Julia Goldsworthy

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Julia Goldsworthy MP

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 Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the House of Commons.

Julia Goldsworthy was born in Camborne, Cornwall, her mother being a local teacher, and she was educated locally at the St Meriadoc Primary School in Camborne before winning a scholarship to Truro School. She graduated from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honours, in history, 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.

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: