Anna Soubry

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Anna Soubry is the British Conservative Party MP for Broxtowe and the UK minister of state for defence personnel, welfare and veterans.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag Just over a year later, she was appointed parliamentary under-secretary at the Ministry of Defence (MOD).[1] In the July 2014 reshuffle, she was promoted to minister of state at the MOD.[2]

Background

She studied law at Birmingham University and went on to train as a barrister. Soubry worked at Grampian TV in Aberdeen as a reporter and presenter on North Tonight and at Central TV as a reporter on Central News East. She also worked as a criminal barrister in Nottingham and practised until becoming an MP. [3]

Soubry was parliamentary private secretary to health minister, Simon Burns from November 2010 to September 2012. [3]

Notes

  1. Ministerial appointments: 7 October 2013, Prime Minister's Office, 7 October 2013.
  2. Ministerial appointments: July 2014, Prime Minister's Office, 15 July 2014.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Anna Soubry GOV.UK, accessed 10 October 2014