Siobhan Kathleen Baillie was born on 28 August 1981 and is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Stroud since the 2019 general election.
11 Facts About Siobhan Baillie
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Siobhan Baillie moved out of the family home at the age of 15 and left school two years later to work as a legal secretary in Reading, Berkshire.
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Siobhan Baillie attended a law school at weekends, and qualified as a family law solicitor in 2010.
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Siobhan Baillie worked as the head of policy and communications for the charity, OnePlusOne.
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Siobhan Baillie was a councillor in the London Borough of Camden from 2014 to 2018, representing the ward of Frognal and Fitzjohns.
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Siobhan Baillie stood for the Bermondsey and Old Southwark seat at the 2017 general election.
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Siobhan Baillie had previously unsuccessfully sought selection for the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency for the same election, and for the Barnet and Camden London Assembly seat at the 2016 election.
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Siobhan Baillie was selected as the Conservative candidate for Stroud on 31 July 2018.
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Siobhan Baillie supported the UK remaining within the EU in the 2016 UK EU membership referendum, but during her 2019 election campaign indicated that she now supported Brexit, to honour the result of the referendum.
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Siobhan Baillie has been a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee since March 2020.
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In July 2021, Siobhan Baillie commented that she opposed the removal of the Blackboy Clock in Stroud as she felt that it was important to leave all statues to "reflect our country's journey in the 20th and 21st centuries toward equality" but did support adding "factual information" to the statue to provide education.