Harriet Cross (politician)

Harriet Cross (born 1990 or 1991) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament for Gordon and Buchan since the 2024 general election.

Harriet Cross was born in Harrogate and lived in West Cork in Ireland where her mother was from before settling in Aberdeenshire. She attended Imperial College London where she studied zoology and earned a master's degree in Rural Land and Business Management and from the University of Reading. In 2018, she returned to Aberdeenshire to work as a rural surveyor and later stood as the Conservative candidate for Aberdeen Donside in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, finishing second to Jackie Dunbar.

In the 2024 UK general election, she narrowly unseated incumbent SNP member Richard Thomson. She became the first female Scottish Conservative MP since Kirstene Hair.