Margot James was elected as the Conservative MP for Stourbridge in 2010, and is Parliamentary Private Secretary to Leader of the House of Commons, William Hague. She chairs the All Party Group on Trade and Investment. Margot served as a non-executive board director of Parkside NHS Trust and is currently a governor of Redhill School and the LSE. Between 2006 and 2010, she served as Vice Chair of the Conservative Party for women. Margot spent ten years as a trustee of Abantu, an African women's charity, during which time she trained women from more than forty different African countries in communications and lobbying skills.