Friday, 14 June 2019
2301 Jenny Willott
Constituency : Cardiff Central 2005-15
Jenny took Cardiff Central from Labour at the second attempt.
Jenny was born in Wimbledon. She was educated at Uppingham School, Durham University and the London School of Economics. She became chief researcher for Lembit Opik. She was then CEO of Victim Support South Wales.
Jenny held a number of spokesmanships including youth affairs, justice and work and pensions and was deputy chief whip.
In the coalition government Jenny was parliamentary aide to Chris Huhne but resigned in order to vote against tuition fees. She became an assistant whip in 2012 and covered Jo Swinson's post in the Business Department while she was on maternity leave in 2013-14. She resigned as a whip in 2014.
Jenny was comfortably defeated by Labour in 2015. She was critical of the election campaign and Nick Clegg's performance in the leaders' debate in particular.
Jenny now works as Director of Enterprise and Innovation at St Mary's University, Twickenham. She received an OBE in 2018.
She is now 45.
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