Elizabeth Berridge, Baroness Berridge
Elizabeth Rose Berridge, Baroness Berridge ( born March 22, 1972 in Rutland, England) is a British lawyer and politician ( Conservative Party ) and Life Peeress.
Life and career
Berridge was born in Rutland County and went to school there. She attended the Vale of Catmose College and Rutland College in Oakham. At Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, she studied law (Law) and was trained at the Inns of Court School of Law in London for the Barrister. She has worked as a barrister ( Admission 1996), before she was appointed Executive Director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship organization in 2005, which it remained until 2011.
In the general election in 2005 Berridge went to Stockport in the constituency for the Conservative Party.
She is a member of the Trusteeship Council ( Trustee ) and Director of Kainos Community, a charity organization that Rehabilitionseinrichtungen operates in three prisons. Berridge heard ( Advisory Council ) of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East to the Advisory Board, the. Working by Reverend Canon Andrew White, the support " Vicar of Baghdad " (Vicar of Baghdad ) She is also director and member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ) of the Charities More than gold.
Berridge lived temporarily in Ghana and Trinidad and Tobago.
Membership in the House of Lords
Berridge was appointed Life Peeress as Baroness Berridge, of the Vale of Catmose in the County of Rutland on January 18, 2011. On January 20, 2011, she was officially introduced with the support of Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich and Patricia Morris, Baroness Morris of Bolton to the House of Lords.
She is the youngest woman currently (as of June 2012) the House of Lords heard. In order to cover their expenses in connection with their duties in the House of Lords, it receives financial support from a number of friends and family members.
As subjects of political interest calls on the website of the House of Lords multiculturalism, young people and low income earners. As states of interest they are on Ghana, Iraq, Nigeria and Trinidad and Tobago.
In October 2011, she asked a parliamentary question on the current development in Egypt. After a parliamentary investigation Berridge expressed in March 2012 to practice their faith critically about the possibilities of Christians in the United Kingdom.
Berridge is present regularly in session.
Work in the public
From 16 to 20 September 2011 she visited Israel and the Palestinian territories, where they, together with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor and representatives of the UN, the FCO and the Office of the Quartet. She then attended from September 25 to October 2, 2011 in Egypt, where she met with leaders of Christians and Muslims, as well as representatives of the FCO and the EU.
In a blog she criticized in November 2011, the plans of the party activists Tim Montgomerie own, external staff department set up for the maintenance of relationships with key stakeholders and communities (External Relations Unit). In November 2011, Berridge took as a sign of their attachment to their College and their home, at the ceremony of Catmose College in part, in which the students of the past year were presented.
Berridge took in February 2012 at a conference titled An Evening With Baroness Berridge part where they talked about the issue of social justice.
Within the project peers in schools they visited in March 2012, the Melton Vale Post 16 Centre.
Title / styling
- Miss Elizabeth Berridge (1972-2011)
- The Baroness Berridge (2011 - )