Trudy Harrison
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Trudy Lynne Harrison (born 19 April 1976) is a British Conservative Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Copeland since winning the seat at the 2017 Copeland by-election. It was the first time Copeland had elected a Conservative MP since 1931, and it was also the first time Copeland had elected a female MP.
Trudy Harrison was then re-elected in the June 2017 General Election[1] and December 2019 General Election.[2]
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PPS
A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is appointed by a minister to be his or her assistant. He or she is selected from backbench MPs as the 'eyes and ears' of the minister in the House of Commons. In December 2019, Trudy Harrison was appointed Boris Johnson’s PPS. Accepting the role on 17 December 2019, Mrs Harrison said:
- “Boris and I had a conversation about our shared priorities for the North including, of course, securing a strong nuclear future. His commitment to unleashing the potential across the UK inspired my decision to accept.
- “To serve the Prime Minister so closely in Parliament is a huge responsibility and an honour and one which I will take incredibly seriously.”
She had previously served as PPS at the Ministry of Defence, at the Department for Transport and most recently directly to the Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson.[3]
Political career
Trudy Harrison served as an independent parish councillor in Bootle, Cumbria from 2004 to 2007.[4]
Following the resignation of Jamie Reed, the incumbent Labour Party MP for Copeland, Harrison was selected by the Conservative Party to contest the subsequent by-election, having only joined the party one year earlier.[5] The 2017 Copeland by-election was fought by both the Conservatives and Labour over a number of local issues. Harrison campaigned on a strongly pro-nuclear stance in contrast to Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party. She promised to safeguard thousands of jobs in the constituency by supporting the existing Sellafield site and the possible future Moorside Nuclear Power Station.[6] She also campaigned on a pro-Brexit line and said that Labour wanted "to ignore how we voted in the 2016 EU Referendum.
"Blow to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership"
Trudy Harrison won the by-election with a majority of 2,147. Her election was seen by many commentators to be historic and a blow to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of Labour.[7] Her victory in the historically solid Labour constituency was the first by-election gain by a governing party since the 1982 Mitcham and Morden by-election and was also the best by-election performance by a governing party in terms of the increase in its share of the vote since January 1966.[8]
Event Participated in
| Event | Location(s) | Description |
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| UK/Parliament/Voted YES to vaccine passports in 2021 | UK/House of Commons | These members of the UK Parliament voted YES to the introduction of a "vaccine" passport in 2021 |
References
- ↑ "Trudy Harrison MP"
- ↑ "BBC News"
- ↑ "Copeland MP Trudy Harrison is Boris' ‘right-hand woman’"
- ↑ "Tory candidate for Copeland MP election says Brexit must be respected"
- ↑ "Tories and Labour pick candidates for Copeland and Stoke byelections"
- ↑ "Copeland by-election: Brexit and other issues that could swing the vote"
- ↑ "Corbyn says he is not to blame for Copeland loss and will not resign"
- ↑ "Tories in historic by-election Copeland win as Labour holds Stoke"
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