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Maurice Bradley | |
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![]() Bradley in 2022 | |
Member of the Legislative Assembly for East Londonderry | |
Assumed office May 2016 | |
Preceded by | Gregory Campbell |
Member of Coleraine Borough Council | |
In office 1994 –22 May 2014 | |
Preceded by | Marie McAllister |
Succeeded by | Council abolished |
Constituency | Coleraine East |
Personal details | |
Born | Coleraine,Northern Ireland | 5 April 1954
Nationality | British |
Political party | Democratic Unionist Party |
Maurice Bradley (born 5 April 1954) is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician,serving as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry since 2016. Bradley is the DUP's policing spokesperson. [1] He was previously a Coleraine Councillor for the Coleraine East DEA from 1994 to 2014. [2]
Bradley was first elected to Coleraine Borough Council in a 1994 by-election,representing the Coleraine East District,and was subsequently re-elected in 2001.
At the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election,he was one of three DUP candidates standing in East Londonderry,though Bradley himself was not elected.
He was re-elected as a Councillor in the 2005 local elections. Bradley served twice as mayor of Coleraine,firstly between 2007-2008 and later between 2011 and 2012. [3]
Bradley stood for the Northern Ireland Assembly in the 2016 election,after Gregory Campbell stood down and was elected,in the first count,topping the poll.
Bradley was criticised in 2018 for sharing a post that described London mayor Sadiq Khan as "the enemy within" and defending a far-right march in Poland. [4]