Education
Bardell attended Broxburn Academy and the University of Stirling.
Bardell attended Broxburn Academy and the University of Stirling.
She is the Scottish National Party Business, Innovation and Skills spokesperson in the House of Commons. Born in 1983 in Craigshill, Livingston. Her first jobs were with STV Glasgow and GMTV London, where she became an assistant producer of the current affairs Sunday Programme.
Bardell met Alex Salmond in 2007 and joined the Scottish National Party"s election campaign for the 2007 Scottish Parliament election.
Foreign three years, she worked for Salmond and Ian Hudghton Member of the European Parliament in his constituency office. Bardell then worked for the United States State Department in their Edinburgh Consulate. before joining the oil and gas industry, initially with Subsea 7, then for Oil & Gas Service company Stork as Head of Communications & Marketing for the United Kingdom, Africa & Norway.
She fought the Livingston seat for the Scottish National Party in the 2015 United Kingdom general election polling 32,736. Bardell is one of 32 LGBT MPs in the House of Commons, saying following the 2015 election that “I only came out to myself and to my family during the election.
I then chose not to say anything publicly because I had just got elected and I didn’t want it to be one of the first things I said about myself as an Member of Parliament.".
56th United Kingdom Parliament.