Michael James Tomlinson-Mynors[1] KC (born 1 October 1977) is a British politician and barrister who served in the Cabinet as Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration from December 2023 to July 2024.
He worked as a door tenant at 3 Paper Buildings (3PB) specialising in commercial, contract, and personal injury law.
[14] He was appointed PPS to Dominic Raab, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union on 13 November 2018.
[16] Tomlinson wrote an article in The Daily Telegraph on 16 November 2018, in which he expressed reservations about the then Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal.
[19] In February 2020, Tomlinson was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and then became Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in July 2022.
[20] In September 2022, he was appointed Solicitor General for England and Wales by Liz Truss and in October 2022 he was reappointed by Rishi Sunak.
[2] Tomlinson has two sisters and had one younger brother, Edward, who died in 2006 at the age of 24 of carbon monoxide poisoning while on a gap year in Beirut, Lebanon.