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Kristina Moore

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Kristina Moore
Deputy for St Mary, St Ouen and St Peter
Assumed office
27 June 2022
Serving withLucy Stephenson
Ian Gorst
Lyndon Farnham
Chief Minister of Jersey
In office
11 July 2022 – 30 January 2024
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
Lieutenant GovernorSir Timothy Le Cocq (acting)
Jerry Kyd
Preceded byJohn Le Fondré
Succeeded byLyndon Farnham
Chair of the Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel
In office
12 June 2018 – 12 July 2022
Preceded byJohn Le Fondré
Succeeded bySam Mézec
Minister for Home Affairs
In office
6 November 2014 – 7 June 2018
Chief MinisterIan Gorst
Preceded byIan Le Marquand
Succeeded byLen Norman
Senator
In office
1 June 2018 – 17 June 2022
Deputy for Saint Peter
In office
14 November 2011 – 1 June 2018
Preceded byColin Egré
Succeeded byRowland Heulin
Personal details
Born
Kristina Louise Moore

1974 or 1975 (age 48–49)
Political partyIndependent
SpouseJames
Children2 sons
Residence(s) St Peter, Jersey
Websitemoore4jerse.squarespace.com

Kristina Louise Moore is a Jersey politician and former journalist who served as the Chief Minister of Jersey from July 2022 to January 2024.

She has served in the States Assembly since 2011 and is currently a deputy for St Mary, St Ouen and St Peter. First serving as Deputy for St Peter, she was Minister for Home Affairs from 2014 to 2018. In 2018 she was elected as a senator and became Chair of the Corporate Services Scrutiny Panel.

In 2022, she was elected by the new States Assembly as the first female Chief Minister of Jersey, a role which she officially took on 12 July that year.

In January 2024, Moore lost a vote of no confidence in her position, becoming the first Chief Minister to do so.[1]

Before entering politics she worked for ITV Central in the UK and ITV Channel Television in Jersey.

Journalism

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Before her election to the States Assembly in 2011, Moore spent over ten years working as a broadcast journalist based in the Channel Islands and the UK and presented Channel Television's nightly regional news programme, Channel Report.[citation needed]

After completing a BA in French at the University of Birmingham and a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism at Highbury College, Moore worked in news departments for independent local radio stations in the South of England. For a few years, she worked for ITV Central in Nottingham as a reporter and newsreader for Central News East.[citation needed]

In 2000, she joined Channel Television as a news reporter, before going on to replace Jenny Kirk as a main anchor of Channel Report and taking up a role as a political correspondent. She also spent a short period working for BBC Spotlight in the Channel Islands.[citation needed]

Political career

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Moore stood for St Peter's sole deputy seat in the 2011 general election for the States Assembly. She was elected on 19 October 2011, defeating Wayne Le Marquand by 1,169 votes to 589.[2]

In her 2011 manifesto, she stated that she would resist any further increases in Jersey's Goods and Services Tax (GST), and would like to see the proposed reduction in the number of States Members carried out by 2014.[3] At this time in 2011, the GST rate was 5%, having been increased from 3% in June 2011.[4]

On 15 October 2014, Moore was re-elected as deputy, defeating Debbie Hardisty by 1,335 votes to 200. Between 2014 and 2018, during Ian Gorst's second term as Chief Minister, she served as Minister for Home Affairs – the minister responsible for public safety, law enforcement, emergency services and immigration. Her Assistant Minister was Deidre Mezbourian, Connétable of Saint Lawrence. One notable law introduced during Moore's tenure was the Sexual Offences (Jersey) Law 2018, which strengthened protections for islanders (particularly children) against sexual offences, and for the first time introduced protection against female genital mutilation.

In 2018, Moore announced that she would stand for senator in the upcoming general election. She was elected senator on 16 May 2018, coming second out of the seventeen candidates standing for the eight senator positions. She received 15,292 votes, only narrowly beaten by Tracey Vallois who received 15,518 votes.[5] In the preceding election for Chief Minister, she supported the incumbent, Senator Ian Gorst, who lost to Senator John Le Fondré. Moore left Government, and took up positions on various scrutiny panels, most prominently as Chair of the Corporate Services Panel and President of the Scrutiny Liaison Committee.

In November 2020, Moore lodged a vote of no confidence in Chief Minister John Le Fondré, over a scandal involving the Government of Jersey Chief Executive Charlie Parker being allowed to take up a non-executive directorship as a second job.[6]

In the 2022 general election she was elected deputy for St. Mary, St. Ouen and St. Peter, after the role of senator was abolished. On 5 July 2022 she was elected Chief Minister by the States Assembly. She received 39 votes, with Deputy Sam Mézec of Reform Jersey receiving 10 votes. She assumed office on 12 July.

On 16 January 2024, Moore lost a vote of no confidence in the States by 27–22, becoming the first Chief Minister to do so, and the shortest-serving Chief Minister in Jersey's history.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Jersey's Chief Minister removed from position by politicians in historic no confidence vote, itv.com, 16 January 2024
  2. ^ "Election results 2011". Gov.je. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  3. ^ "MOORE, Kristina Louise". Vote.je. Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  4. ^ "Thousands sign petition against Jersey GST rise". BBC News. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  5. ^ "BBC Jersey – Jersey General Election 2018". bbc.co.uk. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Bailiwick Express – Senator brings no confidence vote against Chief Minister". bailiwickexpress.com. 3 November 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  7. ^ Jersey's Chief Minister removed from position by politicians in historic no confidence vote, itv.com, 16 January 2024
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Political offices
Preceded by Chief Minister of Jersey
2022–present
Incumbent