Education
Lefroy was educated at Highgate School, an independent school in Highgate in north London, followed by King"s College, Cambridge.
Lefroy was educated at Highgate School, an independent school in Highgate in north London, followed by King"s College, Cambridge.
Early Life and Lefroy lived and worked in the coffee industry in Tanzania between 1989 and 2000. He is a qualified chartered accountants He also founded and runs Equity for Africa, a charitable trust which seeks to alleviate poverty in a self-sustaining way by creating jobs through investing in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa.
Lefroy was one of the three Conservative Councillors for the Westlands ward of Newcastle-under-Lyme Council.
Lefroy was the Conservative Party Parliamentary candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyme in the general election of May 2005, losing to Labour"s Paul Farrelly, the sitting Member of Parliament. He polled 9,945 votes down from the 10,664 votes that the Conservatives recorded in the previous General Election representing a fall in the Conservative share of the vote from 26.7% to 25%, although this did also represent a 2.7% swing from Labour to the Conservatives as Labour lost vote share at an even faster rate. Lefroy was elected as Member of Parliament for Stafford in 2010 with a majority of 5,460 and was re-elected in the General Election of 2015 with an increased majority of 9,177.
In Parliament, he served on the Select Committee for International Development. Lefroy has described himself as a "One Nation Tory".
Since a Conservative-led joint administration with the Liberal Democrats took control from Labour in May 2006, he served as the Portfolio holder for Finance and Efficiency in the Borough.
55th United Kingdom Parliament. 56th United Kingdom Parliament.
