Vikki Slade
Vikki Slade is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Mid Dorset and North Poole since 2024. She unsuccessfully contested the same seat in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
Political career
Slade was the leader of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council from 2023 until her resignation in July 2024. She previously served as leader from the 2019 election to September 2020. She was head of the "Three Towns Alliance" coalition.She has represented Broadstone ward as a local councillor since 2011, including when the ward was part of Poole Borough Council prior to 2019.
In the 2015 general election, her campaign to succeed Annette Brooke was supported by Lord Oakeshott.
In the 2024 general election, she unseated Conservative Michael Tomlinson, who had been the Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration. After being elected she said she wouldn't have stood for a fifth time had she lost.
In Parliament, Slade was a member of the frontbench Team of Ed Davey as the party's local government spokeswoman shadowing Steve Reed, before departing the frontbench in a reshuffle and being replaced as Local Government spokeswoman by Zöe Franklin, following the Liberal Democrat Conference in Bournemouth in September 2025. Slade opposed the government's cut to the Winter Fuel Payment. In her first year in parliament, she has worked on issues such as the closure of Wareham Crossing and shoplifting in Wimborne.
In November 2025, she replaced Josh Babarinde on the Justice Select Committee.