Episode 1898
Penny Mordaunt
Thu, 2022-Jul-14 01:17 UTC
Length - 3:07
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With 528,656 views on Wednesday, 13 July 2022 our article of the day is Penny Mordaunt.
Penelope Mary Mordaunt (; born 4 March 1973) is a British politician who has been serving as Minister of State for Trade Policy since 2021. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing Portsmouth North since 2010. She previously served as Secretary of State for International Development between 2017 and 2019 and Secretary of State for Defence in 2019 under Theresa May's Cabinet.
Mordaunt was elected to the House of Commons in May 2010. Under the coalition government of David Cameron, she served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Decentralisation from 2014 to 2015. After the 2015 general election, Cameron promoted her to Minister of State for the Armed Forces, the first woman to hold the post. Mordaunt supported Brexit in the 2016 referendum on EU membership. Following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister, Mordaunt was appointed Minister of State for Disabled People, Work and Health. In 2017, following the resignation of Priti Patel, she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development. She also served as Minister for Women and Equalities from 2018 to 2019.
In May 2019, Mordaunt was appointed Secretary of State for Defence, replacing Gavin Williamson, becoming the first woman to hold the post. She served as Defence Secretary for 85 days before being removed from the position by new Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In the February 2020 reshuffle, she re-entered government as Paymaster General. In the 2021 reshuffle, she was appointed Minister of State for Trade Policy.
Following Johnson's resignation in July 2022, Mordaunt announced that she was running in the leadership race to become the next leader of the Conservative Party and therefore the next prime minister.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:17 UTC on Thursday, 14 July 2022.
For the full current version of the article, see Penny Mordaunt on Wikipedia.
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