Rachel Maclean, Baroness Maclean of Redditch

Rachel Helen Maclean, Baroness Maclean of Redditch (née Cooke; born 3 October 1965) is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament for Redditch in Worcestershire from 2017 to 2024, and currently serves as Director of Strategy to the Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch. A member of the Conservative Party, she previously served as Minister in the Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Transport and Home Office.

Maclean served as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid, from September 2019 until February 2020. Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed her Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport in February 2020. She then became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding from September 2021, before resigning from the position during the July 2022 government crisis. She then served under Liz Truss as Minister of State for Victims and Vulnerability from September to October 2022. She became a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party in November 2022, and in February 2023 she was appointed Housing Minister by Rishi Sunak before leaving government in the November 2023 reshuffle.