The Baroness Pidding | |
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President of the Northern Ireland Conservatives | |
Assumed office 2015 | |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 8 October 2015 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Solihull,England | January 13,1966
Political party | Northern Ireland Conservative |
Emma Samantha Pidding,Baroness Pidding, CBE (born 13 January 1966) is a British Conservative parliamentarian and member of the House of Lords.
Pidding was educated at Brudenell Secondary School for Girls (now Amersham School),and at Dr Challoner's High School,later becoming a bank clerk in Amersham,Buckinghamshire. [1]
A former Chiltern District Councillor and Chairman of the National Conservative Convention,she was created a Life Peer on 8 October 2015,taking the title Baroness Pidding,of Amersham in the County of Buckinghamshire . [2]
Pidding was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for voluntary political service in the 2014 New Year Honours. [3]
In November 2015,the Conservative Party closed down "Road Trip",an organisation to transport Conservative activists about the country by bus - Pidding was implicated in this process. The Conservative Future Youth Wing was closed as a result. [4] [5] Conservative Party member,activist and unsuccessful 2010 General Election candidate Mark Clarke's membership was cancelled "for life" on 18 November 2015 amid allegations of sexual assaults,drugs,bullying and the attempted blackmail of a Cabinet Minister,Robert Halfon.
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