About Tara
Tara started her career as a civil servant at the Ministry of Justice working on human rights policy. She has lived and worked in Brussels, first on secondment to the European Commission working in the private office of the Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner. She later returned to Brussels to work as a competition lawyer, after having been called to the Bar.
More recently, Tara worked at Ofcom leading multi-disciplinary teams on tech, telecoms and media policy. She helped design policy solutions for how we regulate the tech giants, the internet and digital services, while protecting British consumers and institutions like the BBC.
In 2023, she moved into politics full-time as Campaign Director for the Tunbridge Wells Liberal Democrats – for the 2024 General Election, and the borough and county elections of 2024 and 2025. She is now a senior adviser to Mike Martin MP (Tunbridge Wells) and currently his Head of Office in Parliament.
Tara joined the party to oppose Brexit and first campaigned in the 2015 General Election in Richmond Park. She has 11 years' experience fighting the Conservatives, and now Reform UK.
She's been at the heart of four parliamentary campaigns - including as Campaign Director for Mike Martin MP in 2024 - and actively involved in many others. She is currently designing the West Kent Lib Dem campaign for the new unitary authority elections in 2027.
She has been a District Councillor and an Election Agent, and a political and campaign adviser to Lib Dem Councillors. She's built several winning campaign teams, helped develop local party organisations, and worked closely with Mike Martin on fundraising for over two years, building relationships with national donors.
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The daughter of an academic economist and an NHS nurse, Tara was raised with a strong public service ethos. She had a European childhood; she grew up in Italy and went to a French school, becoming trilingual at a young age.
She studied International Relations and a Masters in Public International Law at the LSE, before being called to the Bar as an Inner Temple Scholar.
Tara and her husband Roger, a trade lawyer, met while working at the European Commission in Brussels as civil servants. They have two teenage children who are at school in Sevenoaks, where Tara also went to school when her family returned to the UK in 1997.
When she can find the time, she enjoys cross-country running, hiking and tackling assault courses for charity - most recently running with the Royal Marines at Hever Castle for Macmillan.
