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The Honourable. Laura Jane Sandys[1] (born 1964) is a British Conservative Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet since the general election on 6 May 2010. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 References 4 External links // Early life The daughter of Duncan Sandys (through his second marriage to Marie-Claire), Sandys was born in 1964 and christened on 17 July 1964 in the Crypt Chapel of the Palace of Westminster.[2] Her father was a Member of Parliament, and later a life peer, who served as Defence Secretary in Harold Macmillan's government and was also the son-in-law of Winston Churchill (through his first marriage to Diana Churchill).[3] Career In the 1980s Sandys was a Director of Barter Group, an organisation doing business by exchange of goods or services rather than cash in the former Eastern Bloc.[4] She moved on to lead the Parliamentary Unit at the Consumers' Association. Sandys has also worked in public relations; since 1992 she worked through Laura Sandys Associates, also known by its three letter acronym LSA. She later became Head of Communications at the Shopping Hours Reform Council, an organisation which promotes employees not having to work on Sundays.[5] She is also a journalist, also writing for newspapers, and a commentator appearing on television and radio on a wide range of issues, including urban development and the Iraq war. She contributed the opening chapter Paul Cornish's book The War in Iraq (October 2004).[6] Sandys completed an Open University course on Environment and Development in 1993 and is currently a trustee of the Open University Foundation, which was established in 1973 as an independent charitable trust to further the objects of the University. She is an executive director and chair of the board at openDemocracy;[7] her biography on that site describes her as: "having experience of political structures across Europe, Turkey, South America and the US". The site also states that she has worked as a journalist and policy strategist in Washington D.C.[8] She was appointed a Trustee of the Civic Trust on 18 July 2000 and is a member of its Policy Committee.[9] and was also a Senior Research Associate for the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College London.[10] Before the 2005 general election, Sandys applied to be selected as a Conservative candidate in fourteen parliamentary constituencies[11] and was shortlisted in Surrey Heath and Arundel and South Downs. She missed out, however, to Michael Gove and Nick Herbert respectively. With a group of other women Conservatives, Sandys signed a letter in support of David Cameron's election as Conservative Party leader which was printed in The Daily Telegraph in August 2005.[12] Sandys nominated Christabel Flight in the May 2006 Westminster City Council elections.[13] In 2006, Sandys was placed on the new 'A-list' of Conservative candidates ahead of the 2010 general election.[14] In October of 2006, she was selected to stand as the Conservative candidate for Thanet South, defeating Mark MacGregor, the party's previous candidate at the 2001 and 2005 elections. The constituency was then held by Stephen Ladyman for the Labour Party. She lives locally within the constituency in the town of Ramsgate with her partner, Randolph Kent whom she married on 3 September 2007 in Ramsgate, Kent.[15][16] An article in The Sunday Telegraph in October 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."[17] In the 2010 General Election, Sandys gained the South Thanet seat from Stephen Ladyman with 48% of the popular vote. References ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59418/notices/1118281/from=2010-05-06;to=2010-05-19;all=returned+westminster/ ^ Auden at stanford.edu ^ Paul Waugh, Writer wins fight for Tory seat, Evening Standard, 6 July 2004. Evening Standard, 6 July 2004 ^ How it Works at bartergroup.com ^ Parliament publications/Hansard 1993 ^ The War in Iraq by Paul Cornish ^ OpenDemocracy ^ Laura Sandys at opendemocracy.net ^ Civic Trust ^ Centre for Defence Studies ^ UK Times Online ^ Daily Telegraph, 11 August 2005 ^ 2006 Westminster City Council elections at westminster.gov.uk ^ Conservativehome.blogs ^ Auden at stanford.edu ^ Laura Sandys - Profile ^ Melissa Kite "The softly, softly fight for the women's vote at the general election", The Sunday Telegraph, 25 October 2009 External links Conservativehome.blogs Laura Sandys campaign website Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded by Stephen Ladyman Member of Parliament for South Thanet 2010–present Incumbent