28 Facts About Victoria Borwick

Victoria Borwick married Jamie Borwick on 20 March 1981, who succeeded his uncle in 2007 as the 5th Baron Borwick and entered the House of Lords in 2013 as one of the 92 elected hereditary peers.

Thomas Victoria Borwick is a digital media strategist for the Conservative Party.

Victoria Borwick organised the Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fairs as director from 1990 to 2001, and in 2002 was recruited to assist International Fine Art Expositions' New International Fine Art Fair in New York City.

In September 1999, Victoria Borwick was chosen as Conservative mayoral candidate Steve Norris' running mate and potential deputy mayor for the 2000 London Mayoral election.

Victoria Borwick was given a place on the Conservative Party list for the London Assembly, although unsuccessful in getting elected.

Victoria Borwick was elected to Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council in May 2002 as Councillor for the Abingdon Ward.

Victoria Borwick became Director of Income Generation and Marketing for the Conservative Party in October 2002, with the aim of increasing revenue from the party's supporter base.

Victoria Borwick made the shortlist but was not one of the final two in the selection, which included Steve Norris who received the nomination.

Victoria Borwick spoke subsequently at the 2003 Conservative Party Conference in support of Norris.

Victoria Borwick assisted the think tank Open Europe from 2009 to 2015 as a member of its Advisory Board.

Victoria Borwick announced her candidacy for the nomination for the 2008 mayoral election in July 2006.

The Mayoral selection resumed in summer 2007, and Victoria Borwick was one of the final four candidates shortlisted.

Victoria Borwick finished second in the ballot, receiving 1,869 votes compared to the winner Boris Johnson's 15,661 ballots.

Victoria Borwick later acted as a consultant in Johnson's successful campaign.

Victoria Borwick was elected to the London Assembly as one of three London-wide members for the Conservatives after the 2008 election.

Victoria Borwick had been placed second on the Conservative list for the election after unsuccessfully seeking to become a prospective parliamentary candidate.

On 13 March 2015, Victoria Borwick was selected as the Conservative PPC for the Kensington constituency at the 2015 general election.

On 7 May 2015, Victoria Borwick was elected as Member for Kensington with 18,199 votes.

Victoria Borwick resigned as Deputy Mayor on 13 May 2015, being replaced by fellow Assembly Member, Roger Evans, and stood down from the Assembly on 16 September 2015, with Kemi Badenoch appointed to her seat.

The Sunday Telegraph revealed in June 2015 that Victoria Borwick was "topping up her Parliamentary salary with tens of thousands of pounds in public money from two additional elected roles", in contrast to the practice of other MPs who, despite acting as London councillors, had given up their allowances to avoid taking multiple salaries on the public purse.

Victoria Borwick assisted the eurosceptic think tank Open Europe from 2009, being a Member of the Advisory Board until 2015.

Victoria Borwick publicly supported Brexit in the 2016 referendum and, with her son, Thomas Victoria Borwick, campaigned for Vote Leave.

Victoria Borwick was one of over 70 signatories to an open letter from Conservative Members of Parliament to the BBC in March 2017, criticising the broadcaster's coverage of Brexit and accusing it of being "unable to break out of pre-referendum pessimism" by ignoring "economic good news" since the referendum.

Victoria Borwick, who serves as President of the British Antique Dealers' Association, told the House of Commons in 2016 "any ban on antique ivory is cultural vandalism".

Victoria Borwick restated her mission to keep the ivory trade alive in 2019.

On 31 May 2017, Victoria Borwick participated alongside rival parliamentary candidates at a local hustings in Notting Hill, at which, according to the London Evening Standard, she was repeatedly heckled and booed by constituents.

Victoria Borwick did not attend the subsequent constituency hustings on 5 June 2017 in Earl's Court, an absence that was mocked by the Evening Standard.

Victoria Borwick lost by 20 votes to Labour, which won the Kensington seat for the first time.