Anna Soubry

Anna Soubry (2017)

Anna Mary Soubry (born December 7, 1956 in Lincoln ) is a British lawyer, journalist and politician. Since the 2010 election she was a member of the House of Commons for the constituency Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire , initially for the Conservative Party and since February 2019 for Change UK , of which she has chaired the party since June 2019. In the 2019 general election , however, she lost her seat in the lower house.

Life

Anna Soubry's parents were small business owners. She grew up in Dunham-on-Trent and Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire . After attending a comprehensive school, she studied law at the University of Birmingham . As a student she was involved in the National Union of Students and became a member of the Conservative Party in 1975 . From 1981 she worked as a journalist for regional television. In 1995 she became a barrister and a member of the Criminal Bar Association.

Soubry is a single mother of two and lives in Woodhouse Eaves , Leicestershire .

politics

After her election to the House of Commons in 2010, Soubry became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health in 2012/13 and Parliamentary Under-State Secretary for the area of ​​"State for Defense Personnel, Welfare and Veterans" in 2013/14. In 2014/15 she held the ministerial office in the same area; after the 2015 election, she became Minister for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise. In 2016 she resigned and has since criticized the politics of her party friends as a backbencher in parliament. On the Brexit question, she was a supporter of the UK remaining in the European Union .

On February 20, 2019, she resigned from the Conservative Party and joined the Independent Group , a group of MPs who had recently left the Labor Party .

After the previous party leader Heidi Allen , after the European elections in 2019 , with five other MPs, left Change UK, as the Independent Group was now called, Soubry was elected party leader in June 2019.

In the early election to the House of Commons on December 12, 2019, she lost her mandate to Darren Henry .

Web links

• Anna Soubry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Anna Soubry , website
• Anna Soubry , MP
• Anna Soubry , at Conservative Party (web archive from Jul 20, 2018; original page deleted on Feb 20, 2019)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anushka Asthana: Anna Soubry: I am not sorry for calling on May to 'sling out' Brexit MPs , in: The Guardian, February 10, 2018
2. ^ Three Conservative MPs Resign To Join Independent Group. Retrieved February 20, 2019 . 
3. ^ Change UK loose six of its 11 MPs . June 4, 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed June 14, 2019]).
4. ^ Broxtowe parliamentary constituency - Election 2019 . ( bbc.com [accessed December 15, 2019]).