Laura entered politics following an early career in the charity and social welfare sector, where she delivered wellbeing projects for local and national charities for older people. She was a frontline worker through the Covid 19 pandemic as a welfare manager for the Home Office's asylum contractor, where she worked with vulnerable children, victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Using this experience, Laura transitioned into politics, gaining experience in the constituency offices of Conservative Members of Parliament in Yorkshire, and was selected to stand in Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley against Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in 2024. She currently works as Head of External Affairs at a major UK infrastructure company, where she oversees political engagement in the North West of England.
Originally from Stockport, Greater Manchester, Laura has lived in various parts of Yorkshire for most of her adult life - including Selby, Wakefield, Harrogate and Sheffield. Her family has Polish and Irish heritage, and her political inspiration is her grandfather, who was a member of the Polish Resistance during Nazi occupation. Her father - an NHS dentist - died suddenly when Laura was five years old and she and her siblings were raised alone by her mother, who was a Special Educational Needs teacher and later deputy head of the local pupil referral unit in Stockport. She currently lives in Pontefract and is mother to a ten year old son.
Laura holds a Dual Honours degree in Economics and Politics from the University of Sheffield, and a postgraduate diploma in Crisis Communications from the Chartered Insitutute of Public Relations.
Laura has a range of political interests, including personal freedom and a smaller state, choice in education, welfare of Armed Forces families, better political representation for the North of England, the rights of women and girls, environmental concerns - especially soil and water quality, maternal employment and adult education.
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