Education
Imperial College London.
Imperial College London.
In September 2012, she was appointed as an Assistant Government Whip in the Government Whips" Office. In 2013, she was promoted becoming a Government Whip (Junior Lord of the Treasury). In February 2014, she became Minister for Security, based in the Home Office and replacing James Brokenshire.
Born Karen Anne Howarth in Newcastle-under-Lyme, she was educated at Buxton Girls" School and Imperial College London, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.
In 1991 she joined Deloitte & Touche as a tax manager, and after seven years she became a senior tax manager with Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler. In 2004 she set up business as a fiscal and economic consultant before rejoining Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler in 2007, where she remained until her election to the House of Commons. She contested Manchester Withington at the 2005 general election, coming third.
She relinquished these positions on her appointment to the Government Whips" Office in September 2012.
55th United Kingdom Parliament. 56th United Kingdom Parliament]
She was a member of the Conservative Party"s A-List and was selected for Staffordshire Moorlands in July 2006. Karen Bradley was a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee since 2010, and in 2012 was elected co-secretary of the backbench 1922 Committee.