Ian Sollom

Ian Sollom
MP
Ian Sollom MP
	Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament; for St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 4 July 2024
Preceded by	Constituency established
Majority	4,648 (8.7%)
Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Universities and Skills
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 18 September 2024
Leader	Ed Davey
Member of South Cambridgeshire District Council for Harston and Comberton
	In office; 7 May 2018 – 9 May 2022
Personal details
Born	Ian Fraser Sollom
Party	Liberal Democrats
Alma mater	St Hugh's College, Oxford (MPhys); Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD);
Academic background
Thesis	Bayesian Analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background Beyond the Concordance Model (2010)

Ian Fraser Sollom is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire since the 2024 general election.^[1]

Early life

Sollom grew up in rural Shropshire, and was educated at a local comprehensive school^[2] before attending sixth form at King Edward VI College, Stourbridge. He gained a Master of Physics (MPhys) degree from St Hugh's College, Oxford,^[3] followed by a PhD in cosmology from Trinity College, Cambridge.

Career

Before being elected to Parliament, Sollom worked as a business consultant in the energy sector, and served as a Liberal Democrat councillor on South Cambridgeshire District Council for Harston and Comberton from 2018 to 2022.^[4]^[5] He was the Liberal Democrats' parliamentary candidate for South Cambridgeshire in the 2019 general election, coming second with 42 per cent of the vote.^[6]

Sollom was elected as the Member of Parliament for the constituency of St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire in the 2024 general election, with 19,517 votes (36.9% of the vote) and a majority of 4,648 over second-placed candidate Anthony Browne, a Conservative. St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire was a new constituency created by the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies—Browne was the incumbent MP for South Cambridgeshire, parts of which were removed to create the new seat. Sollom's victory represented a nominal Liberal Democrat gain from the Conservatives, in line with the massive swing away from the Conservatives nationwide.

Personal life

Sollom is married to Bec. The couple first moved to Cambridge to pursue postgraduate studies in 2005. Their son, Erik, was born in 2012, and the family now live in St Neots.^[7]