Angela Browning

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Angela Browning, Baroness Browning, 2011

Angela Frances Browning, Baroness Browning (born December 4, 1946 ) is a British Conservative Party politician . She belonged to the House of Commons and is now a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Angela Browning was born Angela Pearson in Reading . Her father worked as a laboratory assistant at the University of Reading . After attending Westwood Grammar School for Girls (a grammar school ) on Honey End Lane in Reading, she attended Reading College of Technology and Bournemouth College of Technology . After graduating, she worked as a home economics teacher in adult education from 1968 to 1974 . In 1976 she worked as a self-employed nurse for a year. After that, from 1977 she was sales and training manager at GEC Hotpoint . She has been a freelance business consultant since 1985 and became director of a small business consultancy in 1994. From 1988 to 1992 she was the head of Women into Business.

She married David Browning on January 6, 1968 in Bournemouth . The marriage resulted in two sons.

politics

In the British general election in 1987 , she ran in the constituency of Crewe and Nantwich, but lost the election because of 1,092 votes only narrowly; Labor MP Gwyneth Dunwoody was able to defend her mandate. In the British general election in 1992 , she was set up by her party in the safe constituency of Tiverton . The previous mandate holder, Robin Maxwell-Hyslop , had retired after 32 years in the House of Commons. Browning won the seat by a wide margin.

In parliament she was a member of the Select Committee at the Ministry of Agriculture from 1992 . In 1993 she was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary and President of the National Autistic Society in the shadow cabinet of Michael Forsyth, Minister of Education . In 1994 she joined John Major's administration as Parliamentary Undersecretary in the Department of Agriculture, of which she was a member until the government was elected. She became Vice President of the National Alzheimer's Disease Society in 1997 .

After the constituency of Tiverton was dissolved, Browning won the 1997 British general election in the new constituency of Tiverton and Honiton with a narrow majority.

After the resignation of John Major as leader of the Conservative Party, she led the campaign of John Redwood . She was the spokesperson for education and employment in the shadow cabinet of William Hague . In 1998, she left this job to take full care of her son Robin, who suffers from autism .

In 1999 she returned to politics and became State Secretary for Trade and Industry in the Shadow Cabinet and from 2000 Shadow Leader of the House of Commons , i.e. the contact person between the Shadow Cabinet and the Presidium of Parliament. After the British general election in 2001 , she was the opposition spokeswoman for constitutional issues and from April 2000 deputy chairwoman of the Conservative Party. In the British general election in 2005 , she held her seat with an improved election result. On November 17, 2006, Browning declared that he no longer wanted to run in the 2010 election.

House of Lords

On July 9, 2010, she was raised to Life Peer as Baroness Browning , of Whimple in the County of Devon , and thus belongs to the House of Lords for life. She took her seat there on July 13, 2010 on the side of the Conservative Party.

After the formation of the Conservative-Liberal coalition government, Lady Browning succeeded James Brokenshire as Minister for Crime Prevention and Anti-Social Behavior Reduction (comparable to a Secretary of State in the home office ). She left the government on September 16, 2011. He was succeeded by Lord Henley .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tory deputy chairman to step down . BBC News Online . November 17, 2006. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  2. ^ House of Lords Minute of Proceedings for July 13, 2011
  3. ^ Home Office: New Lords minister at Home Office
personal data
SURNAME Browning, Angela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Browning, Angela Frances, Baroness Browning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons and Life Peer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading, Berkshire