Andrew Bridgen wife-British politician, Andrew Bridgen was born on October 28th, 1964 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.
In Swadlincote, Derbyshire, he first attended Netherseal Junior School before moving on to the public comprehensive The Pingle School. He continued his education by majoring in genetics and psychology at the University of Nottingham, where he received a degree in biological sciences.
Bridgen enrolled in the Royal Marines’ officer training program after graduating, but he never finished it. He stepped in during the “dirty tricks row” in May 2009 concerning a councilor who had given Conservative support to ensure that a village hall was constructed in the event that an independent election candidate resigned.
Instead of blaming the specific councilors implicated, he criticized the “intransigence of certain unelected officials at the very top of the county council.”
His intervention was attacked by the council’s Labour and Conservative leaders, and the council solicitor wrote to request an explanation.
Following a police inquiry, Cllr. Nicholas Rushton took a temporary leave of absence. Rushton continued to lead the county council while denying any misconduct.
The first Conservative MP to represent the region in thirteen years, Andrew Bridgen was chosen as the Conservative candidate for North West Leicestershire in the general election of 2010. Since the last member of Congress, David Taylor, passed away suddenly on Boxing Day 2009, the seat has been vacant.
Bridgen joined the Regulatory Reform Select Committee in July 2010 and has remained a member of the committee for the duration of his time in parliament. He served on the Joint Committee and the Liaison Committee for the Draft Deregulation Bill, and he was a member of the Advisory Panel for Professor Ragnar Löfstedt’s report on health and safety (Commons).
Bridgen was accused of sexual assault on June 9, 2011, which resulted in his arrest by the Metropolitan Police in London and subsequent release on bail. After the claims were proven false a week later, police said that no further acti on would be taken against Bridgen or the lady in question, Annabelle Fuller, a former UKIP employee.
Bridgen claimed that poor pay was discouraging competent MPs from running for office and that they were being forced to ask their families to make sacrifices in a January 2013 appearance on BBC Radio’s PM show. Bridgen claimed to be one of the few MPs prepared to discuss the subject of MPs’ low salaries in public.
The Environment Agency issued a warning to AB Produce, of which Bridgen served as director, in August 2014, stating that it risked losing its license if it did not eliminate a “urine-like” odor from two “lagoons” of rotting vegetable matter on the property.
Due to its proximity to the proposed High Speed 2 (HS2) route—100 feet (30 meters) away—Bridgen sold his constituency home in Appleby Magna in 2015 for $2 million as part of a government High Speed 2 (HS2) compensation program.
In May 2016, Bridgen came under fire for claiming nearly £25,000 in costs in a single year for lodging in London hotels. He claimed that staying in hotels was less expensive than owning a home and that, if it ended late at night, he could easily stroll to Parliament.
There were “no rough sleepers” in North West Leicestershire, Bridgen claimed in Parliament in March 2018. The manager of the Leicester-based organization Action Homeless, Mark Grant, answered that, contrary to what the official statistics indicated, North West Leicestershire was the region of the county where the organisation received the greatest number of presentations.
Pink News has charged Bridgen with making homophobic remarks. Throughout his time in the House of Representatives, he has also been charged with making anti-Semitic remarks. Each accusation has been refuted by him. On August 7, 2018, Bridgen backed remarks made by Boris Johnson on some Muslim women wearing burkas in Britain.
Bridgen wrongly claimed that he and any other British citizen was entitled to an Irish passport as part of a special arrangement with the Republic of Ireland on October 14, 2018, on the Stephen Nolan Show on BBC 5 Live radio.
In the 2019 contest for the Conservative Party’s leadership, Bridgen supported Boris Johnson. After backing Conservative MP Jacob Rhees Mogg’s remarks that Grenfell Tower fire victims should have realized the London Fire Brigaden’s advice to “stay put” was erroneous in November 2019, Bridgen issued an apology.
A High Court judge found Bridgen to have misled under oath over assertions he made in court regarding his family’s company, AB Produce. It was discovered that he persuaded a police investigator to go into his brother, a company director, on fictitious fraud claims.
Who is Andrew Bridgen married to?
In 2000, Bridgen married Jackie, and the two of them had two boys. From 2007 until she lost her seat in 2011, Jackie served as a Conservative councilor for the North West Leicestershire District Council’s Oakthorpe and Donisthorpe wards.
In 2012, Bridgen and Jackie were divorced andn 2017, Bridgen wed opera soprano Nevena Pavlovic of Serbia.
