Virginia Crosbie


Virginia Ann Crosbie is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Ynys Môn since the 2019 general election. Prior to her political career, she worked as a director at UBS and HSBC before retraining as a mathematics teacher.

Early life

Crosbie was born in Maldon, Essex, and grew up in the village of Tiptree, where her mother worked at the Tiptree Jam Factory. She attended Colchester County High School. As a teenager, she worked as a dolphin trainer at the Woburn Safari Park for Terry Nutkins's BBC children's television series Animal Magic. She studied microbiology at Queen Mary University of London before completing a diploma in management studies at the University of Westminster. After graduating, Crosbie worked for Glaxo Wellcome before becoming a pharmaceutical analyst at the bank UBS. She became a director at UBS and later at HSBC. She then retrained, and became a mathematics teacher.

Parliamentary career

Crosbie contested the Rhondda constituency as the Conservative candidate in the 2017 general election. She finished third behind the Labour Party and Plaid Cymru candidates. She then became the deputy chair of the Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham Conservatives Association, and the director of Women2Win, an organisation which campaigns for more female Conservative parliamentarians. She also worked as a senior parliamentary researcher for Basingstoke MP Maria Miller.
She was selected as the Conservative candidate for Ynys Môn on 14 November 2019. Crosbie was chosen after the former Brecon and Radnorshire MP Chris Davies, the previously selected candidate, withdrew the day before due to opposition by the local association, and other Welsh Conservatives. She was elected as MP for Ynys Môn in the 2019 general election with a majority of 1,968. The constituency had been represented by a Labour Party MP since the 2001 general election. She is the first Conservative MP to represent the seat since 1987.
In February 2020, she became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department of Health and Social Care. Crosbie has been a member of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee and Women and Equalities Committee since March 2020.

Personal life

Crosbie is married and has three children.