Lord Bradley

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Keith John Charles Bradley was born on the 17th May, 1950 in Birmingham. He is a British Labour Party Politician and life peer. He was formerly the Labour MP for Manchester Withington from 1987 until 2005.

Political Career[edit]

Before becoming an MP he worked as a Councillor from 1983 to 1987. He then went on to win his seat at the 1987 General Election. After Labour’s victory at the 1997 General Election, he was appointed as a junior minister at the Department of Social Security and then went on to become Deputy Chief Whip and Treasurer of the Queen’s Household in 1998.

He has also served as a junior minister in the Home Office for Criminal Justice, Sentencing and Law Reform from 2001-02, and then a backbench MP and member of the Health Select Committee. However, Bradley lost his seat in the 2005 General Election. In 2006 he was appointed as a life peer in the House of Lords.

Education[edit]

He went to school at Bishop Vesey Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield. He then went on to study at Aston University gaining a Dip Act in 1970. He also has a BA in Social Science from Manchester Polytechnic and an MPhil in 1978 from the University of York.

External Links[edit]

http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-bradley/452