Therese Coffey
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Therese Coffey MP |
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| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment and Rural Life Opportunities | |
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Assumed office 17 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Sec. of State | Andrea Leadsom |
| Preceded by | Rory Stewart |
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Deputy Leader of the House of Commons |
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In office 11 May 2015 – 17 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Leader | Chris Grayling |
| Preceded by | Tom Brake |
| Succeeded by | Michael Ellis |
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Member of Parliament for Suffolk Coastal |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Majority | 18,842 (33.9%) |
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Therese Anne Coffey 18 November 1971 Billinge, Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater |
Somerville College, Oxford University College London |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Website | www |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Structural and reactivity studies of Bis(imido) complexes of molybdenum (1998) |
Therese Anne Coffey (born 18 November 1971) is an English Conservative Party politician. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Suffolk Coastal constituency, having won the seat at the general election in May 2010.
Therese Coffey was born in Billinge, Merseyside (then Lancashire), and grew up in Liverpool. Therese attended St Mary's College, Rhos on Sea and St Edward's College, Liverpool. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford and then at University College London, where she was awarded a PhD in Chemistry in 1998.
On graduation in 1997 she joined Mars, Incorporated in Hampshire as a chemist, later training as a Chartered Management Accountant, rising to hold the position of Finance director for Mars Drinks UK. As her political career progressed, she moved her work base to London; in 2009 she held the position of Property Finance manager at the BBC.
Coffey stood as Conservative Party candidate for the Wrexham constituency, in Wales, at the 2005 general election. She came third with 6,079 votes (20% of the vote).
In the European Parliament elections in June 2004, she failed to be elected to the European Parliament for the South East region of England. The Conservative Party won 35.2% of the vote, giving them four seats, but Coffey was seventh on the list in this proportional representation system.
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