Andrew Sharpe

Andrew Michael Gordon Sharpe, Baron Sharpe of Epsom, (born June 1965) is an investment banker and British Conservative politician based in Surrey, who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Home Office from September 2022 to July 2024.

Career Sharpe was originally a policeman in Hong Kong between 1987 and 1991, before migrating to the UK in the early 1990s, where he began working as a merchant banker.

Sharpe was the President of the National Conservative Convention from 2017 to 2018 and was its Chairman until July 2021. Sharpe was also Vice Chair of the Policy Forum. He has worked to promote voluntary involvement in senior levels of the Conservative Party's organisation. He made his maiden speech on 16 December 2020. He was appointed to the front bench in October 2021 in Johnson's Reshuffle.

Prominently, Sharpe piloted the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 through the Lords for the Government. He became a Shadow Home Office Minister in September 2024 and later a Shadow Business Minister in November of the same year.