Jessica Katherine Lee
(born 7 April 1976)
[ Erewash Conservatives – Jessica Lee MP] is a British former
Conservative Party
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politician. She was elected as the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for the constituency of
Erewash in Derbyshire in
2010.
She served as
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the
Attorney General,
Dominic Grieve
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (born 24 May 1956) is a British barrister and former politician who served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2008 to 2009 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2010 to 2014. He served as the Member of Parl ...
, before stepping down for the
2015 general election.
Early life
Lee was born in
Nottingham
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on 7 April 1976,
educated at
Loughborough High School
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and
Royal Holloway
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, University of London, where she graduated with a degree in History & Politics in 1997 and served as Chair of the college's Conservative Students Society. She was the first person from her family to go to university.
Lee went on to study at the
College of Law
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. She was
called to the Bar by the
Middle Temple
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in 2000, and practised as a
barrister specialising in
family law
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.
At the
2005 general election, Lee stood as a
parliamentary candidate for the Conservative Party in
Camberwell and Peckham
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, finishing third with 9.8% of the vote in a constituency won by the incumbent
Labour Party MP
Harriet Harman
Harriet Ruth Harman (born 30 July 1950) is a British politician and solicitor who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Camberwell and Peckham, formerly Peckham, since 1982. A member of the Labour Party, she has served in various Cabi ...
.
Parliamentary career
Lee was elected to the
House of Commons
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as MP for Erewash in the
2010 general election with a majority of 2,501.
After her victory was confirmed, she said: "I feel privileged, honoured, slightly overwhelmed. I mean it when I say I will do my best to serve everyone in Erewash, whether they voted for me or not".
Lee campaigned enthusiastically for the opening of a railway station in
Ilkeston
Ilkeston is a town in the Borough of Erewash, Derbyshire, England, on the River Erewash, from which the borough takes its name, with a population at the 2011 census of 38,640. Its major industries, coal mining, iron working and lace making/texti ...
, and raised the issue in the
House of Commons
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.
Following the formation of the
Cameron Ministry in May 2010, Lee was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the
Attorney General,
Dominic Grieve
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (born 24 May 1956) is a British barrister and former politician who served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2008 to 2009 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2010 to 2014. He served as the Member of Parl ...
.
In January 2014, Lee announced her intention to step down at the
2015 general election.
References
External links
Jessica Lee MP''official constituency website''
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UK MPs 2010–2015
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London
People educated at Loughborough High School
Politicians from Nottingham
1976 births
Living people
Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire
21st-century British women politicians
21st-century English women
21st-century English people