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Constituency Profile
Candidates:
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Bromsgrove Independent Conservative Adrian D Kriss | |
British National Party Elizabeth Wainwright | |
Independent Kenneth Donald Wheatley | |
Independent Mark Anthony France | |
Liberal Democrats Philip Ling | |
Conservative Party Sajid Javid | |
Labour Party Sam Burden | |
UK Independence Party Steve Morson |
Incumbent: |
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Miss Julie Kirkbride Bromsgrove (100 %) |
Electorate: |
Current | 68443 |
2005 | 70762 |
Transposed 2005 Result: Source: Electoral Calculus |
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Other | 1919 |
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| 09 05 29 |
BBC News 204.9.162.70 |
MPs Kirkbride and Moran to quit Tory MP Julie Kirkbride and Labour's Margaret Moran are standing down at the election after expenses revelations. Ms Kirkbride had faced a welter of claims about her expenses claims and said she ‘must take into account the effects on my family’ of the row. ... 'Enormous pressure' In a letter to Mr Cameron, Ms Kirkbride, 48, said she wanted the Conservatives to have a ‘great result’ at the next election. She added: ‘My principal concern has to be for my very loyal local supporters in Bromsgrove whose trust in me has been very humbling in the last few weeks. ‘I also must take into account the effects on my family.’ In his reply, Mr Cameron thanked her for being so ‘frank and candid’, adding that he appreciated that she had been ‘under enormous pressure’ from ‘unbearably intense’ media scrutiny. He said: ‘I know this was a very hard decision for you to take, but I completely understand why you have decided to do so. Ms Kirkbride had been due to take the fight for her political future to the doorsteps of her Bromsgrove constituency over the next few days but BBC political correspondent James Landale said there was a clear sense that the row had to stop. Ms Kirkbride was initially embroiled in the expenses story as a result of revelations that her husband - and fellow Tory MP Andrew Mackay - had named their main home in London as his second home and claimed expenses for it. But despite him quitting last week, she had to answer questions about her brother, who lived rent-free in her taxpayer-funded constituency home and her sister, who did secretarial work for her despite living more than 100 miles from her constituency. She also came under fire for re-mortgaging her second home to fund an extension and claiming for the higher interest payments. She said she needed an extra bedroom so her eight-year old son did not have to share a room with her 59-year old brother, who helps to look after him. Before announcing she would quit, she told BBC Radio 5 Live that she understood public anger over the expenses row. But she added: ‘Until this week's furore, it didn't cross my mind that I had done anything wrong.’ ... Published: 2009/05/28 21:59:39 GMT |
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