Sarah Elizabeth Dines (born 27 May 1965)[1] is a British Conservative Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Derbyshire Dales from 2019 to 2024.

[5] Her parents, Elizabeth (née Dale) and Tony Dines, were tenant farmers until their tenancy was ended and their farm was taken from them to form part of what then became Basildon new town.

[21] Dines spoke out in November 2020 on the "truly despicable online abuse" to which parliamentarians have been subjected, stating that "attacks on physical appearance, seems to be predominantly aimed at women MPs".

[22] In December 2020, the Sunday Times published an article reporting that Dines had been claiming expenses for hotel accommodation located near to her parliamentary office despite owning six properties in total, worth approximately £5 million.

The newspaper accused Dines of "charging the taxpayer thousands of pounds for regular stays at a four-star hotel".

[24] Also in March 2021, Dines was one of the Conservative MPs calling for the BBC to reconsider its decision not to play "Rule, Britannia!"

She said: "There is a false belief that things that are said on social media, that people would never dream of saying to another in person are somehow different to real life harassment and abuse – it isn't.

[32][33] Responding to these claims, Dines said these press reports were inaccurate, and that: "The conversation I had with the subject of the alleged sexual harassment on the night was aimed at securing the full facts of what had transpired and was part of a much wider discussion which led to immediate action following the events of that evening".

[34] In June 2023 Dines complained unsuccessfully to the press regulator IPSO about claims made in Matthew Parris's Notebook column in January 2023 that Boris Johnson wanted to stand for election in her own constituency of Derbyshire Dales.

She said that for "operational reasons" she could not give specific details about when the first asylum seekers would be boarding the refitted accommodation barge Bibby Stockholm but that it would be "pretty soon".

Questioned further by Mishal Husain on whether Ascension Island was a potential alternative to Rwanda she said "You wouldn't expect me to go through those discussions, they're individual cases".

Dines is a member of numerous All-Party Parliamentary Groups, including Policing and Security, Environment, Pacific Islands and Norfolk Island, Sovereign Defence Manufacturing Capability, Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Farming, Peak District, Trade and Export Promotion, Rural Business, Small and Micro Business, Caribbean, Commonwealth, Ireland and the Irish in Britain, Social Media, Women in Parliament and Endometriosis.