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Louise Mensch
MP
Member of Parliament
for Corby
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byPhil Hope
Majority1,951 (3.6%)
Personal details
Born (1971-06-28) 28 June 1971 (age 53)
NationalityEnglish
Political partyConservative
SpousePeter Mensch
ChildrenThree
ResidenceOundle
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
ProfessionAuthor
Websitewww.louisebagshawe.net/
www.louisebagshawebooks.com/

Louise Daphne Mensch (born Louise Daphne Bagshawe, 28 June 1971) is a British author and Conservative Party politician. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Corby, having won the seat at the 2010 general election. She is also a well-known author of 'chick lit' fiction, writing under her maiden name.

Biography

Mensch was born in London in 1971; her family moved to the country when she was seven. She was educated at Woldingham School, a Catholic girls' boarding school in Surrey, and was named 'Young Poet of the Year' in 1989 at the age of 18.[2] After reading English literature at Christ Church, Oxford [3], Mensch worked as a press officer with EMI Records, and then a marketing official with Sony. Her first novel, Career Girls, was published in 1995 and has been followed by 13 subsequent works in the "chick lit" genre aimed at young women. She has defended chick-lit against allegations, specifically by psychologist Susan Quilliam that the books cause irrationally high expectations which "ruin readers' lives" by saying that it merely makes readers raise their standards.[4]

At the age of fourteen she had joined the Conservative Party, after being inspired by then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,[5] but in 1996 she briefly switched to Tony Blair's Labour Party saying she believed him to be "socially liberal but an economic Tory".[6] By 1997 she had returned to the Conservatives and helped her mother, Daphne, win a seat in East Sussex County Council from the Liberal Democrats.[5] In 2001, Mensch co-founded the Oxonian Society with Joseph Pascal and HRH Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.[7]

Political career

Bagshawe (as she then was) was placed on the A-List of Conservative candidates in 2007. This move was criticised by David Burrowes, from the right-wing Cornerstone Group of Conservative MPs, as favouring minor celebrities, such as Bagshawe, over local candidates when selecting prospective parliamentary candidates.[8] In October 2006 she was selected to stand in Corby.[9] As part of her campaigning for the 2010 election, she appeared on Question Time[2] and BBC One's The Big Questions.[10] She believes the foxhunting ban should be repealed on civil liberties grounds and that it was also a waste of Parliamentary time.[11]

An article in The Sunday Telegraph in 2009 reported "Some high-profile women are already installed in winnable seats: Louise Bagshawe, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel, Laura Sandys and Joanne Cash will all make colourful additions to the Tory benches."[12]
John Crace's "Digested read, digested" summary of her book Desire was "Vote for Louise. If only to stop her writing."[13]

Mensch was elected in the 2010 general election with a majority of 1,951, defeating Labour incumbent Phil Hope.

In June, 2010, she was elected by other Conservative MPs to serve on the Select Committee for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.[14]

She was a guest on Have I Got News for You on 22 April 2011. Her contribution was briefly censored because she alluded to the identity of a footballer involved in a super-injunction case.[15]

On 19 July 2011, in the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, Mensch took part in the questioning of James and Rupert Murdoch over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. The Economist, in one of their political blogs, named Mensch as the "surprise star" of the hearing, whose "sharp, precise, coolly scornful questions" contrasted with her "waffling, pompous" fellow committee members.[16]

Personal life

Louise Bagshawe married Peter Mensch, manager of Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, in June 2011.[17] She has three children from her previous marriage to property speculator Anthony LoCicero.[5][18] She is the sister of Tilly Bagshawe, a freelance journalist who published Adored in July 2005, and has a younger sister Alice and a brother, James.[19]

Bibliography

  • Career Girls (1995)
  • The Movie (1996)
  • Tall Poppies (1997)
  • Venus Envy (1998)
  • A Kept Woman (2000)
  • When She Was Bad... (2001)
  • The Devil You Know (2003)
  • Monday's Child (2004)
  • Tuesday's Child (2005)
  • Sparkles (2006)
  • Glamour (2007)
  • Glitz (2008)
  • Passion (2009)
  • Desire (2010)
  • Destiny (2011)

References

  1. ^ "I cant believe Im a Tory". The Times. London. 2006-05-14.
  2. ^ a b "Question Time:This week's panel". BBC News. 10-January- 2008. Retrieved 2010-05-16. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/ccm-09.pdf. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ Louise Mensch (2011-07--08). "Chick-lit doesn't damage its readers, it just makes them raise their standards". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2011-07--08. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  5. ^ a b c "Louise Bagshawe profile".
  6. ^ "'He sees women as equals'". London: BBC News. 2006-06-05. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  7. ^ http://www.oxoniansociety.com/About.asp
  8. ^ "'Beautiful' Tory list under fire". The Guardian. 2006-04-19. Retrieved 2008-04-28. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ 'Chick-lit' author to stand at next general election, Northampton Chronicle, 13 October 2006. Retrieved on 28 April 2008.
  10. ^ "BBC One Programmes - The Big Questions, Series 2, Episode 21". BBC. 14 Jun 2009. Retrieved 7-May-2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  11. ^ Louise Bagshawe, ConservativeHome, 14 June 2006. Retrieved on 14 June 2006.
  12. ^ Melissa Kite "The softly, softly fight for the women's vote at the general election", Sunday Telegraph, 25 October 2009
  13. ^ Crace, John (13-4-2010). "Desire by Louise Bagshawe". London: Guardian Newspapers. Retrieved 22-11-2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  14. ^ "Westminster select committees: Labour & Tory membership". Financial Times. June 24, 2010. Retrieved 29-Jun-2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  15. ^ . Daily Mail. 23 April 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1379727/Gagging-order-judges-free-speech-privacy-celebrities.html. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ^ . The Economist. 19 July 2011 http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2011/07/british-press-and-phone-hacking-scandal-8. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ^ Walker, Tim (3 June 2011). "Tory MP Louise Bagshawe secretly marries Metallica manager Peter Mensch". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  18. ^ Walker, Tim (27 May 2007). "Chick lit Tory candidate Louise Bagshawe splits from husband". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
  19. ^ Scott, Caroline (6 March 2005). "Relative Values: Tilly and Louise Bagshawe". The Sunday Times.
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