Lorraine Fullbrook

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Fullbrook
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office
28 September 2020
Life Peerage
Member of Parliament
for South Ribble
In office
6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015
Preceded byDavid Borrow
Succeeded bySeema Kennedy
Personal details
Born (1959-07-28) 28 July 1959 (age 65)[1][2]
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland[2]
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
SpouseMark Fullbrook[3]
Alma materGlasgow Caledonian University
Website[1]

Lorraine Fullbrook, Baroness Fullbrook (born 28 July 1959) is a British Conservative former MP for South Ribble, first elected in 2010.[4][5]

Educated at Glasgow Caledonian University, Mrs Fullbrook was formerly the Conservative Leader of Hart Council in Hampshire. She joined the Cabinet of the council as the Cabinet Member for Communications. Six months later, she was promoted to Cabinet Member for Finance. Six months after taking over the finance portfolio, she was elected as Leader of the Council, after serving just one year as Councillor.[6]

She stepped down from Hart Council in 2004 after being selected as parliamentary candidate for the South Ribble constituency in north-west England.[3]

She first contested the seat at the 2005 general election, when she came second to the incumbent MP, David Borrow.[7] She contested the seat again in the 2010 general election when she defeated David Borrow with an 8.1% swing from the Labour Party to the Conservative Party, and regained the seat for the Conservative Party after 13 years.[8][4]

In 2013 she announced that she would not contend the next election and would be standing down after just one term.

Fullbrook was nominated for a life peerage by Boris Johnson in the 2019 Dissolution Honours.[9] On 7 September 2020 she was created Baroness Fullbrook, of Dogmersfield in the County of Hampshire.[10]

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  2. ^ a b "Lorraine Fullbrook". Telegraph. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  3. ^ a b "Hart's leader quits". Get Hampshire. 6 May 2004. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  4. ^ a b "Tories reclaim South Ribble after 13 years". Lancashire Evening Post. England. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  5. ^ "Tories claim South Ribble seat". Leyland Guardian. England. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  6. ^ "Lorraine Fullbrook". politics.co.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  7. ^ "Election 2005: Result: Ribble South". BBC News. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  8. ^ "Election 2010 > Constituency > South Ribble". BBC News. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  9. ^ "Dissolution Peerages 2019" (PDF). Gov.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Baroness Fullbrook of Dogmersfield". UK Parliament. Retrieved 7 September 2020.