1. Seema Louise Ghiassi Kennedy is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at both the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office in 2019.
17 Facts About Seema Kennedy
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Seema Kennedy was the Member of Parliament for South Ribble in Lancashire from 2015 to 2019, and served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister from 2017 to 2019.
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Seema Kennedy was the first female MP of Iranian heritage to take a seat in the House of Commons.
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Seema Kennedy's father is an Iranian, and her mother is Irish.
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Seema Kennedy studied French and Persian at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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Seema Kennedy stood as the Conservative Party's candidate in Ashton-under-Lyne at the 2010 general election.
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Seema Kennedy came second in the election to the incumbent Labour MP David Heyes.
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Seema Kennedy unsuccessfully contested the 2013 Hampstead and Kilburn Conservative primary, and was on the longlist for selection in the Mid Worcestershire constituency.
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In 2014, Seema Kennedy was elected as councillor for the Marshalwick South ward of St Albans City and District Council.
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Seema Kennedy had previously been the chairwoman of the party in St Albans but resigned in 2009 after a failed attempt to deselect local MP Anne Main over her parliamentary expenses.
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Seema Kennedy was elected as Member of Parliament for South Ribble in the 2015 general election.
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Seema Kennedy supported the United Kingdom remaining within the European Union in the 2016 UK EU membership referendum.
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Seema Kennedy voted for then Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement in early 2019.
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Seema Kennedy was a Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Middle East Council.
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Seema Kennedy is chaired and was co-founded by former Labour Party politician Peter Mandelson.
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Seema Kennedy initially began work on the commission with Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016.
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Seema Kennedy is married to John Clark and has three sons from a previous marriage.