Staffordshire Moorlands (UK Parliament constituency)

Staffordshire Moorlands
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Staffordshire Moorlands in Staffordshire.
Location of Staffordshire within England.
County	Staffordshire
Electorate	62,457 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Leek and Biddulph
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Karen Bradley (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Leek
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

Staffordshire Moorlands is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Karen Bradley, a Conservative who has served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport since 14 July 2016.

The forerunner seat, Leek existed for nearly a century until 1983 and in its more recent history alternated between the Labour Party and Conservative parties three times after a Liberal had held the seat from 1910 until 1918. Despite the changes in member, it was far from a bellwether (that is, a reflection of the national result), as Leek leaned more towards one party more than the other in two phases: in the first, longer part of this period the seat was held mainly by William Bromfield (Lab), secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades (ASTWKT), whose membership covered Staffordshire and South Cheshire and then by the future Lord Davies of Leek who as the main aide to the Prime Minister, was tasked with secret talks with Ho Chi Minh at which he failed due to a leak; in the second part of this period David Knox (Con), a pro-European, toward the left of his party, and a supporter of Ted Heath when he faced Margaret Thatcher's leadership challenge, helped to establish Tory Reform Group and during his long tenure as MP until 1997 held the seat even during the Wilson-Callaghan government.