Angela Frances Browning, Baroness Browning is a British Conservative Party politician.
20 Facts About Angela Browning
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Angela Browning was the Member of Parliament for Tiverton and Honiton from 1997 to 2010, having previously been MP for Tiverton from 1992 to 1997.
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Angela Browning's father was a lab technician at the University of Reading.
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Angela Browning worked in adult education as a home economics tutor from 1968 until 1974.
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Angela Browning was an auxiliary nurse for a year in 1976, and was appointed as a sales and training manager with GEC Hotpoint in 1977.
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Angela Browning was selected for the safe Conservative seat of Tiverton following the retirement of Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, who had represented the seat for 32 years.
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Angela Browning held the seat comfortably at the 1992 general election with a majority of 11,089.
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Angela Browning made her maiden speech on 12 June 1992.
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Angela Browning was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State at the Department for Education and Employment Michael Forsyth in 1993.
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Angela Browning entered John Major's government in 1994 when she became a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, where she remained until the Major government fell.
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Angela Browning became a vice president of the National Alzheimer's Disease Society in 1997.
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Angela Browning won the new seat with a sharply reduced majority of 1,653.
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Angela Browning was appointed as an opposition spokeswoman on Education and Employment under William Hague, but she stepped down in 1998 to look after her autistic adult son, Robin.
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Angela Browning was a Member of both the Public Accounts and Standards and Privileges Select Committees.
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On 17 November 2006, Angela Browning announced her intention not to stand as a candidate at the 2010 general election.
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On 11 May 2011, it was announced that Lady Angela Browning would replace James Brokenshire as the Minister for Crime Prevention and Anti-Social Behaviour Reduction in the coalition government following the resignation of Lady Neville-Jones as Security Minister.
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Lady Angela Browning became the Home Office Minister of State in the House of Lords, making her the lead for all Home Office business in the Upper House.
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Angela Browning resigned from government on health grounds on 16 September 2011, and was replaced in the Home Office by Lord Henley.
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Angela Browning was interviewed in 2015 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.
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Angela Browning married David Browning on 6 January 1968 in Bournemouth.