Julie Kirkbride

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name=Julie Kirkbride


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office = Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Shadow Minister for the Olympics (from 2005)
term_start =6 November 2003
term_end = 8 December 2005
leader=Michael Howard
David Cameron
predecessor = John Whittingdale
successor = Hugo Swire
constituency_MP2 = Bromsgrove
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term_start2 = 1 May 1997
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majority2 = 10,080 (21.1%)
predecessor2 = Roy Thomason
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birth_place = Halifax, West Yorkshire
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nationality = British
spouse = Andrew MacKay
party = Conservative
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alma_mater = Girton College, Cambridge
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Julie Kirkbride (born 5 June 1960, Halifax, West Yorkshire) is a British politician. She has been Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the Conservative stronghold of Bromsgrove since 1997.

Early life

Her father was a lorry driver who died when she was seven. Her mother was a secretary at Rowntree Mackintosh (now owned by Nestlé). She went to the Highlands School (now North Halifax Grammar School) in Illingworth, Halifax. She studied at Girton College, Cambridge, receiving a MA in Economics and History in 1981. From 1981-2, she worked as a journalist for the Parliamentary Weekly [http://www.housemag.co.uk House Magazine] . She went to the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California Berkeley from 1982-3. She was researcher for Yorkshire Television from 1983-6, then a producer for BBC News and Current Affairs from 1986-9, then worked as a producer at the ITN Parliamentary Unit from 1989-92. She was the political correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" from 1992-6 and social affairs editor of the "Sunday Telegraph" from 1996 until 1997.

Parliamentary career

Julie Kirkbride was the Conservative spokesman on Culture, Media and Sport from 2003 to 2004, but was replaced in a reshuffle by the party leader at that time, Michael Howard.

On 10 November 2006, it was revealed that she had previously undisclosed links with the Midlands Industrial Council, which has donated millions of pounds to the Conservative Party [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/6135858.stm] . In February 2007, she topped a Sky News list of the [http://adamboulton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/2007_top_10_mos.html top ten] most fanciable MPs.

Personal life

She was engaged to Conservative MP Stephen Milligan before his unusual death in 1994. In August 1997, she married Andrew MacKay MP, the Conservative Member for Bracknell, and they have a son, Angus Robert (born October 2000).

External links

* [http://www.juliekirkbride.com/ Julie Kirkbride] Official Website
* [http://www.conservatives.com/people/person.cfm?PersonID=5051 Conservative Party - Julie Kirkbride MP] The Official Conservative Website on Julie Kirkbride
* [http://www.bromsgrove-conservatives.org.uk/ Bromsgrove Conservatives] Constituency Homepage
* [http://www.bromsgrovecf.org.uk Bromsgrove Conservative Future] -Constituency Youth Homepage
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-2939,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Julie Kirkbride MP]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/julie_kirkbride/bromsgrove TheyWorkForYou.com - Julie Kirkbride MP]
* [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Julie_Kirkbride&mpc=Bromsgrove The Public Whip - Julie Kirkbride MP] voting record
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/102.stm BBC News - Julie Kirkbride] BBC profile
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/6135858.stm The Politics Show]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3704668.stm Interview by BBC in October 2004]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2658037.stm Discussing Page 3 of The Sun]
* [http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Society_and_Culture/Politics/Parties/Conservative/MPs/Kirkbride,_Julie/ Open Directory Project - Julie Kirkbride] directory category