Maria Caulfield
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Maria Caulfield MP |
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Member of Parliament for Lewes |
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Assumed office 8 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Norman Baker |
| Majority | 1,083 (2.1%) |
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6 August 1973 Lambeth, London, England, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | Official website |
Maria Colette Caulfield (born 6 August 1973) is a British Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Lewes constituency in 2015.
Maria Caulfield was born in 1973 to Irish immigrant parents and grew up on a council estate in Wandsworth, London. Her father was from a farming family in Ireland but, after emigrating, worked as a builder while her mother was a nurse and she considers herself to be working class.
While Caulfield was in her teens, her mother died from breast cancer and after leaving school she became an NHS nurse. She has spoken about her upbringing saying that she "grew up in a run-down area of South London where the only careers advice given to us was the phone number of the local council housing office for when you became a single mum and needed a council flat".
As a nurse she eventually specialized in Cancer research and moved to the south coast of England where she worked at the Royal Sussex County Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital and then the Royal Marsden. She became involved with the Conservative Party after joining a campaign to save local hospitals in the Brighton area.
In 2007 Brighton and Hove City Council election she became a member of the local city council for the previously safe Labour ward of Moulsecoomb. She served in the cabinet of the then Conservative authority and held the Housing Portfolio. In the 2011 local election she lost her seat to the Labour Party candidate.
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