Karen Bradley

The Right Honourable
Dame Karen Bradley
DBE MP
Official portrait, 2017
Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office
11 September 2024
Preceded byDame Diana Johnson
Chair of the House of Commons Procedure Committee
In office
29 January 2020 – 4 July 2024
Preceded byCharles Walker
Succeeded byCat Smith
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office
8 January 2018 – 24 July 2019
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byJames Brokenshire
Succeeded byJulian Smith
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport[a]
In office
14 July 2016 – 8 January 2018
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byJohn Whittingdale
Succeeded byMatt Hancock
Junior ministerial offices
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Preventing Abuse, Exploitation and Crime
In office
8 February 2014 – 14 July 2016
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded bySarah Newton
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
In office
7 October 2013 – 8 February 2014
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byRobert Goodwill
Succeeded byJohn Penrose
Member of Parliament
for Staffordshire Moorlands
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byCharlotte Atkins
Majority1,175 (2.8%)
Personal details
Born
Karen Anne Howarth

(1970-03-12) 12 March 1970 (age 54)[1]
Newcastle-under-Lyme, England
Political partyConservative
SpouseNeil Bradley
Children2
Alma materImperial College London
Websitewww.karenbradley.co.uk Edit this at Wikidata

Dame Karen Anne Bradley[2] DBE (née Howarth; born 12 March 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Staffordshire Moorlands since 2010 and the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee since 2024.[3][4] She served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2018 to 2019.

Bradley was appointed to the Cameron–Clegg coalition as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in 2013, before being promoted to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Preventing Abuse, Exploitation and Crime in 2014. During the formation of the May government in July 2016, she was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, where she remained until being appointed Northern Ireland Secretary in January 2018, serving until her dismissal by new Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2019.[5]


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  1. ^ "Karen Bradley MP". BBC Democracy Live. BBC. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
  2. ^ "No. 59418". The London Gazette. 13 May 2010. p. 8745.
  3. ^ "Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election results". Archived from the original on 13 June 2011.
  4. ^ Elections 2010: Karen Bradley takes Staffordshire Moorlands with 6,700 majority Archived 10 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine on ThisIsStaffordshire.co.uk
  5. ^ "Karen Bradley sacked as Secretary of State for NI". BBC News. 24 July 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2023.