Julia Goldsworthy | |
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Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne |
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In office 6 May 2005 – 12 April 2010 |
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Preceded by | Candy Atherton |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
Personal details | |
Born |
Camborne, Cornwall |
10 September 1978
Nationality | British |
Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Alma mater | Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge |
Profession | Special Adviser |
Julia Anne Goldsworthy (born 10 September 1978) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and former Member of Parliament (MP). She represented Falmouth and Camborne from 2005 until 2010. She was defeated by 66 votes by the Conservatives in the new Camborne and Redruth constituency following boundary changes. In the House of Commons she was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Communities and Local Government. After her defeat, she worked as a special adviser.
Goldsworthy was born in Camborne, Cornwall, where her mother was a local teacher. She was educated locally at the St Meriadoc Primary School in Camborne before winning a scholarship to the independent Truro School. She took a gap year between school and starting university in 1997, and in 2000 she graduated from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge with a BA (Hons) degree, in History. She then spent a year at Daiichi University of Economics in the Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the following year completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Economics at Birkbeck College, London, in 2002.