Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom (born 1 May 1963), is the Conservative Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire

South Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Northamptonshire is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The current Member of Parliament is Andrea Leadsom of the Conservative Party.-History:...

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Personal life

She is married to Ben Leadsom, with whom she has three children. She studied political science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 at the University of Warwick

University of Warwick

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Political career

Prior to her election in 2010, Leadsom was a councillor on South Oxfordshire District Council between 2003 and 2007, and also contested Knowsley South

Knowsley South

Knowsley South was a constituency in Merseyside, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.It existed from 1983 to 2010.-History:...

 constituency in the 2005 general election.

Andrea Leadsom was a member of the controversial A-List. and was one of the first on this priority list to be selected for a seat, chosen as she was in June 2006 for the newly-created South Northamptonshire constituency. The notional majority for the seat was 11,356. In the event, she won it with a majority of more than 20,000.

She stepped down from her job as Head of Corporate Governance at Invesco Perpetual in order to concentrate on politics.