Geoffrey Boot

Geoffrey Boot (born 1953) is an English politician who is currently serving as a member of the House of Keys for Glenfaba & Peel. He was also mayor of Sandgate, Kent.

Prior to his election into the House of Keys, Boot was a Conservative Party councillor in the parish of Sandgate, Kent, where he served four years as chairman and for three months was their only mayor. He and his wife Suzie unsuccessfully stood in the 2007 Shepway District Council election for the Folkestone Cheriton ward.

He contested the House of Keys seat of Glenfaba in both the 2006 and 2011 Manx general elections, but the seat was retained by his opponent David Anderson in both elections. He stood in a 2015 by-election triggered by Anderson's promotion to the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man. and won the election with 424 votes. His victory by three votes was described by the Mansfield and Ashfield Chad as "the closest Manx election result since 1929". He was re-elected in the 2016 Manx general election the next year for Glenfaba's successor Glenfaba & Peel. He has been Minister for Environment, Food and Agriculture since 2016.

He has also been a parish commissioner in German.

Geoffrey George Boot was born in Nottingham in 1953 and was educated in Sussex Coast College Hastings.

He has four children with his wife Suzie, and they are the owners of Sandgate Castle, a Device Fort in Sandgate, Kent. which is now used by his property investment company, AMT South Eastern Ltd.

He is a commercial pilot and a chief flying instructor. He won the King's Cup Race three times and was a co-founder of FLYER magazine. In 2016, Boot announced that he would be downsizing his commitments.

He is a minor baron— Baron Boot of Waughton — whose arms were matriculated (enrolled) on 18 March 1999. Boot is related to the family associated with the Boots pharmaceutical chain.