Trudy Harrison
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Trudy Harrison MP |
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Member of Parliament for Copeland |
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Assumed office 24 February 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Jamie Reed |
| Majority | 2,147 (7.0%) |
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19 April 1976 Seascale, England, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | University of Salford |
Trudy Lynne Harrison (born 19 April 1976) is a British politician and the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Copeland since the February 2017 by-election. It is the first time Copeland has elected a Conservative MP since 1935.
Harrison was born and brought up in Seascale. She was educated at the University of Salford.
Harrison previously worked at Sellafield, and served as a parish councillor in Bootle, Cumbria, from 2004 to 2007. Following the resignation of Jamie Reed, the incumbent Labour Party MP for Copeland, Harrison was selected by the Conservatives to contest the subsequent by-election.
The by-election was fought by both the Conservatives and Labour over a number of local issues. Harrison campaigned on a strongly pro-nuclear stance in contrast to Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party. She promised to safe guard thousands of jobs in the constituency by supporting the existing Sellafield site and the possible future Moorside Nuclear Power Station. She also campaigned on a pro-Brexit line and claimed that Labour wanted "to ignore how we voted in the referendum."
Harrison won the by-election with a majority of 2,147. Her election was seen by many commentators to be historic and a blow to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of Labour. Her victory in the historically solid Labour constituency was the first by-election gain by a governing party since 1982 and was also the best by-election performance by a governing party in terms of the increase in its share of the vote since January 1966.
She lives in Bootle with her husband Keith, who works as a welder at Sellafield, and her four daughters.
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