Victoria Borwick MP |
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Member of Parliament for Kensington |
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Assumed office 7 May 2015 |
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Preceded by | Malcolm Rifkind |
Majority | 7,361 (21.1%) |
Deputy Mayor of London | |
In office 9 May 2012 – 13 May 2015 |
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Mayor | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Richard Barnes |
Succeeded by | Roger Evans |
Member of the London Assembly At-large |
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In office 1 May 2008 – 16 September 2015 |
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Succeeded by | Kemi Badenoch |
Personal details | |
Born |
London, United Kingdom |
26 April 1956
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | James Borwick |
Children | 4 |
Religion | Christianity |
Website |
Mayoral website Parliament biography |
Victoria Borwick, Lady Borwick (born Victoria Lorne Peta Poore; 26 April 1956) is a British Conservative politician who serves as Member of Parliament for Kensington. Borwick was deputy mayor of London from 2012 to 2015 and was elected to the House of Commons in 2015. She is also a councillor in Kensington and Chelsea and a Member of the London Assembly from 2008 to 2015. She worked in senior management for P&O and DMG World Media before becoming the Conservative Party's fundraising director.
Born in London in 1956, she was educated at Wispers School. Victoria Poore married Jamie Borwick on 20 March 1981. She is the only child of Wing Cdr Dennistoun Poore (died 1987), a scion of the baronetage family of that name, while her husband succeeded his uncle in 2007 as 5th Baron Borwick (as well as in his family's baronetcy) and took his seat in the House of Lords, in 2013, as an elected hereditary peer. They have three sons and a daughter.