Rt Hon Sir Robert Buckland KBE KC

Rt Hon Sir Robert Buckland KBE KC enjoys a distinguished career in law and public life. He is a practising barrister at Foundry Chambers and is a consultant at DAC Beachcroft. He is the Third Church Estates Commissioner and is a Visting Professor in Practice at LSE Law School, and makes regular contributions to policy debates on AI and justice, regulatory law, autism and criminal justice. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He was recently appointed by the Home Secretary as Independent Reviewer of the Murder of Sir David Amess MP. Sir Robert entered the Commons as Conservative MP for South Swindon in 2010, and during his fourteen years in Parliament, Robert served in the Conservative Governments of four Prime Ministers, becoming Solicitor General in 2014, Minister of State for Justice in 2019 and then entering the Cabinet as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice from 2019 to 2021. He returned to Cabinet as Secretary of State for Wales in 2022 and Chai