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Vikki Slade

Vikki Slade
MP
Member of Parliament
for Mid Dorset and North Poole
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byMichael Tomlinson
Majority1,352 (2.7%)
Leader of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
Assumed office
23 May 2023
Preceded byPhilip Broadhead
In office
21 May 2019 – 15 September 2020
Preceded bynew council
Succeeded byDrew Mellor
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Councillor for Broadstone Ward
Poole Borough Councillor for Broadstone Ward
(2011-2015,
2016-2019)
Assumed office
13 October 2016
Preceded byJoanne Tomlin
In office
5 May 2011 – 7 May 2015
Preceded byGraham Mason
Succeeded byJoanne Tomlin
Personal details
Born (1972-12-17) 17 December 1972 (age 51)
Political partyLiberal Democrats
Websitewww.middorsetlibdems.org.uk/vikki-slade

Vikki Slade (born 17 December 1972) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Mid Dorset and North Poole since 2024.[1] She unsuccessfully contested the same seat in 2015, 2017 and 2019.[2]

Slade was the leader of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council from 2023 until her resignation in July 2024.[3][4] She previously served as leader from the 2019 election to September 2020.[5] She was head of the "Three Towns Alliance" coalition.[6]

She has represented Broadstone ward as a local councillor since 2011,[7] including when the ward was part of Poole Borough Council prior to 2019.[8]

In the 2015 United Kingdom general election, her campaign to succeed Annette Brooke was supported by Lord Oakeshott.[9]

In the 2024 United Kingdom general election, she unseated Conservative Michael Tomlinson, who had been the Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration.[10] After being elected she said she wouldn't have stood for a fifth time had she lost.[11]

  1. ^ "Council leader Vikki Slade wins seat in parliament". Bournemouth Echo. 2024-07-05. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  2. ^ "Poll predicts BCP Council leader to win more than half the vote in MDNP". Bournemouth Echo. 2024-06-26. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  3. ^ "BCP Council leader Vikki Slade survives confidence vote". BBC News. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  4. ^ "BCP Council leader announces resignation". Bournemouth Echo. 2024-07-09. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
  5. ^ "BCP Council leader Vikki Slade ousted in second confidence vote loss". BBC News. 2020-09-16. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  6. ^ "New alliance to be formed at BCP Council as new leader takes over". Bournemouth Echo. 2023-05-23. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  7. ^ "BCP council to be run by coalition led by Lib Dem Vikki Slade". BBC News. 2023-05-24. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  8. ^ "Broadstone councillor Vikki Slade chosen in fight to be next Mid Dorset and Poole MP". Bournemouth Echo. 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  9. ^ Wintour, Patrick; Mason, Rowena (2015-01-22). "Nick Clegg to allow Lib Dem MPs to accept Oakeshott donations". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  10. ^ "Tories lose record number of Cabinet ministers in punishing election". www.expressandstar.com. 2024-07-05. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  11. ^ "'If I didn't win this year's election, I wouldn't have stood again'". Bournemouth Echo. 2024-07-11. Retrieved 2024-07-11.

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