1. Sal Brinton is the daughter of former Conservative MP Tim Brinton, and the cousin of Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks.
17 Facts About Sal Brinton
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Sal Brinton was educated at Benenden School and studied stage management at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Sal Brinton subsequently completed a degree in English literature at Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1981.
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Sal Brinton contested the parliamentary seat of South East Cambridgeshire at the 1997 and 2001 general elections.
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Sal Brinton served as bursar of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, from 1992 to 1997, and Selwyn College, Cambridge, from 1997 to 2002.
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Sal Brinton was founder member of the Board of the East of England Development Agency from December 1998 to December 2004.
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From 1999 to 2004, Sal Brinton chaired the Cambridgeshire Learning and Skills Council.
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Sal Brinton contested the Watford constituency at the 2005 general election, coming second to incumbent Labour MP Claire Ward.
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Sal Brinton stood at Watford at the next election in 2010, this time coming second behind Conservative candidate Richard Harrington and reducing Ward to a third-place finish.
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Sal Brinton is a non-executive director of the Ufi Charitable Trust, a charity giving grants in the vocational educational technology sector.
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Sal Brinton is a member of the Liberal Democrat Federal Policy Committee and Vice Chair of the Federal Conference Committee.
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Baroness Sal Brinton was a member of the All Party Stalking Inquiry of 2011.
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In 2014, Sal Brinton was elected as the president of the Liberal Democrats, defeating Daisy Cooper and Liz Lynne, and took up her position on 1 January 2015.
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Sal Brinton has rheumatoid arthritis and so usually uses a wheelchair.
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Sal Brinton met her husband Tim when she worked at the BBC.
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In 2003, Sal Brinton was awarded an honorary PhD for her contribution to education, skills and learning by Anglia Ruskin University.
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Sal Brinton is Patron of Christian Blind Mission UK, Trustee of the United Kingdom Committee of UNICEF, a Trustee of the Ufi Charitable Trust, and a Director of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd.