UK Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace has a key role in Government – here’s what we know about the MP’s family.
Ben Wallace is a Tory MP who was promoted to the senior cabinet role of Secretary of State for Defence after Boris Johnson became Prime Minister. He was re-appointed to the position by Liz Truss and then again by Rishi Sunak on October 25, 2022.
Ben Wallace has been married to Liza Cooke since 2001
Does Ben Wallace have any children?
Ben Wallace has three children.
The cabinet minister has two sons and a daughter.
His children are kept out of the public eye and their ages are not common knowledge.
Who is Ben Wallace?
Ben Wallace was born on May 15, 1970, in Kent and went to the public school Millfield in Somerset.
He made part of the army when he trained as a cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and then joined the Scots Guards in 1991.
He was promoted to lieutenant, then captain, and was a member of the party sent to Paris to bring home the body of Princess Diana after her death on August 31, 1997.
In June 1998 he stepped down from active duty and entered the world of politics.
At first, he was a member of the Conservative Party in the Scottish Parliament in 1999 but then got elected as the MP for Lancaster and Wyre in 2005.
After the constituency was abolished in 2010, he gained the new seat of Wyre and Preston North.
He has served as a whip, the Northern Ireland Minister and is the UK’s longest serving Security Minister, from 2016 to 2019.
He supported Remain during the Brexit campaign.
Wallace became the Secretary of State for Defence on July 24, 2019.
