Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom is a British Conservative Party politician, who became Leader of the House of Commons on 11 June 2017. She had previously, since 14 July 2016, been Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the first May ministry. Before this, under David Cameron she had held the post of Minister of State for Energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change since 11 May 2015, and before that had been Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister under the Cameron–Clegg coalition from 9 April 2014.
