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Lorraine fulbrook biography

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Laura Sandys will not be the last of the Tory women elected to the Commons in 2010 who steps down after serving only one term. A woman who knows many of these MPs well reckons another five or six could well decide to call it a day in 2015.

Sandys herself, who announced on Monday that because of “growing personal responsibilities” to her family she will not be standing again in South Thanet, was preceded by two other women who decided to leave the Commons. Lorraine Fullbrook announced in September that she will be standing down from South Ribble, which she won in 2010 having first contested the seat in 2005: “By May 2015, I will have given 12 years of my life to winning and serving this seat. That is long enough…”

And Louise Mensch announced in August 2012 that she was standing down immediately as MP for Corby in order to go and live with her new husband in New York. She wrote an apologetic letter to David Cameron: “I am very sorry that despite my best efforts, I have been unable to make the balancing act work for our family.” Voters dislike being deserted by their MP

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Who is Lorraine Fullbrook?

Lorraine Fullbrook is a British Conservative MP for South Ribble, first elected in 2010.

Educated at Glasgow Caledonian University, Mrs Fullbrook was formerly the Conservative Leader of Hart Council in Hampshire, stepping down in 2004 after being selected as parliamentary candidate for the South Ribble constituency in north-west England. She contested the seat at the 2005 General Election, when she came second to the incumbent MP, David Borrow. She contested the seat again in the 2010 General Election when she defeated David Borrow with an 8.1% swing from the Labour Party to the Conservative Party, and regained the seat for the Conservative Party after 13 years.

In the 2010 election, her personal campaign was the most expensive in the country. Between January 1 and polling day, her campaign cost £41,700. Campaign costs are not passed on to the taxpayer but are incurred by the local party and are raised by holding coffee mornings, dinners or selling raffle tickets. [7]

In 2013 she announced that she would not contend the next election and would be sta

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List of Conservative Party MPs (UK)

For current sitting MPs, see List of United Kingdom Conservative MPs (2024–present).

This is a list of Conservative Party MPs. It includes all members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom representing the Conservative Party from 1834 onwards. Members of the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd or the European Parliament are not listed. The provided period of a member's tenure as a constituency MP is only relevant to those times that member was also party to the Conservative whip. Those in italics are overall leaders of the Conservative Party, those in bold are prime ministers.

List of MPs

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  • Benjamin St John Ackers; MP for West Gloucestershire (1885)
  • James Ackers; MP for Ludlow (1841–1847)
  • Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet; MP for North Devon (1837–1857)
  • Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet; MP for West Somerset (1837–1847)
  • Sir Gilbert Acland-Troyte; MP for Tiverton (1924–1945)
  • William à Court-Holmes; MP for Isle of Wight (1837–1847)
  • William Acton; MP for Wicklow (1841–1848)
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