Sara Britcliffe

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Official portrait of Sara Britcliffe, 2019

Sara Alice Britcliffe (born February 21, 1995 ) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament for Hyndburn since the 2019 general election . When she was elected on December 12, 2019 at the age of 24, she was the youngest Conservative MP and the first Conservative to represent the constituency since 1992.

Family, childhood and youth

Sara Britcliffe has two older brothers. Her mother, Gabrielle Kroger, died in 2004 when she was nine years old. Her father, Peter, was a councilor for Oswaldtwistle County, Lancashire County Council.

She attended St. Christopher's High School in the Church of England in Accrington . She studied modern languages ​​at the University of Manchester . Britcliffe served as the ceremonial mayor at the side of her father, who was mayor of Hyndburn Borough Council, between 2017 and 2018. He resigned from the city council in 2018. In the 2018 Hyndburn Borough Council election, she was elected councilor for the St. Andrews borough of which her father was previously a member. Before starting her political career, she ran a sandwich shop in Oswaldtwistle.

Parliamentary career

Britcliffe was elected as the Conservative candidate for the Hyndburn constituency on November 6, 2019. Her father had run for this seat in the 1997 and 2001 parliamentary elections. In the 2019 parliamentary elections, she was elected MP for the constituency with a majority of 2951 (7.0%). The seat had been represented by a Labor Party MP since the parliamentary elections in 1992 . At 24, she was the youngest Conservative MP to be elected in the election.

Britcliffe came under fire in the weeks following her win after she was photographed wearing a t-shirt that had a picture of her predecessor Graham Jones printed on it.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members Sworn . Hansard. December 18, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  2. ↑ 'Moving' farewell to leader's ex-partner . December 9, 2004. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  3. ^ Bill Jacobs: New Hyndburn MP Sara, 24, promises 'youthful' view . In: Lancashire Telegraph , December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2019. 
  4. ↑ General Election Hustings . St Christopher's Church of England. December 3, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b c Bill Jacobs: Conservatives choose Sara Britcliffe to fight Hyndburn election . In: Lancashire Telegraph , November 6, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2019. 
  6. ↑ Hyndburn's Youngest Mayoress Reflects on First Six Months . Acorn News. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  7. ^ Bill Jacobs: Hyndburn faces a less colorful election with three of its major political figures missing from the campaign trail . In: Lancashire Telegraph , April 20, 2018. Retrieved December 29, 2019. 
  8. ^ Nic Marko: Hyndburn elections 2018: Full round-up and results . In: Lancashire Telegraph , May 4, 2018. Retrieved December 29, 2019. 
  9. ^ Daniel Bond: Class of 2019: Meet the new MPs . Politics Home. December 16, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  10. ^ Hyndburn . Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  11. ^ Fresh Tory faces make their way to Westminster . In: The Times , December 16, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019. 
  12. ^ Former Hyndburn MP slams 'disgusting and untrustworthy' behavior from Sara Britcliffe . In: Lancs Live , December 23, 2019. Retrieved January 5, 2020. 
personal data
SURNAME Britcliffe, Sara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Britcliffe, Sara Alice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH England