Keith Bradley
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The Right Honourable Keith John Charles Bradley (born 17 May 1950) is a British politician and the former Labour MP for Manchester Withington from 1987 until 2005.
He first became an MP for the constituency in 1987. After the 1997 general election he became a junior minister at the Department of Social Security, and then became Deputy Chief Whip in 1998. He was a junior minister in the Home Office for Criminal Justice, Sentencing, and Law Reform from 2001 to 2002, and then a backbench MP and member of the Health Select Committee. He was a member of the Privy Council. In a shock defeat, Bradley's seat was taken by the John Leech (politician) for the Liberal Democrats on the 5 May general election, with a swing of nearly 20%.
Bradley and his wife, Rhona Bradley, have three children.