Keith John Charles Bradley, Baron Bradley, (born 17 May 1950, in

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) is a British Labour Party politician and

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. He was formerly the

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(MP) for

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from 1987 until 2005.

Early life

He went to

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. He studied at

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, gaining a DipAcct in 1970. From

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(now

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), he gained a BA in Social Science in 1976. From the

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, he gained an

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in 1978. He worked for the chartered accountants Charles Impey & Co from 1969–73. He was a research officer for

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Housing Department from 1978–81. From 1981–7, he was Secretary of Stockport Community Health Council.

Parliamentary career

He was first elected as

(MP) for the constituency at the 1987 general election, having served as a councillor in

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Ward (Manchester) since 1983. After the 1997 general election he became a junior minister at the

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, and then became Deputy

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and Treasurer of the Queen's Household in 1998. He was a junior minister in the Home Office for Criminal Justice, Sentencing, and Law Reform from 2001–2, and then a

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MP and member of the Health Select Committee. He is a member of the

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. Bradley lost his seat in Parliament when he was defeated by a swing of over 17% to the

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, John Leech, in the 2005 general election. In April 2006 it was announced that Keith Bradley would become a working

in the

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, and he became Baron Bradley, ''of

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in the County of Greater Manchester'' on 12 June 2006. Lord Bradley is also a Special Adviser to the President and Vice-Chancellor of the

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. In October 2006 it was announced that Keith Bradley had been appointed to the board of The

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as a non executive director. He was appointed Chair of the Trust in May 2011. In February 2014 he announced that he would resign from the board as a consequences of disagreements about the way in which the suspension of the Chief Executive was being handled.

Personal life

Lord Bradley and his wife, Rhona Bradley, have two sons (Matthew and Jonathan) and a daughter (Rebecca). He married Rhona Ann Graham in 1987. He was criticized for sending Jonathan to

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. His sister, Sally Bradley and her partner William (Billy) Harrop, were killed on Sunday 21 April during breakfast at one of the Hotels in the

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