Karen Bradley

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Early life and career

Bradley was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Her family migrated to Buxton, Derbyshire, and she was educated at the local comprehensive and Imperial College London, earning a BSc in mathematics.

Bradley joined Deloitte & Touche in 1991 as a tax manager, and she went on to KPMG as a senior tax manager. She began working as a fiscal and economic consultant in 2004 before returning to KPMG in 2007, where she remained until her return to the House of Commons in 2007.

Parliamentary career

Bradley defeated Manchester Withington in the 2005 general election, finishing third behind Liberal Democrats' John Leech.

Bradley was a member of the Conservative Party's A-List and was selected for Staffordshire Moorlands in July 2006. At the 2010 general election, she was elected as the constituency's representative of parliament.

Bradley served as a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee from July 2010 to October 2012, and she was elected co-secretary of the backbench 1922 Committee in May 2012.

Bradley was elected as a junior government whip in September 2012. Bradley joined the Administration Committee in December 2012, of which she was a member until March 2014. Bradley was appointed as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Preventing Abuse, Exploitation, and Crime in February 2014.

Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Bradley to the position of Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport in July 2016. Althea Efunshile, a former deputy chief of Arts Council England, was not nominated as a non-executive director on the board of the state-owned broadcaster, Channel 4. Efunshile was criticized because she was a black female candidate, while the other four candidates were all white male and were either elected or re-appointed. As a result of this intervention, a cross-party group of MPs sent her a letter of complaint. The government reported on December 12, 2017 that her replacement had been ratified.

Following James Brokenshire's departure due to poor health, Bradley was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in January 2018. She was chastised in Northern Ireland Affairs Committee for failing to take steps on British government discrimination against former soldiers and police officers in July 2018. Andrew Murrison was questioned on her account of what she had done, and she said she would write to him. "I wait and wait for letters," Sylvia Hermon wrote.

Bradley admitted in a September 2018 interview with House magazine, a weekly newspaper in the House of Commons, that she had no idea what Northern Ireland is like before being appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, for example, people who are nationalists don't vote for unionist parties and vice versa.

"The fewer than 10% [of killings] during the Troubles in Northern Ireland were not crimes, they were people who were under orders and performing their duties in a dignified and appropriate manner," Bradley said in March 2019. Several political parties in Northern Ireland had chastised this statement, and some of them had called on her to resign. A "clarification" of her remarks was released by Bradley later that day in the House of Commons, and the following day, she released an apology. Bradley was attempting to intervene in the British government's decision on whether or not to sue the soldiers involved in the incident on Sunday, according to their families.

Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson's dismissal of Bradley as Northern Ireland Secretary on his arrival in July 2019, he was fired as Northern Ireland Secretary.

Bradley was reelected in the 2019 general election with a landslide victory of 16,428 votes. On January 29, 2020, she was elected Chair of the Procedure Committee, defeating Bob Blackman to the post.

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