UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Karen Bradley

Karen Anne Howarth

Born: 12 March 1970, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire

Knighted - 2024

Member of Privy Council - 15 July 2016

wife of Neil Bradley

Buxton Girls' School

Imperial College of Science and Technology, London

Tax Manager

Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (Government Whip)	7 October 2013	8 February 2014
Under Secretary of State, Home Office	8 February 2014	14 July 2016
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport	14 July 2016	2 July 2017
Secretary of State for Digital Culture, Media and Sport	2 July 2017	8 January 2018
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland	8 January 2018	24 July 2019

5 May 2005	Manchester Withington	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,919	10.46
6 May 2010	Staffordshire Moorlands	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,793	45.17
7 May 2015	Staffordshire Moorlands	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,770	51.12
8 June 2017	Staffordshire Moorlands	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,963	58.14
12 December 2019	Staffordshire Moorlands	Conservative & Unionist Party	28,192	64.58
4 July 2024	Staffordshire Moorlands	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,310	35.36