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Karen Anne Bradley PC (née Howarth, born 12 March 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Staffordshire Moorlands since the 2010 general election. In Theresa May's first cabinet reshuffle in July 2016, Bradley was appointed as the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Before then, since February 2014, she had served as a junior Home Office minister. Earlier she had served in the Government Whips' Office since September 2012, initially as an Assistant Government Whip and, after a subsequent promotion in 2013, as a Government Whip (Junior Lord of the Treasury).
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- Early life and career
- Parliamentary career
- Personal life
- References
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Early life and career
Bradley was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Her family moved to Buxton and she was educated at the local comprehensive, Buxton Girls' School and Imperial College London, graduating with a BSc in Mathematics.
In 1991, Bradley joined Deloitte & Touche as a tax manager, and after seven years she became a senior tax manager with KPMG. In 2004 she set up business as a fiscal and economic consultant before rejoining KPMG in 2007, where she remained until her election to the House of Commons.
Bradley contested Manchester Withington at the 2005 general election, coming third. She was a member of the Conservative Party's A-List and was selected for Staffordshire Moorlands in July 2006.
Parliamentary career
After her election to Parliament in 2010, Bradley was a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee from 2010, and in May 2012 was elected co-secretary of the backbench 1922 Committee. She relinquished these positions on her appointment to the Government Whips' Office in September 2012. In February 2014, she was promoted to the Home Office as a junior minister. In July 2016 she was appointed as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in Theresa May's first cabinet.
In late November 2016, she was severely criticised for vetoing the appointment of a 'high calibre' black female candidate (Althea Efunshile, the former deputy chief of Arts Council England) as a non-executive director on the all-white board of the state-owned broadcaster, Channel 4, while confirming the appointment of the other four candidates, all white men. This action led to a letter of complaint being sent to her by a cross-party group of MPs.
Personal life
She is married to Neil Bradley. They have two sons. She is a fan of Manchester City football club.