Julia Goldsworthy

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Julia Goldsworthy MP
Julia Goldsworthy
Member of Parliament
for Falmouth and Camborne
Incumbent
Assumed office 
May 5, 2005
Preceded by Candy Atherton
Majority 1,866 (3.9%)
Born September 10, 1978 (1978-09-10) (age 29)
Camborne, Cornwall
Nationality British
Political party Liberal Democrats
Alma mater Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Profession Politician

Julia Anne Goldsworthy (born September 10, 1978) is a British politician. She is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne and shadows the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in the House of Commons.

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[edit] Early life

Julia Goldsworthy was born in Camborne, Cornwall, her mother being a local teacher, and she was educated locally at the St Meriadoc Primary School on Cranfield Road in Camborne before winning a scholarship to the independent Truro School. She graduated from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge with a BA (Hons) degree, in History. She spent one year at Daiichi University of Economics in the Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Economics at Birkbeck College, London.

In 2003, she worked for a year as a researcher for the Liberal Democrat MP for Truro and St Austell, Matthew Taylor. In 2004, she was appointed as a regeneration officer with the Carrick District Council where she worked until her election to Westminster.

[edit] Parliamentary career

She was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 General Election for Falmouth and Camborne when she ousted the sitting Labour MP Candy Atherton. Goldsworthy won the seat with a majority of 1,886, becoming the youngest MP in England. She made her maiden speech on May 19, 2005.[1] Her election in 2005 meant that the Liberal Democrats hold all the Cornish seats for the first time since 1923. She names former Cornish MP David Penhaligon as her greatest hero.

In Parliament, she was appointed as a spokeswoman on health by Charles Kennedy in 2005, and promoted in 2006 by new leader Sir Menzies Campbell, becoming Vince Cable's deputy in the Treasury team, and she was a member of the Public Administration select committee from 2005 until mid-2006[1]. She is the chairwoman of the all party rowing group (she is a keen Cornish pilot gig rower) and the vice chair of the group on Qatar.

[edit] The Games

Julia Goldsworthy competed on the 2006 series of the Channel 4 show The Games where she was runner-up. She raised money for the Cornish Air Ambulance. The events she competed in were:

Her Opposition on the female side were Amanda Lamb, Javine Hylton, Michelle Gayle and Bernie Nolan.

[edit] Cornish Facebook petition

On 14 May 2008 in the House of Commons debates, Julia Goldsworthy presented a petition on behalf of many thousands of people living in Cornwall who would like to see Cornwall be recognised as a network region on Facebook. Despite the fact that Cornwall has a population of over 500,000, the nearest geographical area represented on Facebook is the city of Plymouth in Devon. Some 14,500 people are members of the group and hundreds have added their names to the petition that they would like presented before Parliament. There are many respects in which people feel that Cornwall's unique needs and identity are subsumed in wider zones. The petition read "Cornwall should have its own Network Region on Facebook. Cornwall possesses one of the world's oldest natural borders, its own language and flag, and a population of 500,000 people. We therefore believe that the owners of Facebook should now recognise this by introducing the Cornwall Network region."[2][3]

[edit] Note on HoC Public Administration Select Committee Membership

  1. ^ See current Membership List Committee Websiteand previous Committee Reports.
  2. ^ Julia Golsworthy - Facebook petition for Cornwall
  3. ^ Julia Goldsworthy - Facebook

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Candy Atherton		 Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne
2005 – present		 Incumbent
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