Keith Bradley, Baron Bradley
Keith John Charles Bradley, Baron Bradley (born 17 May 1950) is a British politician and life peer for the Labour Party. He was formerly the Labour MP for Manchester Withington from 1987 until 2005.
He first became an MP for the constituency in 1987, having served as a councillor in Old Moat Ward (Manchester) since 1983. After the 1997 general election he became a junior minister at the Department of Social Security, and then became Deputy Chief Whip and Treasurer of the Queen's Household in 1998. He was a junior minister in the Home Office for Criminal Justice, Sentencing, and Law Reform from 2001 to 2002, and then a backbench MP and member of the Health Select Committee. He is a member of the Privy Council. Bradley lost his seat in Parliament when he was defeated by a swing of over 17% to the Liberal Democrat candidate, John Leech, in the 2005 general election.
Lord Bradley and his wife, Rhona Bradley, have three children.
In April 2006 it was announced that Keith Bradley would become a working life peer in the House of Lords, and he became Baron Bradley, of Withington in the County of Greater Manchester on 12 June 2006.
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Life peers
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament from English constituencies
- UK Labour Party politicians
- MPs of the 49th UK Parliament (1983-1987)
- MPs of the 50th UK Parliament (1987-1992)
- MPs of the 51st UK Parliament (1992-1997)
- MPs of the 52nd UK Parliament (1997-2001)
- MPs of the 53rd UK Parliament (2001-2005)
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