Nicola Blackwood

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nicola Blackwood
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Oct 16, 1979(1979-10-16)
Age	45
Birthplace	Johannesburg
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Gauteng
Horoscope	Libra

Nicola Blackwood Biography

Nicola Blackwood is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on October 16, 1979 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Nicola Claire Blackwood, Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (born 16 October 1979) is a British politician in the Conservative Party. She is a Baroness Blackwood served as a member of parliament (MP) in the constituencies of Abingdon West and Oxford West and Abingdon from 2010 until 2017. Her name is also used as her married name , Nicola Blackwood-Bate, since the year 2016.

She was elected a Member of Parliament in the 2010 election , with an overwhelming majority of 176 votes, beating those who were Liberal Democrats, who had been in the seat since 1997. Her seat was vacated during the election of 2017 to Liberal Democrats, who won the seat back with a majority of 816. In her time as a MP she chaired by the Science and Technology Select Committee during the second Cameron ministerial term and was the health minister’s junior during the first May ministerial.

In 2015, student activists criticised Blackwood for her support of fox hunting and she later confirmed pro-hunting group Vote-OK assisted with her election campaign during the 2015 general election. In June 2015, Blackwood was elected to the chairmanship of the Science & Technology Select Committee.

At the 2015 general election, Blackwood retained her seat with a majority of 9,582 which was in part due to the national swing of voters against the Liberal Democrats.

Blackwood was elected the seat at the general election of 2010 with 171 votes in an 6.9 percent swing towards those who voted for the Conservatives over her party, the Liberal Democrats. In the latter part of 2010 she was elected as a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee and was the secretary of the All- Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development. She was part of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission and also held a spot in the Council of Advisors for ZANE the charity that aims to help the elderly in Zimbabwe.

Nicola Blackwood Net Worth

Nicola Blackwood is one of the richest Politician from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nicola Blackwood 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Blackwood is an active participant in the Conservative Christian Fellowship since 2005 and has a regular attendance in The Church of England’s St Aldate’s in Oxford.

Blackwood was selected as the Conservative prospective candidate for the parliamentary seat of Oxford West and Abingdon at an open primary held on 13 November 2006. The changes to the boundaries that took the picture in 2010 were believed to favor the Conservatives and resulted in 10,000 city voters (including numerous students) moving into in the Oxford East constituency and more rural voters being added.

Blackwood voted against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in 2013 after indicating to many students and constituents that she would support the measure, for which she was criticised by Oxford University Student Union. Blackwood said she had voted against the final draft of the Bill because she was not satisfied with the protection afforded religious freedoms.

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On 10 January 2019, Blackwood was appointed to replace Lord O’Shaughnessy as a junior minister for innovation in the Department of Health and Social Care serving in the House of Lords with the formal title of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health and she would thus be created a life peer. Blackwood resigned from her ministerial position in the House of Lords in February 2020 to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to pursue time with her family.

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