Jacqueline Doyle-Price was born on 5 August 1969 and is a British Conservative Party politician and former civil servant.
26 Facts About Jackie Doyle-Price
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Jackie Doyle-Price was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Thurrock in the 2010 general election.
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Jacqueline Jackie Doyle-Price was born on 5 August 1969 on a council estate in Sheffield.
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Jackie Doyle-Price was raised in the suburb of Hillsborough and in the suburb of Wisewood, where she continued to live on a council estate.
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Jackie Doyle-Price attended Notre Dame Roman Catholic High School, a comprehensive school.
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Jackie Doyle-Price's parents attempted to buy their council house through Margaret Thatcher's Right to Buy scheme and faced resistance from the left-wing Sheffield City Council, which was run by the Labour Party under the local leadership of David Blunkett.
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Jackie Doyle-Price claimed that its left-wing councillors did "everything they could to bully my parents into not buying their council house", and one of her left-wing teachers encouraged her to build upon her new-found interest and participate in politics, suggesting that she "go out and participate in democracy".
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Jackie Doyle-Price graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in 1991.
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Jackie Doyle-Price continued her activism after graduation and held several posts in the Conservative Party before her election to parliament.
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Jackie Doyle-Price was constituency officer of the Greenwich and Woolwich Conservatives from 2006 to 2007.
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Jackie Doyle-Price first stood for election to parliament in the 2005 general election.
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Jackie Doyle-Price was elected for the Conservative Party as the Member of Parliament for Thurrock at the 2010 general election, by a majority of 92 after two recounts.
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Jackie Doyle-Price retained her seat in May 2015, with a majority of 536 after a recount and in June 2017 with a majority of 345 - again after a recount.
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However, in December 2019 Jackie Doyle-Price increased her majority massively, to over 11,000 votes, the largest Conservative majority in the seat's history.
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Jackie Doyle-Price made her maiden speech on 28 June 2010, speaking about the need for welfare reform.
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Jackie Doyle-Price was prepared to publicly challenge ministers on behalf of her constituents, particularly on transport issues connected with the Dartford Crossing and on the Government postponement of work to improve Junction 30 of the M25.
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Jackie Doyle-Price was a co-sponsor of the private member's EU membership referendum bill that was given a second reading on 5 July 2013.
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Jackie Doyle-Price was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 EU membership referendum.
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Jackie Doyle-Price left the government following the election of Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party, but returned to government as Minister of State for Industry when Liz Truss was elected as Prime Minister in September 2022.
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Jackie Doyle-Price left the government again following Rishi Sunak's appointment as Prime Minister.
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In May 2013 Jackie Doyle-Price voted against same-sex marriage on its third reading in the House of Commons, having abstained at the second reading.
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Jackie Doyle-Price stated after the vote that whilst she supported equality for same-sex couples, she regarded marriage as a sacrament, and would have voted in favour of a bill which "sought to equalise civil partnership with civil marriage".
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Jackie Doyle-Price stated that she would reconsider her position if the bill was amended.
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In July 2020, Jackie Doyle-Price was critical of the availability of what she described as "dangerous" gender-affirming healthcare for trans children.
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Jackie Doyle-Price holds a surgery every month in Grays, Thurrock.
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In 1997, during her tenure as its chairwoman, Jackie Doyle-Price introduced Truss to the Lewisham Deptford Conservative Association, which Truss herself would chair from 1998 to 2000.