2019. In September 2019, it was announced that she would be made a Conservative Party life peer in the 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. She was created Baroness Penn, of Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond, on 10 October 2019.
Penn became the youngest member of the House of Lords when she joined the House on 21 October 2019: she was succeeded as baby of the house by Lord Harlech following the election on 14 July 2021. She made her maiden speech on 30 January 2020 during a debate on Defence, Diplomacy and Development Policy.
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