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The Right Honourable The Lord McLoughlin CH Kt PC
Official portrait, 2017
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 14 July 2016 – 8 January 2018
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	Oliver Letwin
Succeeded by	David Lidington
Chairman of the Conservative Party
In office 14 July 2016 – 8 January 2018
Leader	Theresa May
Preceded by	The Lord Feldman of Elstree
Succeeded by	Brandon Lewis
Secretary of State for Transport
In office 4 September 2012 – 14 July 2016
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Justine Greening
Succeeded by	Chris Grayling
Chief Whip of the House of Commons Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
In office 12 May 2010 – 4 September 2012
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Nick Brown
Succeeded by	Andrew Mitchell
Opposition Chief Whip of the House of Commons
In office 7 December 2005 – 11 May 2010
Leader	David Cameron
Preceded by	David Maclean
Succeeded by	Nick Brown
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
In office 23 July 1996 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Liam Fox
Succeeded by	Jon Owen Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry
In office 27 May 1993 – 20 July 1994
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Edward Leigh
Succeeded by	Charles Wardle
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment
In office 14 April 1992 – 27 May 1993
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Eric Forth
Succeeded by	Ann Widdecombe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
In office 25 July 1989 – 14 April 1992
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher John Major
Preceded by	Peter Bottomley
Succeeded by	Kenneth Carlisle
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 September 2020 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Derbyshire Dales West Derbyshire (1986–2010)
In office 8 May 1986 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by	Matthew Parris
Succeeded by	Sarah Dines
Personal details
Born	Patrick Allen McLoughlin (1957-11-30) 30 November 1957 (age 66) Stafford, Staffordshire, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Lynne Newman ​ (m. 1984)​
Children	2
Alma mater	South Staffordshire College
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Patrick Allen McLoughlin, Baron McLoughlin, CH, Kt, PC (born 30 November 1957)^[1] is an English politician and the current Chief Whip, which is the same job he had in opposition. He was first elected in 1986 in a by-election as the Member of Parliament for the West Derbyshire constituency in the United Kingdom, and since 2010 for its successor, the Derbyshire Dales constituency.

He is a member of the Conservative Party. On 14 July 2016, he became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, under the new Prime Minister Theresa May. He resigned as Chairman on 8 January 2018 and was succeeded by Brandon Lewis.^[2]

McLoughlin was born in Stafford on 30 November 1957, the son and grandson of coal miners. He was educated at the Cardinal Griffin Roman Catholic School in Cannock, Staffordshire, and Staffordshire College of Agriculture at Rodbaston College.^[3] From 1974, he worked for five years as a farm worker and, after 1979, worked underground at the Littleton Colliery in Cannock. He was a member of the National Union of Mineworkers,^[4] and became an industrial representative for the National Coal Board's Western Area Marketing Department.

He was knighted in the Resignation Honours of David Cameron in 2016. In Theresa May's Resignation Honours in September 2019, he was made a Companion of Honour.

• Profile at the Conservative Party
• Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
• Current session contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Electoral history and profile at The Guardian
• Voting record at Public Whip
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
• Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
• Profile at BBC News Democracy Live

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