Education
Born Fiona Claire Riley at Wick in the Scottish Highlands, she was educated at Burnley High School for Girls and Howell"s School Llandaff, before reading Law at the University of Manchester and further studies at Chester Law College.
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Fiona Bruce
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Bruce was elected in 2004 to Warrington Borough Council, on which she served as Executive Member for Finance from 2006-2009. She stepped down from the Council upon her election to Parliament in 2010. She had unsuccessfully contested Warrington South at the 2005 general election, finishing second to the sitting Labour Member of Parliament, Helen Southworth.
She was awarded the title Small Businesswoman of the Year in 2003 and gained a place on the Conservative A-List in 2006.
Following her selection as the Conservative Party candidate for the constituency, she denied that she had been chosen as a result of an orchestrated campaign by religious groups sympathetic to her evangelical Christian beliefs. In February 2015, Bruce introduced an amendment to the Serious Crime Bill 2014 to make abortion on the grounds of the sex of the baby illegal.
The amendment was rejected by 292 votes to 201.
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Bruce is an Evangelical Alliance council member and describes "defending and fighting for the sanctity of human life" as her priority in Parliament.
Membership
55th United Kingdom Parliament. 56th United Kingdom Parliament]
She has been a member of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee since 2010.
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