Liam Booth-Smith, Baron Booth-Smith

The Right Honourable The Lord Booth-Smith
Official portrait, 2025

Downing Street Chief of Staff
In office 25 October 2022 – 5 July 2024
Prime Minister	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Mark Fullbrook
Succeeded by	Sue Gray
Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office February 2020 – July 2022
Chancellor	Rishi Sunak
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister
In office July 2019 – July 2020
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 21 August 2024

Personal details
Born	Liam David Scott-Smith 1986 (age 39–40) Stoke-on-Trent, England
Party	Conservative
Spouse	Olivia Oates (m. 2022)
Children	2
Alma mater	Loughborough University

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Liam David Scott Booth-Smith, Baron Booth-Smith (born 1987), is a British political adviser who served as Downing Street Chief of Staff under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from October 2022 to July 2024. He previously served as Sunak's de facto chief of staff as head of the Joint Economic Unit during his chancellorship.