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Virginia Ann Crosbie (born 8 December 1966) is a British
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politician who has been the
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(MP) for Ynys Môn since the 2019 general election. Prior to her political career, she worked as a director at
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and
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before retraining as a mathematics teacher.


Early life

Crosbie was born in
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, to an English mother and Welsh father, and grew up in the village of
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, where her mother worked at the Tiptree Jam Factory. She attended Colchester County High School. As a teenager, she worked as a dolphin trainer at the
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for
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's
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children's television series '' Animal Magic''. She studied microbiology at
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before completing a diploma in management studies at the
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. After graduating, Crosbie worked for
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before becoming a pharmaceutical analyst at the bank
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. She became a director at
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and later at
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. She then retrained, and became a part time mathematics teacher. She is a former Chair o
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at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. She was a Director of Women2Win, helped to launch the charity IntoUniversity and worked as a coach mentor fo
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Parliamentary career

Crosbie contested the
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constituency as the Conservative candidate in the 2017 general election. She finished third behind the Labour Party and
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candidates. She then became the deputy chair of the Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham Conservatives Association, and the director of Women2Win, an organisation which campaigns for more female Conservative parliamentarians. She also worked as a senior parliamentary researcher for
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MP
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. She was selected as the Conservative candidate for Ynys Môn on 14 November 2019 (the day when nominations closed). Crosbie was chosen after the former Brecon and Radnorshire MP Chris Davies, the previously selected candidate, withdrew the day before due to opposition by the local association, and other Welsh Conservatives. She was elected as MP for at the 2019 general election with a majority of 1,968 (5.4%). The constituency had been represented by a Labour Party MP since the 2001 general election. She is the first Conservative MP to represent this three-way marginal seat since 1987. In January 2020, Crosbie tabled an early day motion about the protection of the Welsh language. From February 2020 to August 2021, she was the
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(PPS) to the
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. Crosbie has been a member of the
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since 2020 and sat on the
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between March and September 2020. In July 2020, Crosbie apologised for errors on her Welsh language website, stating that the
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was "not 100% perfect". She said she was learning the Welsh language and working on a fully bilingual website. In January 2021, Crosbie began a campaign to get 100 people in Anglesey trained in mental health first aid. She runs a long term campaign to find Anglesey's Hidden Heroes which she launched in 2020 during the Covid pandemic. She has campaigned locally for improved
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connectivity, and better availability of
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. In 2020, Crosbie started the Anglesey Freeport Bidding Consortium following the UK Government's announcement that at least one freeport would be established in Wales. She sponsored Anglesey County Council's bids for the Community Renewal Fund (leading to an award of £2.7m for Anglesey) and Levelling Up Fund. In 2022 she held an
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on the impact of the sudden closure of the
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by the
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. Since beginning her career as an MP, Crosbie has made the case for building new nuclear power stations in the UK. With the MP for Copeland,
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, she established the Nuclear Delivery Group with stakeholders including the NIA and NNL and she set up and chairs the APPG for SMRs. She has been vocal in her support of setting up a new nuclear plant on the site of
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on Anglesey and held an adjournment debate on Nuclear Energy Policy: Climate Change in 2020. From September 2021 to July 2022, she was a
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in the
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. Crosbie resigned as PPS in July 2022 in protest against the leadership of Prime Minister
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over his handling of the
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. She endorsed
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in the first rounds of the
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. She tabled a Ten Minute Rule Bill to amend the Protection of Livestock Act to legislate for better control of dogs around livestock and sponsored a
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amending the
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– the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill. She has sat on the following: Agriculture Bill Committee,
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Bill Committee,
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Bill Committee, Environment Bill Committee, ARIA Bill Committee, Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill Committee, Health and Care Bill Committee, Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Committee and
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. Crosbie is a Disabled Children's Champion.


Personal life

Crosbie is married and has three children. Her brother Simon died of suicide in 2018 at the age of 52. After her election in December 2019, she committed to learning the Welsh language and passed her entry level speaking examination in July 2021. In March 2021, Crosbie said she had reported around 30 threats, abusive emails and social media posts to the police since being elected as an MP. Speaking to
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, Crosbie said she had received violent threats on social media including threats of being hanged and poisoned.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crosbie, Virginia 1966 births Living people Conservative Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies English people of Welsh descent Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Welsh constituencies UK MPs 2019–present 21st-century British women politicians People educated at Colchester County High School Alumni of Queen Mary University of London Alumni of the University of Westminster People from Maldon, Essex HSBC people UBS people