Victoria Prentis was Attorney General for England and Wales from October 2022 until the General Election in July. Before this, Victoria was the Minister of State at DWP (Minister for Work and Welfare) and DEFRA (Minister for Farming, Fisheries and Food). She was responsible for food during the pandemic and steered through the legislation which made the greatest environmental changes for seventy years. She was elected to represent her hometown of Banbury between 2015-2024. Called to the Bar in 1995, she practiced at the Treasury Solicitor’s Department (now the Government Legal Department) from 1997 to 2014. She took a number of cases to the Supreme Court and represented parties in public inquiries. Specialisms included human rights, military and security law. She had significant management responsibilities, leading the general public law litigation team. She has worked on many of the major judicial review cases of the last thirty years.