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| Karen Bradley to replace John Whittingdale as culture secretary | Karen Bradley to replace John Whittingdale as culture secretary |
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| Home Office minister Karen Bradley has been named as the new culture secretary in Theresa May’s first cabinet, succeeding John Whittingdale. | Home Office minister Karen Bradley has been named as the new culture secretary in Theresa May’s first cabinet, succeeding John Whittingdale. |
| Bradley, a former chartered accountant, arrived in Downing Street on Thursday to be given the new role by May in her first full day as prime minister. | Bradley, a former chartered accountant, arrived in Downing Street on Thursday to be given the new role by May in her first full day as prime minister. |
| Related: Theresa May brings Andrea Leadsom into government as environment secretary - live | Related: Theresa May brings Andrea Leadsom into government as environment secretary - live |
| Bradley, the Tory MP for Staffordshire Moorlands who was elected to parliament in 2010, lacks the extensive experience of her predecessor, who spent a decade as chair of the Commons culture, media and sport select committee. | Bradley, the Tory MP for Staffordshire Moorlands who was elected to parliament in 2010, lacks the extensive experience of her predecessor, who spent a decade as chair of the Commons culture, media and sport select committee. |
| But Whittingdale was something of an exception in that regard, and lack of experience in the sector has rarely been seen as a barrier to previous incumbents of the post. | But Whittingdale was something of an exception in that regard, and lack of experience in the sector has rarely been seen as a barrier to previous incumbents of the post. |
| Bradley, 46, voted to remain in the European Union, telling her constituents in an open letter that the “positive, patriotic [and] passionate response” was to vote to stay within the EU. | |
| After standing down from his post earlier on Thursday, Whittingdale said he wished his successor well. | After standing down from his post earlier on Thursday, Whittingdale said he wished his successor well. |
| Has been a privilege to serve as Culture Secretary. I wish my successor every success & will continue to support creative industries | Has been a privilege to serve as Culture Secretary. I wish my successor every success & will continue to support creative industries |
| A Manchester City fan who has several times declared free tickets from the Football Association on her register of MPs’ interests, lists her hobbies in Who’s Who as “travel, wine tasting, cooking [and] puzzles”. | |
| She will be presumably have been relieved, then, that the BBC’s overhaul of its online recipe database was not quite as radical as it first appeared. | |
| Instances in which she tackled the big media issues of the day, however, appeared at first sight rather thin on the ground. The website They Work For You reported that Bradley voted for equal gay rights and same sex marriage, and for a wholly elected House of Lords. | |
| Characterised as one of “Dave’s dolls” by the Times in the early months of David Cameron’s leadership of the Conservative party, Bradley had a late conversion to politics when the company she worked for, KPMG, seconded her to advise the Tories on tax policy in 2002. | |
| “I was inspired by Michael Howard in particular,” she told the paper. “After seven months I went back to KPMG, but it was too late. I was hooked.” | |
| She gave up her job when she started a family and unsuccessfully stood in Manchester Withington in the 2005 general election. | |
| She was given the job on Thursday just over a year after Whittingdale’s appointment just over year ago was hailed as a “declaration of war” on the BBC by one newspaper. | |
| He oversaw a government review of the future of the BBC, which is still to be completed, and faced questions asked about his suitability to decide press regulation after revelations about his relationship with a sex worker. | He oversaw a government review of the future of the BBC, which is still to be completed, and faced questions asked about his suitability to decide press regulation after revelations about his relationship with a sex worker. |
| But despite fears over what it would mean for the BBC, the corporation broadly welcomed the government’s white paper on its future, published in May. | But despite fears over what it would mean for the BBC, the corporation broadly welcomed the government’s white paper on its future, published in May. |
| There remains, however, the huge financial burden of paying the £700m-plus cost of free licence fees for over-75s after last year’s controversial funding settlement with the government. | There remains, however, the huge financial burden of paying the £700m-plus cost of free licence fees for over-75s after last year’s controversial funding settlement with the government. |
| Whittingdale was later given a “guard of honour” by staff as he left the DCMS for the last time. | Whittingdale was later given a “guard of honour” by staff as he left the DCMS for the last time. |
| Sad to be leaving @dcms I could not have asked for more fantastic team pic.twitter.com/tUAQCih1sp | Sad to be leaving @dcms I could not have asked for more fantastic team pic.twitter.com/tUAQCih1sp |